Ph.D. Candidate, History, Georgia State University

M.A., History, Georgia State University

B.A., History, University of California Los Angeles

 

Jodie Knapton is an oral historian with specialties in U.S. History, gender history, and religion. She started research endeavors and teaching in graduate school in 2003, focusing on programs such as Writing Across the Curriculum, Supplemental Instruction, history research and teaching assistantships. She has taught full-time at more than one college and university since 2008, while pursuing a final terminal degree and her own original oral history research. She won a Regents Scholarship, the Mary Ritter Beard award at UCLA for original research on women in history, an Atlanta Pride Community Builders Award, PFLAG Foundation Scholarship, Phi Theta Kappa honored faculty member (GPC), professor of the year nominee at Life with certificates for outstanding teaching, and most recently the Hero Teaching Award (2021) from the University System of Georgia. Her past work has included documentaries and researching and co-writing The Unspoken Past, 1940–1970, an Atlanta LGBT+ history project. In 2022 she presented original research on GenZ mental health for faculty of multiple universities and for the USG Teaching and Learning Conference.