Professor Emerita Johanna Shields retired from full time
teaching in 1997 after thirty years at UAH. She received her degrees
from the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). Her monograph The
Line of Duty: Maverick Congressmen and the Development of American
Political Culture, 1836-1860 (Greenwood Press) won the Ralph Gabriel
Prize of the American Studies Association in 1982. Since 1988 she
has been studying nineteenth-century southern writers and has published
several articles on the subject. She now teaches one course each
year, usually in southern history. After a 5-year post-retirement
stint as Director of the UAH Humanities Center, which she was instrumental
in founding during the early 1990s, she now serves as the Center's Executive
Director for Special Projects.
Since her retirement, Dr. Shields has gained five grandchildren, about
whom she is always eager to talk. When she and her husband Nicholas
are not enjoying their growing family, she works on a projected book about
writers in the Old Southwest.
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