Washington College

Jill Ogline Titus

Associate Director, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience

E-mail: jtitus2@washcoll.edu
Phone: 1-410-810-7157
Office: Custom House

Education

B.A., Taylor University, 2001
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007

Biography

Jill Ogline Titus received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. Before joining the staff of the Starr Center, she worked extensively for the National Park Service, as a ranger-historian at Independence National Historical Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site, and a curatorial assistant at Gettysburg National Military Park. While serving as a historian with the National Historic Landmarks Program, she helped create the Sites of Conscience Project, which encourages stewards of historic properties to make their sites centers of civic dialogue. Titus has been a Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Consulting Scholar and serves as a district/state judge for National History Day. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of Southern History, The Public Historian, The American Scholar, and Civil War Book Review. She is currently at work on a book project on Prince Edward County, Virginia, the high water mark of southern resistance to school desegregation.