Tracey Rizzo, Ph.D.
Tracey Rizzo, Ph.D.
Professor of History
204 Whitesides Hall
Phone: 251-6315
Email: trizzo@unca.edu
Currently on Family Leave
Education
Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1992
Teaching and Research Interests
Gender and Empire, Videogaming through world history, French Revolution, European Women’s History, Environmental Feminism
Publications
- Revolutionaries | Gendered Experiences and Scripts from France to Nicaragua
- Introduction: Teaching Gender and Empire Special Issue, World History Connected 15.3 (October 2018), (I also served as guest editor for this special issue)
- Introduction: Gender and Empire Special Issue, Journal of World History 28.2 and 3 (December 2017), (I also served as guest editor for this double issue)
- Ecofeminist community-engaged learning in southern Appalachia: An introduction to strategic essentialism in the first year of college, Journal of Environmental Education, forthcoming (December 2017)
- Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World (co-author Steven Gerontakis), Oxford University Press, 2016
- A Certain Emancipation of Women, Susquehanna Univ Press, 2005
- The French Revolution: A document collection, Houghton Mifflin, 1999
Recent Conference Presentations and Memberships
- American Historical Association
- Berkshire Conference on Women in History
- National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
- National Women’s Studies Association
- Society for French Historical Studies
- World History Association
Service
- AVID advisory committee
- Commissioner, Historic Resources Commission, City of Asheville
- Executive Committee of the World History Association
- Founding member, first-generation college student task force
- H-France Scholars’ Registry Administrator
- Member, Cengage/Gale Women’s Studies Archive editorial board
- Member, Academic Affairs Strategic Planning Team
Courses Regularly Taught
- Age of Enlightenment
- Environmental Feminism
- European Feminisms
- French Revolution
- Gender and Empire
- Global Revolutions
- Women and Imperialism
- Women and the Environment
- Humanities 324; the Modern World
- World History
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