Paige Magoto

M.A. Student

Contact
Department of History
Email: pmagoto@clemson.edu

Education
BA, Georgia College and State University (2023)

Research Interests
U.S. History; U.S. South; Women; Memory Studies; Slavery; Film; Gender

My name is Paige Magoto. I am a current History MA Student at Clemson University. I received my BA in History at Georgia College and State University. Throughout my undergraduate career, my personal interests have always been, most broadly, in the Civil War Era. Within that area I have done multiple case studies on the civil war wives, mothers, and daughters, specifically within the confederacy. My interests in union women have been more rooted in abolition, rather than the Civil War conflict. Some of this research has been through film study, and cross examination of these films and the scholarship surrounding them. For example, I compared three different versions of The Beguiled, the book and two films, in my undergraduate thesis project titled “Misogyny, Male Dominance, and Male Ascendence in the Film industry”. This was a comparative essay on the films and books, as well as the scholarship surrounding the actions of confederate women in the civil war and their interactions union soldiers. While I have focused on film study and find that to be a great interest of mine, I am capable of and interested in focusing solely on women of the civil war and women abolitionists motivations, actions, and importance. For example, I wrote a paper in my introduction to historical research and writing throughout the semester attempting to show the movement of women abolitionists from the domestic sphere to the political sphere in regard to their political opinions and actions. This was Titled: "The Women of the Abolitionist Movement: The Gradual Transformation from a Strictly Domestic Sphere to a Political Agenda". My online portfolio I created at the end of my senior year of my undergraduate studies can be linked here (https://portfolium.com/paigemagoto/portfolio.)