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Eric Bargeron

Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: Post-Reconstruction era South; African American History; Civil Rights, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. Mercer University (2002); M.A. University of South Carolina (2004)

Jacob Blosser

Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2002
Research Interests: Religion and culture in the 18th-century Atlantic World, Anglicanism in the colonial South, 18th-century literature, Concepts of happiness; Dissertation Topic
Education: M.A. James Madison University (2001), B.A. Milligan College (1999)
  Honors, Awards, Publications

Arthur Mark Boerke
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Spring 2004
Research Interests: Napoleonic Era, French Revolution, 19th Century Europe , Colonialism, Military History, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. (Journalism, History, & International Studies--University of South Carolina
  Honors, Awards, Publications

Tyler Boulware

Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2000
Research Interests: Early America ; Southern Frontier; Ethnicity, Race and Identity; Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. Presbyterian College (1997); M.A. University of South Carolina (2000)

Nancy E. Brown

Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: 2002
Research Interests: The African American Community in Columbia, South Carolina, Dissertation Topic
Education: BA. MA History, University of South Carolina
  Honors, Awards, Publications

J. Drusilla Carter
Seeking: M.A. (Public History)
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: Religion in the South, esp. Southern Judaism; history of religion in America, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. Salem College (2000)

Eric A. Cheezum
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2002
Research Interests: Consumerism, Environmental History, Regional Identity; Natural History; Gilded Age/Progressive Era Political Ideology (especially the notion of small government), Dissertation Topic
Education:

B.A. Salisbury State University (1999); M.A. University of South Carolina, 2002
  Honors, Awards, Publications
 

John R. Clark

 
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: American political history, legal history, Southern history, literary history, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. Augusta State University (2003)
  Honors, Awards, Publications
 

Seth Cope

Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: Late antebellum and Confederate South, Education and Textbooks, Coastal Environment, Thesis Topic
Education:

B.A. (History and Art History)--University of South Carolina (2003)

 

DeAnna Davis
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: New South Cities , Freedmen’s Bureau, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. (1991) & M.S. (1997) University of Tennessee (1991)
  Honors, Awards, Publications

Kevin Dawson
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: 2001
Research Interests: Comparative Slavery, West Africa and the Slave Trade, African Diaspora , U.S. to 1877, Dissertation Topic
Education:  
  Honors, Awards, Publications
 

Sara Eye
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: Southern Women, US Civil War and Reconstruction, Digital History, History and Media Production, Dissertation Topic
Education: M.A. Virginia Tech (2003)
  Honors, Awards, Publications

Ehren Foley
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: 19th Century South, Domestic Slave Trade, Hurricanes, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. University of Virginia (History/Gov’t) 2004

Aaron L. Haberman
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2000 (M.A.), Fall 2002 (Ph.D.)
Research Interests: Modern U.S. , Conservatism, Intersection of Religion and Politics, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A--Washington and Lee University (1999), M.A.--University of South Carolina (2002)
  Honors, Awards, Publications

Kathleen Hilliard
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2000
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century South, Slavery, Consumerism, Public History; Dissertation Topic
Education: BA in History from Wake Forest University; MA in History and Certificate in Museum Management from University of South Carolina
  Honors, Awards, Publications
 

Aaron W. Marrs
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2002
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century South, railroads, slavery, time, comparative history, Dissertation Topic
Education: BA (History)--Lawrence University (1999); MA (History)--University of South Carolina (2002); MA (Library and Information Science--University of South Carolina (2002)
  Honors, Awards, Publications

Rebecca L. Miller
  Honors, Awards, Publications
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: 20th Century South, Civil Rights Movement, African American History, Cold War, Media & Propaganda, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. (2001), M.A.(2003)--James Madison University
  Honors, Awards, Publications

Neal Millikan
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: Lotteries in Colonial America, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A., Converse College (2001); M.A., Public History, North Carolina State University (2003), M.A., History, North Carolina State University (2004)

Eric W. Plaag
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2002
Research Interests: Antebellum travel and souvenirs, sensory history, time studies, slave rebellions, Dissertation Topic
Education: MFA, Creative Writing, George Mason University (1994); BA, Religion, College of William and Mary (1988)
  Honors, Awards, Publications
 

Jenifer Powers
Seeking: M.A. (Public History)
Entered Program: Fall 2002
Research Interests: French colonial culture, especially archaeological and architectural manifestations in the South Carolina Low Country's Huguenot communities, Thesis Topic
Education: BS (1994) Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

David Prior
GHA Treasurer  
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: 19th-Century America, Reconstruction, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. (History and Economics), Hamilton College
  Honors, Awards, Publications
 

Michael S. Reynolds
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: 2000
Research Interests: Social/Cultural history of 19 th Century U.S., Early American religious history, Latin American history, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. Presbyterian College , M.A. The Citadel/University of Charleston joint program

Jeremy Richards
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2000
Research Interests: U.S. political history since 1945, South Carolina history, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A.--North Georgia College (1995); M.A.--State University of West Georgia (1998)
 

Jay Richardson
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2005
Research Interests: My research intersests revolve around the senses and 19th century america. In particular, I am writing an article on white perceptions of slave music, and my dissertation, loosely, focuses on the Old South, Modernity, and Visual Culture. Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A., University of South Carolina; M.A., University of South Carolina

Christopher Damien Rounds
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: 19th Century America: Irish immigration and Irish-Americans, African-American culture, Civil War, & Antebellum South, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. (2001) Marist College , M.A. (2003) Catholic University of America
  Honors, Awards, Publications
 

Brenda Thompson Schoolfield
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 1997
Research Interests:

Colonial America; Early Modern Europe; time consciousness; Dissertation Topic

Education:

B.A. (1988), M.Ed. (1990) Bob Jones University

Christopher J. Scott

President  
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2002
Research Interests: 20th Century Social and Cultural, with emphasis on popular entertainment in the South, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. Oglethorpe University (2001); M.A. in Public History, University of South Carolina (2004)

Kathryn M. Silva
Vice-President  
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: 19th Century African-American, African-American Women, U.S. South, sub-Saharan & western Africa, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. University of Massachusetts, Boston (2000)

Matt Stevenson
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: Affairs of Honor in the Early Republic; 19th Century Dueling Epistemology; The Florida Acquisition Campaigns 1800-1819, Dissertation Topic
Education:

B.A. (2003) University of Florida, M.A. (2004) University of Florida

Rebecca Cowles Swanson

Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: 2002
Research Interests: Southern, environmental, disaster history, Dissertation Topic
Education:

MA History North Carolina State University 2000; MA Liberal Studies North Carolina State University 1993

Andrew R. Stager
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: Religious practice in revolutionary and Napoleonic France, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. Kent State University
 

Melissa Jane Taylor
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2001
Research Interests: Modern Europe , German History, Jewish Studies, Holocaust History, Material Culture, Consumerism, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A.(1999), Presbyterian College ; M.A. (2001), University of South Carolina
 

Daniel J. Tortora
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2004
Research Interests: The Colonial South, Charleston, Italian-American history, Native American history, Mexico, sports, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. (history, geology), Washington and Lee University (2003)

Louis Venters
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: Fall 2002
Research Interests:

Southern interracialism since the Civil War, the Bahá’í Faith in the South, religion and race in the U. S., Africa and the Diaspora, Dissertation Topic
Education: B.A. ( History and Modern Languages)--Winthrop University (1998); M.A. (History)--University of South Carolina (2004)
 

Kelli Cardenas Walsh
Seeking: Ph.D.
Entered Program: 2001
Research Interests:

Women’s, African American, and Military history, Dissertation Topic
Education:

B.A University of Alaska Fairbanks (1991), M.A. Fayetteville State University (1995)

 

Gregory W. Wolf
Seeking: M.A.
Entered Program: Fall 2003
Research Interests: Napoleonic Era, French Revolution, Military History, Thesis Topic
Education: B.A. University of California Santa Barbara
  Honors, Awards, Publications

 

 
 
 
 
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