CARA DELAY (religion, culture, and gender in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland) received her PhD in Comparative History from Brandeis University in 2002. Before coming to the University of Charleston she taught at Framingham State College.
Her dissertation The Fire of Devotion: Catholicism, Conflict, and Community Life in Rural Ireland, 1850-1920. was awarded the American Conference for Irish Studies Adele Dalsimer Prize for a Distinguished Dissertation, 2003.

Her book entitled Women, Church, and Community in Catholic Ireland, 1840-1920 is being solicited by The University of Notre Dame Press and the Catholic University of America Press.

Dr. Delay's publications are "Confidantes or Competitors? Women, Priests, and Conflict in Post-Famine Ireland," Eire-Ireland 40, 1&2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 107-125.; "The Devotional Revolution on the Local Level: Parish Life in Post-Famine Ireland," U.S. Catholic Historian 22, 3 (Summer 2004): 41-60.; and Review of Muslim Women in the UK and Beyond: Experiences and Images, ed. Haifaa Jawad and Tansin Benn (Leiden: Brill,2003) in Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 3,2 (2005).
Her curent monograph in progress is entitled Uncharitable Tongues; Women, Language, and Power in Modern Ireland. Recent journal publications forthcoming are: "Churching and Changelings: Women and Birth Rituals in Rural Ireland." and "'The Thunders of the Altar': Irish Catholics and Chapel Conflicts in the Nineteenth Century."

Cara Delay, Assistant Professor
email: delayc@cofc.edu

Home: Department of History
Office: Maybank 327
Phone: 953-2171

Professor, History Department
College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. 29424
Born Chicago, Illinois
Spouse: Cheryle Drago
Military Commitment (ROTC), 1969-1972, completed when I left the U.S. Army Adjutant General's Corps as a Captain (Vietnam veteran).
Phone: (843) 884-5212
E-Mail Address: Dragoe@cofc.edu FAX: (843) 953-6349

Education

Ph.D. (1975) and M.A. (1966), History, University of California,
Berkeley; B.A., History, University of Santa Clara, 1964

Teaching Fields

U.S. History: Nineteenth-Century, American Civil War and
Reconstruction; Gilded Age, South Carolina
European History, Survey, Ancient to the Present
World History

Teaching Experience (Courses Taught)
(College of Charleston, 1975 to present)
Civil War and Reconstruction (graduate and undergraduate)
United States History, 1865-1918
South Carolina (team taught)
Lowcountry (South Carolina Governor's School)
Special Topics in South Carolina History (graduate seminar) Honors Civil War and Reconstruction (seminar) Ku Klux Klan and American Society (team taught and interdisciplinary)
European History, Ancient to the Present (two semesters)
World History to 1500 and Since 1500

Scholarly Activities

Hurrah For Hampton: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction (University of Arkansas Press, 1998)
ISBN 1-55728-541-1
Documents the existence of hundreds of Black Red Shirt during the Campaign of 1876, and what motivated them.

Preserving and Using Your Community's Past (South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Produced by the Publications Service Area, 1996) Pamphlet publishing a speech given by Edmund L. Drago at the State Historical Records Board Conference, Columbia, SC. Thursday, March, 1996.

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (University of Georgia Press, Brown Thrasher edition, 1992). ISBN 0-8203-1438-2
Paperback edition revised to include new preface and chart listing local black officials.

"Broke by the War": Letters of a Slave Trader (University of
South Carolina Press, 1991). ISBN-0-87249-763-1
Describes the life of a Sumter, SC domestic slave trader, his relationship with a Charleston Broker, and the impact the trade had on the slaves.

Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery
Normal Institute (University of Georgia Press, 1990).
ISBN 0-8203-1124-3
Documents the history of an important black High School and Normal School in Charleston whose graduates would help establish the NAACP in Charleston. It ties the history of the school with larger state and national trends. It also deals with intrasegregation among Charleston blacks.

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid
Failure (Louisiana State University Press, 1982).
ISBN 0-8071-1021-3
Emphasizes the role religion had in shaping black politics during Congressional Reconstruction.

Current Research Interest Children during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Consultancies

Editorial Board, Journal of Southwest Georgia History, 1983 to present.

Referee, manuscripts, for University of Georgia Press, University
of South Carolina Press, and Indiana State University Press.

Member-at-large, South Carolina Historical Records-Advisory Board, 1991 to the present.

Member, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Publications Board, 1997 to present

Referee, National Endowment for the Humanities

Member of the Membership Committees of the Organization of American Historians and Southern Historical Association
Member, Committee of the Southern Historical Association, Francis Butler Simpkins Prize (First Best book by an author in Southern History)

Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1981.

College of Charleston Distinguished Research Award, 1991.

Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Teaching), Genoa, Italy, January-
June 1994.

Award for Excellence and Historical Research, St. Ignatius High School, Chicago, September 30, 1995

Department of History Grant, Summer, 1997

Faculty Research and Development Committee Grant, Summer 1997

Fellow, Institute of Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Summer 1997

Public Lectures

"Boston and the Deromanticizing of Slavery," Rabb Lecture Hall
Series, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, March 12, 1992.
Also delivered at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., March, 1992.

Administrative Duties

Director of the Maymester Program, College of Charleston, two years.

Professional Organizations

American Association of University Professors
American Historical Association
Georgia Historical Society
Organization of American Historians
South Carolina Historical Society
Southeast World History Association
Southern Historical Association