M.A. in U.S. History, Louisiana State University, 1997
B.A. in History, California State University, 1995
Specialties: Race and racial mixture in the Americas, Critical race theory, Creole history, family history, an autoethnography, racial mixture in the French colonial world.
Dr. Gaudin teaches courses in the core as well as in the disciplines of History and African American and Diaspora Studies. Her research interests are primarily in Creole history and the histories of racially mixed people in different French colonial contexts, namely South Louisiana and South Vietnam, where she has conducted oral history research. Dr. Gaudin's creative nonfiction and autoethnographic essays have been published in Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, North American Review, Rappahannock Review, and About Place Journal. She has contributed chapters to The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twentieth Century and Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making. Her book, Diasporic Creole: A Chronicle of New Orleans and Beyond, is forthcoming (LSU Press).
