Dr. Victoria Ott is the James A. Woods Associate Professor of American History and the coordinator for the Gender and Women’s Studies Minor at Birmingham-Southern College. She received her B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Central Florida and her Ph.D. with an emphasis on American History from the University of Tennessee.
Dr. Ott is a scholar of the American Civil War, Old South, and U.S. Women’s History. She is the author of Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War which was published by the Southern Illinois Press in 2008. Her more recent publications include Voices from the Margins: Non-Elites in Confederate Alabama, in The Yellowhammer War: the Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (University of Alabama Press, 2013) and Love in Battle: the Meaning of Courtship in the Civil War South, in Children and Youth During the Civil War Era (New York University Press, 2012).
She has received numerous honors for scholarship and teaching including the Excellence in Teaching Award from Omicron Delta Kappa, the McWilliams Faculty Scholarship Award, and the National Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship.