Tammy Ingram
'07 PhD History // Associate Professor of History, College of Charleston
Tammy Ingram is a historian who publishes on southern politics and on crime and punishment. She received her PhD in History from Yale in 2007 is currently a tenured professor in History; Urban Studies; Women’s & Gender Studies; and Crime, Law, & Society at the College of Charleston. Before moving to Charleston, Professor Ingram was the Kirk Visiting Professor at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta and a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2016-2017, she was invited to return to Yale as the Robina Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center and a Visiting Associate Professor in History.
Dr. Ingram the author of Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press. Her second book The Wickedest City in America: The Rise and Fall of Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press and has been optioned for television. In addition to her academic publications, Dr. Ingram has contributed numerous essays, op-eds, and interviews to outlets all over the country, and she has delivered invited lectures at major universities, book festivals, and the National Archives.
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