Rate My Professor Susan Ashmore

Ashmore authored Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964–1972 (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which won the Francis Butler Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association and the Willie Lee Rose Publication Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians, both in 2009. She contributed 'Going Back to Selma: Organizing for Change after the Selma March to Montgomery' to The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964–1980 (University of Georgia Press, 2011) and 'Making Her Way in Wallace Country: Lurleen Burns Wallace' to Alabama Women: Their Lives and Times (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Her courses encompass Foundations of American Society: Beginnings to 1877, American Civil Rights History, Modern American History since 1945, The New South: 1877 to the Present, America in the 1960s, and Oral History: Engaging with Living Subjects. Honors include the Mizell Award for Superior Performance in furthering the Education of Students (2002–2003), the Fleming Award for excellence in teaching and service (2008), and the Emory Williams Award (2017). She attended the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on African American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1866–1965, at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute in 2003 and has co-led student trips to civil rights sites in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.