Bernice Elizabeth Forrest is an Associate Professor of History. She received a Ph.D. in U. S. History from Tulane University in 1983 with specializations in postbellum cultural and intellectual history, medieval Europe to 1150, and American literature to 1945. Professor Forrest teaches post-1865 U.S. cultural and social history and Native American Indian ethnohistory east of the Mississippi. Her research features Native American Indian peoples on the Atlantic seaboard and eastern Canada.
Forrest's awards include Newberry Library, NEH, and New York University Scholar-in-Residence fellowships. Publications include The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (Oxford, 1991), and she served for seven years as the History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies panel chairman for the National Research Council/Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities Program. Forrest stresses critical (analytical) thinking skills in students' written and oral responses. Courses utilize a variety of pedagogical tools such as dialectical notebooks (journals), "one-minute" paper commentaries on films, case studies, and rubrics for expository writing.