Paisley Harris
Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies

paisley.harris@uwc.edu
Phone: 920-929-1165
Department: History
Office: S-214

Degrees:
B.A. Macalester College

J.D. University of Washington

M.A. University of Minnesota

Ph.D. University of Minnesota • US History

Classes:
HIS 101 US History to the Civil War

HIS 102 US History Since the Civil War

HIS 198 Film as Social History

HIS 278 Minorities in US History

HIS 279 Women in US History

HIS 285 US History 1917-1945

HIS 286 US History 1945-present

Dr. Harris is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at UW-Fond du Lac. She is also coordinator of Engaging Students in the First Year, a program to help students transition successfully to college, for the 13 UW Colleges.

She joined the UW-Fond du Lac faculty in the fall of 2002. Her teaching and research interests include women's history, African American history, cultural and legal history. She is currently working on research on the early twentieth century women's tent show blues and the performance of race in early twentieth century traveling shows.

In the Fond du Lac community, she chairs the Great Decisions Committee which hosts foreign policy lectures. She is also involved with Fond du Lac Reads which organizes a community-wide reading each year. She also supervises a number of her students in a service learning project with the Fond du Lac County Historical Society's Traveling Trunk program each year.

Dr. Harris lives in the Fond du Lac area with her husband, Dr. John Morris, and their daughter, Sylvia Morris.