Rate My Professor Stephanie Cole

Stephanie Cole, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, a position she has held since 1996. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1994. Currently, she serves as the department chair and graduate advisor for the university's History M.A. program. Cole is also affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies and contributes to service learning initiatives. Her research specializations include U.S. women's and social history, with emphasis on southern and Texas women’s history, the history of women and work, intersections of race, gender, work, and sex, and American regionalism from a regional perspective. She teaches courses in women’s history, the history of work and leisure, how to teach college history, and the service-learning course "Women and Work in Transatlantic Perspective," partnering with nonprofits to address contemporary workforce biases related to race, gender, and age.

Cole's scholarly contributions include co-editing Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives with Elizabeth Hayes Turner and Rebecca Sharpless (University of Texas Press, 2015), which won the Liz Carpenter Prize in 2016; the article “Servants and Slaves in Louisville: Race, Ethnicity, and Household Labor in an Antebellum Border City,” recipient of Ohio Valley History’s best article prize in 2014; and co-editing The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South (Texas A&M University Press, 2012). She also co-authored the open textbook How History is Made: A Student’s Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline (2022). For her teaching excellence, she received the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2021. Cole maintains active memberships in the Southern Historical Association, Southern Association for Women Historians, Organization of American Historians, and National Women’s History Museum, and serves on the Advisory Board for Archives of Women of the Southwest at SMU’s DeGolyer Library.