Amanda Regan

Assistant Professor

Contact
Department of History
Office: Hardin Hall 004
Phone: Hardin Hall 004
Website: http://www.amanda-regan.com
Email: aeregan@clemson.edu

Education
PhD, George Mason University (2019); MA, California State University, San Marcos (2013)

Research Interests
US 1877-1975; Digital Methods; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; LGBTQ; Cultural history

Professor Regan specializes in digital history as well as late-nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. history with a focus on women’s history. Her current book project, Shaping Up: Physical Fitness Initiatives for Women, 1880-1965, examines particular instances in the late nineteenth and twentieth-century when the state sought to encourage the fitness of female bodies. Shaping Up argues that the discourse of fitness became a powerful instrument in managing women’s bodies around a series of conflicting social, economic, and political demands.

Professor Regan also specializes in digital history and her work often relies upon computational methodologies as a research tool for examining large corpuses of primary sources and gleaning new insights. Previously, Professor Regan was a Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Southern Methodist University's Center for Presidential History and a Digital History Fellow at George Mason University's Roy Rosenzweig's Center for History and New Media.

Selected Professional Works

Books (In Production or Under Contract)

Shaping Up: Physical Fitness Initiatives for Women, 1880-1965 (under contract with the University of Virginia Press).

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

Amanda Regan, Laura Crossley, and Josh Catalano, “Grant Funded Research and Graduate Student Success," in Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, ed. Anouk Lang, Gabriel Hankins and Simon Appleford. (University of Minnesota Press, December 2024.)

“Secret Societies and Revolving Doors: Using Mapping the Gay Guides to Study LGBTQ Life in the United States, 1965-1989,” Journal of Digital History 3, no. 1, (2024) https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/X3MGSKqAycaT?idx=1&layer=narrative

“Mining Mind and Body: Approaches and Considerations for Using Topic Modeling to Identify Discourses in Digitized Publications,” Journal of Sport History 44, no. 2 (Summer 2017):160-77. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.44.2.0160

Amanda Regan and Eric Gonzaba, “Mapping the ‘New Gay South:’ Queer Space and Southern Life 1965-1980,” The Southern Quarterly 58, no. 1, (2020): 11-25. muse.jhu.edu/article/868177.

Digital Works, Videos, CDs & DVDs, Software (Published)

“Mapping the Gay Guides,” Co-Project Director and Digital Lead. http://www.mappingthegayguides.org.

“Mining Eleanor Roosevelt’s My Day Columns,” with Joshua Catalano, May 2017. https:// regan008.shinyapps.io/mining my day/

“Mapping Gymnasiums in Boston,” Visualization. http://amanda-regan.com/bostongymnasiums/.