Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae is the Creighton Sossoman Professor of History at Western Carolina University. Her teaching and research interests center on the intersection of race, gender, and politics in America and in the modern South. She has published articles in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the BBC’s World Histories. Her book, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy published in 2018 examines white women’s work in maintaining white supremacy in public education, social welfare policy, politics, and culture.