Department of History

Jewel Parker is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro specializing in American history with minor concentrations in world history and public history. Jewel's dissertation, The Intercultural Origins of Health Care in the Antebellum South, analyzes how intercultural interactions between American Indians, Africans, and Europeans changed medical practice and contributed to the development of the U.S. pharmacopeia in the South from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Publications:

 “Spotlight: Jewel Parker, Winner of the 2021 Outer Banks History Center Summer Research Stipend.” History for All the People, A State Archives of North Carolina Blog. January 25, 2022.

“Biographical Sketch of Olive Dorothy Richard (Mrs. George) Rowland.” In Online Biographical Dictionary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States, edited by Kathryn Kish Skylar and Thomas Dublin. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, December 2020.

 “Biographical Sketch of Mary Lucinda (Mrs. W.L.) Young.” In Online Biographical Dictionary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States, edited by Kathryn Kish Skylar and Thomas Dublin. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, December 2020.

 “Biographical Sketch of Mabelle McAdoo.” In Online Biographical Dictionary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States, edited by Kathryn Kish Skylar and Thomas Dublin. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, June 2020.

 “Biographical Sketch of Georgia Rose Simpson.” In Online Biographical Dictionary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States, edited by Kathryn Kish Skylar and Thomas Dublin. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, December 2019.

“Biographical Sketch of Nettie Langston Napier.” In Online Biographical Dictionary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States, edited by Kathryn Kish Skylar and Thomas Dublin. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, April 2019.

“Loretta Lynn’s Lyrics: Songwriting for Women and the Working Class.” Graduate History Review 7, no. 1 (September 2018): 99-122.

Public History:

 Curatorial Team Member, Sacrifice & Service: Grimsley’s Legacy of Honor. Exhibit located in the Sigmund Selig Pearl Field House at Grimsley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina honoring 99 fallen students and alumni who served in the United States military during World War II. Fall 2021.