Julia Kirk Blackwelder

JULIA KIRK BLACKWELDER is an emerita professor at Texas A&M University, where she previously served as head of the history department and as associate dean. She is the author of three books: Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation (2003); Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900–1995 (1997); and Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939 (1984). She is a Schenectady County native and currently a resident of Ballston, New York.