Courtenay Lonnquist Forward

Courtenay Lonnquist Forward, Ph.D. Student in the Department of History, focusing on slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Jim Crow, and education. She recently graduated from Baylor University's Doctor of Education in Learning and Educational Change program. Her dissertation is titled Dismantling Lost Cause Fables: A Content Analysis Examining Narrative and Visual Representations of Slavery in U.S. History Textbooks. Her research findings show that modern textbooks adhere to Lost Cause ideology by simultaneously decontextualizing and normalizing slavery in narrative descriptions and visual imagery. 

 

She earned a master's degree in art history and museum studies from the Universiteit van Amsterdam with a thesis titled Manet and Realism: Old and New. She also earned a master's degree in Dutch studies from the Universiteit van Amsterdam with a thesis titled Sacred and Profane: Women in the Works of Johannes Vermeer, which was named of the "Most Remarkable Theses Written in The International School of History and Social Sciences (ISHSS).  She holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California at Davis.