Theresa Ann Case

Theresa Ann Case is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston-Downtown. Her chief interest is the history of ordinary Americans. She received her BA in Government and her PhD in US History at the University of Texas at Austin.

One of her favorite quotations about history and historians comes from the late Herbert Gutman: "The central value of historical understanding is that it transforms historical givens into historical contingencies … [allowing] us to see the structures in which we live … as only one among many other possible experiences.”