Victoria E. Bynum Papers

Victoria E. Bynum received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from California State University, Chico in June 1979. Bynum then received a Master of Arts and Ph.D in history from University of California, San Diego in December 1987. Dr. Bynum’s research focuses on the relationships between gender, class and race in the South during the Civil War Era. Dr. Bynum is the author of three books, Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (1992), The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (2001), and The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies (2010). In 2016, The Free State of Jones was made into a major motion picture based on Dr. Bynum’s book.

Dr. Bynum received the following awards, grants, and fellowships, San Diego Fellowship, University of California at San Diego (1979-1981), Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at San Diego (1982-1983), Lena Lake Forrest Fellowship, Business and Professional Women’s Foundation, Washington, D.C. (1984 -1985), Research Enhancements Grants, Office Sponsored Projects and Research from Texas State University (1992, 1995, 1996), Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (2000), Lawrence T. Jones III Research Fellowship (2003), Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship from Texas State University (2004, 2005), University Award for Excellence in Scholarship from Texas State University (2006), and Distinguished Educator Foundations of Excellent Award from Texas State University (2007).

Victoria Bynum began teaching at Texas State University at San Marcos in 1986 until her retirement in 2010, and has since become a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas State University.