Rate My Professor Jennifer Nardone

Jennifer Nardone is a professor in the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College, where she teaches American History and African-American History. She joined the college in 2010 and instructs courses such as HIST 2224: African American History II, which focuses on the post-Civil War era. To aid her students in group projects, Dr. Nardone has developed dedicated library research guides including sections on getting started, primary sources, topic suggestions, and additional resources. These guides direct students to relevant books, articles, databases, and websites essential for historical analysis. Furthermore, she has contributed to open educational resources, such as primary source readings for HIST 1151 American History to 1877, including "Unit 6: A House Divided," and curated materials like Booker T. Washington's "Speech before the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition," released under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Dr. Nardone possesses a robust interdisciplinary academic background. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Mississippi, with her dissertation investigating segregated schools in Mississippi from the 1890s through the 1920s. Additional graduate degrees include an MA in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MS in Architectural History from the University of California, Berkeley. Her undergraduate degrees are a BA in English and a BAA in Art History, both from the University of Arizona. Beyond teaching, she co-chairs the Academic Rules and Policies committee for Arts and Sciences Humanities. Nardone has participated in public engagement activities, serving as a speaker at the college's Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, delivering a lecture on "The Southern Diaspora" as part of the Thurgood Marshall exhibit from October 2015 to February 2016, presenting at the 2023 "Bringing East Asian Studies into the Classroom" workshop, and acting as the contact for the 2018 Humanities Department symposium "When East Meets West."