Dorothy Pratt

Research Associate Professor
Office: 220 Gambrell Hall
(803) 777-8984
PrattD@mailbox.sc.edu

B.A. Vanderbilt University (1971)
M.A. Brigham Young University (anthropology) (1985)
M.A. University of Notre Dame (1995)
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame (1997)

Teaches nineteenth century American history and History of the American West.

Dr. Pratt recently published the book Shipshewana: An Indiana Amish Community, (through the Indiana University Press), which focused on issues of assimilation in a community that has successfully forestalled incorporation into a larger society.

Current Activities

Her Present project continues the theme of defining insider/outsider groups through a study of the Mississippi Constitutional Conventions of 1890.

Professor Pratt's c.v. is located here.

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