FALL 2025 OFFICE HOURS

M 1:00-4:30; W 1:00-3:30

Hillary R. Anderson is a social historian of the late twentieth-century United States, focusing on individual and collective identity formation and how identity manifests in liberative action. She earned her PhD at Texas A&M University with fields of study in African American History, the Atlantic and Caribbean World, and a certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her most recent research specifically investigates the discourse on Southern identity within lesbian feminist communities in the 1970s; it appears in the Journal of American Studies Association of Texas and the edited collection Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South.

At UCA, Dr. Anderson serves as the BSE Social Studies Coordinator for the History Department. Teaching history is Dr. Anderson’s favorite professional activity. Besides the survey, America in the Modern Era: the US since 1877, and a section of The Historian’s Craft, her courses at UCA include a First Year Seminar on Sports in American History, Recent American History (1960 – present), Queer History of the US, and Music and Identity Politics in US History.