Biography
Retired from the University of Kentucky since 2018, I now live in Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: hollings@mail.h-net.org
Other contact info: @rhollingsworth@h-net.social (on H-Net's Mastodon instance) @rhollingsworth (on Twitter); Bella Yan (in Second Life)
Courses Taught in Kentucky: Service-Learning and Leadership for #IAmAWomanInSTEM Student Ambassadors; History of Kentucky Women in the Civil Rights Era; A&S Wired Global Community Series (focusing on international communities in the virtual world of Second Life); UK Academic Orientation; Discovery Seminar (focusing on first year student field research in social networks); Historical Methods and Literature (focusing on Southern Conservatism); Kentucky History (undergraduate and graduate levels); European History introductory surveys, U.S. History introductory surveys, African-American History introductory surveys, Sub-Saharan African History, Intro to Women’s Studies (Arts & Humanities)
Degrees
Current Positions
Dissertations and Theses
Areas of Interest
- Australian and New Zealand History / Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Educational Technology
- History Education
- Humanities
- Intellectual History
- Local History
- Oral History
- Political History / Studies
- Research and Methodology
- Social History / Studies
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Publications
“Migrant and ethnic women on COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand: Employment, wellbeing and resilience,” co-authored with Dr. Barbara Bedeschi-Lewando, Dr. Gauri Nandedkar, Sylvia Lima, Shirin Brown, Dr Ema Tagicakibau, and Ann Afadama, for the New Zealand Political Studies Association’s Women Talking Politics (2020-2021), https://nzpsa.com/women-talking-politics.
“Annie Jane Allen Schnackenberg (1835-1905): A Political Life With Considering,” Issuu (November 2021) https://issuu.com/randolph.hollingsworth/docs/anniejaneallenschnackenberg-withindex
“African-American Women Voters in Lexington’s School Suffrage Times, 1895-1902: Race Matters in the History of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Movement,” Ohio Valley History Journal 20 (Spring 2020):30-53.
"Memoirs of a Feminist Avatar..." in Women of the Right Comparisons and Interplay Across Borders, edited by Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch (Penn State Univ Press, 2012) http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05215-1.html
"Mrs. Boone, I Presume?..." in Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852, edited by James C. Klotter and Daniel Rowland (Univ Press of KY, 2012) http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2884
Lexington: Queen of the Bluegrass (Arcadia, 2004) http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738524665/Lexington-Queen-of-the-Bluegrass
“Mag Preston: Personal Honor in Southern Politics” in The Human Tradition in the American South, edited by James C. Klotter, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2003.
“A Case Study of the Kentucky Virtual University,” in Towards Virtualization: The World of Open and Distance Learning, Vol. II, V. Venugopal Reddy and Manjulika Srivastava, eds., New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited, 2002.
Introductory Essay for Alice Stone Blackwell’s Lucy Stone: Pioneer Woman Suffragist, (orig. pub. 1930), University of Virginia Press, 2001.
Many different encyclopedia essays: “Daughters of the American Revolution;” “Governors;” “Peace groups, women’s;” “Second Great Awakening;” Encyclopedia of American Women’s History, edited by Hasia Diner. New York, NY: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. “Lexington, Kentucky;” “Ohio River;” “Hemp;” “Spas and Gardens;” “Northwest Territory” – essays for Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America, edited by Christopher Bates. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2010. “Amo Lucille Powell Peters (b. December 5, 1912, Cynthiana, Ky.),” Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, co-edited by Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. “Robert J. Breckinridge,” William Wells Brown,” “Speed S. Fry,” “James Guthrie,” “Refugee Home Society” entries for Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ABC-CLIO, 2001.
Several book reviews: Review: Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky’s Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America, by Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006). , August 2006. Review: Henry Adams and the Southern Question, by Michael O'Brien (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005). H-South listserv , January 2006. Review: Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2004) in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Summer 2004): 237-240. Review: Gender and the Southern Body Politic: Essays and Comments by Peter Bardaglio, Kathleen M. Brown, et al, edited by Nancy Bercaw (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000). H-South@h-net.msu.edu (February, 2001). Review: Kathleen Waters Sander, The Business of Charity: The Woman’s Exchange Movement, 1832-1900 (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1998). H-Women@h-net.msu.edu (July, 2000). Review: Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women’s History, edited by Janet L. Coryell et al. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998). Filson Club History Quarterly 74 (Winter 2000): 57-58.
“Women of Kentucky: Our Legacy, Our Future” video consultant and interviewee (produced by the Kentucky Commission on Women and Peridot Co.; first broadcast on Ky. Educational Television, August 6, 2000).
“Claiming the Commons: Constructing an American Identity,” Chapter 7 of American Dreams and Reality, Vol. I, Abigail Press, 2000. (also 3 chapters in the study guide; now in 3rd edition printing)
“A Case Study: Peace vs. War .... at what Costs in Africa? Zimbabwe’s Independence,” in Managing International Conflict Teaching Units, Univ. of Ky. (U.S. Institute of Peace), 1992.
The Effective Lecture; The Effective Demonstration; Developing Written Tests; and, Using Media Effectively, University of Kentucky, College of Allied Health Professions, Teaching Improvement Project System, 1989.
“Women in Zimbabwe,” Vassar Quarterly, Fall 1982.