Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Early American History, Gender, Race, the Old South
UH 5210-E
419.530.4540
ami.pflugradjackisch@utoledo.edu
Biography
Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch is Professor and Chair of the History Department. Dr. Pflugrad-Jackisch is a specialist in early American history, and her teaching and research interests explore questions about early American culture and politics, gender, citizenship, slavery, and the founding fathers.
Her first book, Brothers of a Vow: Secret Fraternal Organizations and the Transformation of White Male Culture in Antebellum Virginia, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2010. In addition to several other articles and book chapters about women, slavery, and the American Revolution, she is the author of “‘What Am I but an American?’: Mary Willing Byrd and Westover Plantation during the American Revolution,” in Women and the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World, ed. Barbara Oberg (University of Virginia Press, 2019), “White Women and the American Revolution,” in Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, In Volume 1: Enlightenment and the American Revolution, ed. Wim Klooster (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and “Women’s Histories of the Early American Republic,” co-authored with Lorri Glover in, The Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation, ed (University of Virginia Press, 2025).
Her current book project “The World of Westover: Mary Willing Byrd, Gender, Slavery, and the Economics of Citizenship in Revolutionary Virginia,” received an NEH writing fellowship and the Southern Association for Women Historians’ Ann Firor Scott prize. The book is under contract with the University of Virginia Press with an expected publication date of 2027.
