Jennifer Gross

Dr. Gross grew up mostly in North Carolina and began her academic journey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she earned a BA in history. After graduation, she left for Richmond, Virginia, where she continued to study history and earned an MA from the University of Richmond. From there, she headed to Athens, Georgia – God’s country – to pursue a Ph.D. in history and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Georgia - Go Dawgs! She arrived at JSU in 2001 and has been here ever since.
Dr. Gross teaches both halves of the American history survey, and undergraduate and graduate classes in her areas of research expertise: the American Civil War and Reconstruction and American Women's History. She is also the advisor for JSU's gender studies minor, so she frequently teaches GNS201: Introduction to Gender and Diversity as well.
Her research has been published in many academic journals and essay collections, and she regularly presents at scholarly conferences. She is most pleased to announce that in Spring 2025, Louisiana State University Press published her first book, Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South. It is available on Amazon.com and wherever books are sold. She has begun work on a second book project, a biography of Helen Dortch Longstreet, the widow of General James Longstreet, the villain of the Lost Cause Myth."

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