
Kelly Erby
- Contact
- Morgan HallRm 209 A1700 SW College AveTopeka, KS 66621-1117785.670.2018
- Degrees & Certifications
- Ohio State University, Bachelor of Arts
- Emory University, Master of Arts
- Emory University, Doctor of Philosophy
- Academic History
Assistant professor, Washburn University, 2011-present
Visiting lecturer, Georgia State University, 2010-2011
Mellon teaching fellow, Agnes Scott College, 2009-2010
Instructor, Oglethorpe University, 2007-2009
Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Emory University, 2007
- Teaching
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- HI 315 A, Women in US History
- HN 302 A, Seminar in the Social Sciences
- WG 399 D, Special Topics
- WU 101 L, The Washburn Experience
- Scholarly Interests/Activities
- Nineteenth-century American social and cultural history; food and dining in America; popular culture; urban history; gender history; abolitionism
- Service Interests/Activities
Book Review editor, Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains
Editor, Washburn Department of History Newsletter (published each semester)
Organizer, Washburn Gender Brown Bag Series
Lincoln Lecture Committee
Honors Council
Diversity Initiative
Kansas Studies
Women’s and Gender Studies
I am also the Concurrent Enrollment Program Liaison for the Department of History, overseeing introductory-level college history classes in local Topeka high schools.
- Career Accomplishments
Restaurant Republic: The Rise of Public Dining in Boston (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
Co-curator, “Portrait and Text: African American Artists of Dance, Music and the Written Word,” MARBL (Atlanta, GA), 2011
Mellon Foundation Graduate Teaching Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2009-2010
“Worthy of Respect: Black Waiters in Boston before the Civil War.” Food and History 5 (February 2008): 205-18
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2014-2015
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2015-2016
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2016-2017
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2018-2019
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2018-2019
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2019-2020
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2019-2020
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2020-2021
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2020-2021
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2021-2022
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2021-2022
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