Jill Anderson
- Education
MS, Information Studies, 2009
University of Texas at AustinPhD, US History, 2000 (minor: Women's and Gender History)
Rutgers University
- Specializations
Africana Studies; Communication (including Speech Communication and Journalism); Philosophy; Religious Studies; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Biography
Dr. Jill Anderson provides support for the Philosophy, Religious Studies, Communication and Africana Studies departments as well as the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her responsibilities include collection building, library instruction, and assisting students, staff, and faculty with research in those subject areas. She is an Associate Professor.
She is interested in creative instruction and primary source literacy across the humanities, and is a 2020 co-recipient of GSU’s Faculty Instructional Innovation Award.
Her research interests include US girls’ creative and intellectual history, US women’s and gender history, and cultural and literary history. Her current scholarly research focuses on girls’ career fiction from 1930-1970 with particular emphasis on careers in the arts.