Dr AnneMarie Brosnan
Research interests
Nineteenth century education in the US South; education during the Civil War and Reconstruction period; African American education in the US South; underground schooling; colonial education; missionary teachers; teacher education.
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Monographs
Brosnan, A. (expected 2024) A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople’s Education in North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction Period, 1861-1877. New York: Fordham University Press.
Book Chapters
Brosnan, A. (expected 2024) ‘Teaching History to Challenge Racism: An International Perspective’ in Mealy, T. and Bennett, H. eds., Equity in The Classroom: Essays on Curricular and Pedagogical Approaches to Empowering All Students. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing Inc.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Brosnan, A. (2019) ‘“To educate themselves”: Southern black teachers in North Carolina's schools for the freedpeople during the Civil War and Reconstruction period, 1862-1875”, American Nineteenth Century History, 20(3), 231-248.
Brosnan, A. (2016) ‘Representations of race and racism in the textbooks used in southern black schools during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861-1876’, Paedagogica Historica, 52(6), 718-733.
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Brosnan, A. (2022) ‘Teaching practice reports, 1915-1924’, in Hughes, B., Ní Bhroiméil, U., Ragan, B., eds., Studying Revolution: Accounts of Mary Immaculate College, 1918-1923. Limerick: Limerick City and County Council, 28-37.
Book Reviews
Brosnan, A. (2018) Educating the sons of sugar: Jefferson College and the creole planter class of south Louisiana by R. Eric Platt, reviewed in The Journal of Southern History, 84(4), 985-986.
Conference Presentations
Brosnan, A. (2020) ‘Behind Brick Walls: Examining the History of Mixed-Race Children in Irish Institutional Care during the Twentieth Century’, presented at the NISE Lunchtime Research Seminar, 17 Nov.
Brosnan, A. (2019) ‘Friends, Freedpeople, and the Struggle for Freedom in Reconstruction North Carolina, 1862 –1876’, presented at the Organization of American Historians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4-6 April.
Brosnan, A. (2016) ‘“If we got Learning – we Stole it”: Early Slave Literacy as an Instrument of Resistance in Antebellum North Carolina’, presented at the association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians, Madingley Hall, Cambridge, 28-30 October.
Brosnan, A. (2016) ‘The Forgotten Teachers: Northern Blacks and Former Slaves in North Carolina’s Schools for the Freed People, 1861-1876’, presented at the Irish and British Association of American Studies, Queens University Belfast, 7-9 April.
Brosnan, A. (2016) ‘“To Educate Themselves”: African American Teachers in North Carolina’s Schools for the Freed People, 1861-1876’, presented at the Irish History Students’ Association, NUI Galway, 20 February.
Brosnan, A. (2016) “‘Advice from an Old Friend’: Representations of Race and Racism in Freedmen's Textbooks During the Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861-1876”, presented at the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 7-10 January.
Brosnan, A. (2015) ‘Southern White Teachers in North Carolina’s Freedmen’s Schools during the Reconstruction era, 1865-1877’, presented at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, 16-20 April.
Invited Talks
Brosnan, A. (2024) ‘The role of religion in Irish primary education’, Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, 6 April.
Brosnan, A. (2017) ‘The education of the freed slaves in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction era’, History Graduate Research Seminar, NUI Galway, 15 March.
Brosnan, A. (2016) “Women who Dared?: Deconstructing the Dominant Narrative of Northern White Teachers in Southern Black Schools during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861-1876”, Institute for Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College, 11 May.
Funded Research
2016, Fulbright Scholar Award
2016, Archie K. Davis Fellowship, the North Caroliniana Society
2015, The Gilder Leherman Association of American History Fellowship
