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- Anne_Firor_Scott abstract "Anne Firor Scott (born April 24, 1921 in Montezuma, Georgia) is a prominent historian. In 1941 she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia. She earned a master's degree in political science from Northwestern University in 1944, and a PhD from Radcliffe College in 1949. She had temporary teaching appointments at Haverford College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in 1961 became assistant professor of history at Duke University, where she stayed until her retirement in 1991. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson appointed her to the Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women.In 1970 her book The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930, was published; it is now considered a classic that almost singlehandedly created the modern field of Southern women's history. Firor Scott became the first female chair of Duke's history department in 1980. In 1984 she became president of the Organization of American Historians. In 1987 the Anne Firor Scott Research Fund was created as an endowment to support students conducting independent research in women's history. In 1989 she became president of the Southern Historical Association, and the Women's Sudies living group at Duke named their dormitory after her. Since 1992 the Organization of American Historians has awarded the annual Lerner-Scott Prize, named for her and historian Gerda Lerner, to the writer of the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history. In 2002 she received the Organization of American Historians' Distinguished Service Award. She received the American Historical Association’s Scholarly Achievement Award in 2008. She has also served on the advisory boards of the Schlesinger Library, the Princeton University department of history, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Firor Scott is now the W. K. Boyd Professor Emerita of History at Duke University, as well as an editor of the American Women's History Series at the University of Illinois Press and an editor for UPA. The Anne Firor Scott papers, 1963-2002, are held at Duke University.She married Andrew MacKay Scott in 1947, and they had a daughter, two sons, and four grandchildren. Andrew died in 2005.".
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