Stephanie Rolph

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601.974.1010

Interim Provost
Associate Professor of History

I am a native of Jackson, Mississippi, and I graduated from Millsaps College in 1999. I completed my Ph.D. in history at Mississippi State in 2009, and joined the Millsaps faculty in 2010. My book “Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989” was named the best book on Mississippi History in 2019. My other work has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History and the Journal of Southern History. I wrote the foreword for “The South Strikes Back,” a re-release of Hodding Carter III’s 1959 profile of the Citizens’ Council, a Mississippi-based organization that worked for over three decades to resist civil rights advances. In 2023, I was appointed interim provost and dean of the college, and I am currently serving as book review editor for the Journal of Mississippi History.

Education

  • Ph.D., History, Mississippi State University
  • M.A., History, Mississippi State University
  • B.A., History, Millsaps College

Expertise

  • 20th Century Political and Intellectual History
  • U.S. South