Dr. Cassandra Yacovazzi
Title: Assistant Professor
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Phone: 941-359-4344
Email: cyacovazzi@usf.edu
Office: C243
Area of Interest: 19th and 20th century American women’s history and the intersection of gender, religion,
and popular culture.
Education
- Malone University, Canton, OH, BA
- Baylor University, Waco, TX, MA
- University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, PhD
Research
- Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- “Think Pink: How Mary Kay Built an Empire on Lipstick and Applause,” USF Sarasota-Manatee campus, Research Pecha Kucha (April 2019)
- Encyclopedia entry on “Katharine Drexel,” in American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming)
- “‘Are You Allowed to Read the Bible in a Convent?’: Protestant Perspectives on the Catholic Approach to Scripture in Convent Narratives, 1830-1860.” U.S. Catholic Historian 31, no. 3 (Summer 2013)
Awards
- American Society of Church History Book Prize Nomination for the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in the History of Christianity by a First-Time Author, 2019.
- Nomination for Postdoctoral Teaching Award, University of Missouri, 2018
- Kinder Dissertation Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2014
- Rome Seminar Scholarship and Stipend, University of Notre Dame, 2014
- Donald K. Anderson Teaching Assistant Award, University of Missouri, 2013
Teaching
- American History from 1877
- American History to 1877
- Research and Methods in History
- United States History, 1914-1945
- American History through Literature, 1865-1920
- Women and Politics in America
- History of Diversity in the US
- Religion in American History
- US, 1877-1914
Service
- Conducted annual assessment of History majors at the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus, reviewing student research papers and in-class essays
- Voting member of Academic Regulations Committee (ARC)
- Collaborator on American History dual enrollment program