Associate Professor of History
Department Chair of History
Christy Snider has been teaching U.S. history at Berry College since 2000. Her research includes work on women’s involvement in transnational organizations, college life in the 1950s, and local Civil Rights history.
Education
B.A., Drury College
M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University
Teaching Interests
Post-reconstruction U.S. history
U.S. women's history
U.S foreign policy
Research Interests
Dr. Snider has published several articles on the involvement of women in diplomacy during the interwar years and is currently working on a monograph that explores the backgrounds of women who served as official delegates to transnational governmental conferences between 1920-1945. In 2010, her chapter, "Creating an International Identity: The IFUW Confronts Racial and Religious Membership Restrictions in the 1930s," appeared in Erika Kuhlman's and Kimberley Jensen's edited volume, Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective.