Graduate Alumnus Katie Brackett Fialka's research and writing interests center on nineteenth-century southern women's reading and writing and explores the ways in which they used literary practices to create sensibilities--ways of thinking, perceiving, and knowing the world--and played crucial roles in the formation of southern literary culture. Research Research Areas: Cultural & Intellectual Digital History Gender and Sexuality U.S. 19th & 20th Century U.S. South Women and Gender Other Information Of note: Gregory Research Award, UGA History Department, 2012 Gregory Family Civil War and Southern Studies Grant, University of Georgia Hatton-Lovejoy Scholarship for Graduate Study, Fuller E. Callaway Foundation, LaGrange, GA, 2012-2017 Ruth Regina Hale Canaga Memorial Fellowship, West Virginia University, 2010-2012 John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visiting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Association, 2013 Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award Recipient, 2013 Graduate Research Award, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, University of Georgia, 2014 Warner-Fite Scholarship Award, University of Georgia History Department, 2015 Dean's Award in Arts and Humanities, UGA Graduate School 2016 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Center for Teaching and Learning, 2016 Future Faculty Program, 2016-7