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Kevin Dawson, PhD 2005, grew up surfing in southern California and came to USC to study with Dan Littlefield. An article from his dissertation, "Enslaved Watermen in the Atlantic World," won the Pelzer Prize and was published in the Journal of American History.




Recent Dissertations and Placements [ back ]

2007

  • Cheezum, Eric, (BA, Salisbury; MA, South Carolina) "Discovering Chessie: Waterfront, Regional Identity, and the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster, 1960-2000"; adjunct prof., University of South Carolina
  • Hileman, Scott (BA, Longwood; MA, Winthrop) "Sir Thomas Picton, 1758-1815"; assist. prof., Gordon College
  • Shrum, Rebecca (BA, South Carolina; MA, South Carolina) "Mirroring Others, Fashioning Selves: Looking Glasses and American Identities, 1700-1900"; assist. prof., Wisconsin-Whitewater

2006

  • Blosser, Jacob M., “Pursuing Happiness: Cultural Discourse and Popular Religion in Anglican Virginia, 1700-1770.” Assistant Professor of History, Texas Women’s University.
  • Grant, Jimmy Randall, “Louis Francis Budenz: The Origins of a Professional Ex-Communist.” Adjunct Instructor in History, Presbyterian College.
  • Haberman, Aaron Louis, “Civil Rights on the Right: The Modern Christian Right and the Crusade for School Prayer, 1962-1996.” Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado.
  • Hilliard, Kathleen Mary, “Spending in Black and White: Race, Slavery, and Consumer Values in the Antebellum South.” Assistant Professor of History, University of Idaho.
  • Mack, Adam, “‘Good things to eat in suburbia’: Supermarkets and American Consumer Culture, 1930-1970.” Assistant Professor of History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Marrs, Aaron Wagner, “The Iron Horse Turns South: A History of Antebellum Southern Railroads.” Research Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State.
  • McClanahan, Brion (BA, Salisbury; MA, South Carolina) "A Lonely Opposition: James A. Bayard Jr. and the American Civil War"; assist. prof., Chattahoochee Valley
  • Plaag, Eric William, “Strangers in a Strange Land: Northern Travelers and the Coming of the American Civil War.” Independent scholar, consultant, and writer.
  • Schoolfield, Branda (BA, Bob Jones; MEd, Bob Jones) "For the Better Relief of the Poor of This Parish: Public Poor Relief in 18th-Century Charles Town"; adjunct prof., Bob Jones
  • Taylor, Melissa Jane, “‘Experts in misery’? American Consuls in Austria, Jewish Refugees, and Restrictionist Immigration Policy, 1938-1941.” Research Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State.
  • Walsh, Kelli (BA, Univ. Alaska-Fairbanks; MA, Fayetteville State) "Oveta Culp Hobby: A Transformational Leader from the Texas Legislature to Washington, D.C."; adjunct, Fayetteville State

2005

  • Boulware, Tyler W., “‘Rim of the gap’: Negotiating Identity on the Southern Colonial Frontier.” Assistant Professor of History, University of West Virginia.
  • Dawson, Kevin, “Enslaved Watermen in the Atlantic World, 1444-1888.” Assistant Professor of History, Fairfield University.
  • Gantt, Jonathan Wes, “Irish Terrorism, British Counter-terrorism, and United States Foreign Policy, 1865-1922.” Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of South Carolina.
  • Richards, Jeremy Monroe, “The Political Life of Stanley Fletcher Morse.” Assistant Professor of History, Gordon College.

2004

  • Denmark, Lisa Louise, “At the Midnight Hour: Optimism and Disillusionment in Savannah, 1865-1880.” Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Southern University.
  • Johnson, Christopher Leevy, “Undertakings: The Politics of African-American Funeral Directing.” Director, Leevy’s Funeral Home.
  • Keefer, Tracy D., “Eutropius the Presbyter, Cerasia, and Literary Culture in Late Antiquity.” Teacher, Richland Northeast High School, Columbia, South Carolina.
  • Mayer, Mark G., “Power for the People? The John H. Kerr Dam and Federal Hydropower Policy in the Southeast.” Teaching Associate, Coastal Carolina University.
  • Nickless, Karen Kay, “A good faithful sister: The Shaker Sisters of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.” Director, Edisto Island Museum and Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society.
  • Rogers, Jeffery J., “Art ready for battle: William Gilmore Simms and the Civil War.” Assistant Professor of History, Gordon College.
  • Seiler, Lars Winfried, “The Development of an Anti-Opium Ideology in Late Nineteenth-Century America.” Teacher, Spring Valley High School, Columbia, South Carolina.


Recent Articles by USC Graduate Students [ back ]

2006

  • Dawson, Kevin, “Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World,” Journal of American History 92 (March 2006), 1327-1355. Winner of the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for best essay by a graduate student.
  • Gantt, Jonathan Wes,“Clan-na-Gael Terrorism, British Counter-terrorism, and United States Foreign Policy, 1881-1885,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5 (Oct. 2006).
  • Lockhart, Matthew A., “The Trouble with Wilderness Education in the National Park Service: The Case of the Lost Cattle Mounts of Congaree,” The Public Historian: 28 (Spring 2006): 11-30

2005

  • Blosser, Jacob,“Constructing Modernity: Historical Imagery and Religious Identity in Charleston’s Great Awakening,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 106 (Oct. 2005)
  • Haberman, Aaron, “Into the Wilderness: Ronald Reagan, Bob Jones University, and the Political Education of the Christian Right,” The Historian 67 (Summer 2005): 234-253.

2004

  • Marrs, Aaron, “Desertion and Loyalty in the South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865,” Civil War History 50 (March 2004): 47-65.
  • Plaag, Eric, “Let the Constitution Perish': Prigg v. Pennsylvania, Joseph Story, and the Flawed Doctrine of Historical Necessity,” Slavery & Abolition 25 (Dec. 2004): 76-101.

2003

  • Lockhart, Matthew A., Quitting More Than Port Royal: A Political Interpretation of the Siting and Development of Charles Town, South Carolina, 1660-1680, Southeastern Geographer 43 (November 2003): 197-212.
  • Lockhart, Matthew A., “Under the Wings of Columbia: John Lewis Gervais as Architect of South Carolina's 1786 Capital Relocation Legislation,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 104 (July 2003): 176-197.
  • Mack, Adam, “No Illusion of Separation: James L. Bevel, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War,” Peace & Change 28 (Jan. 2003): 108-133.

2001

  • Gannon, Kevin M.,“Escaping Mr. Jefferson’s Plan of Destruction: The Idea of a New England Confederacy, 1803-1804,” Journal of the Early Republic 21 (Fall 2001): 413-443.
  • Marrs, Aaron, “Desertion and Dissatisfaction in Greenville District, South Carolina: 1860-1865,” Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (2001): 39-50. Winner of the Hollis Prize for best article by a graduate student.
  • Wells, Cheryl, “Battle Time: Gender, Modernity, and Confederate Hospitals,” Journal of Social History 35 (Winter 2001): 409-428.


Recent Presentations by USC Graduate Students [ back ]

2008

  • Giauque, Carrie, “The State/Fox Theater: Restoration of a Main Street Icon.” National Council on Public History
  • Levinson, Jan, “The Collections Volunteer Group: Promoting Student Action Behind the Scenes in Local Museums.” American Association of Museums
  • Miller, Rebecca, “Reporting Race and Resistance in Dixie: White Mississippi Media Response to Civil Rights.” Organization of American Historians
  • Ogden, Mary Mac, “The Mystery of Sadie Waters: Miniatures, Misfortune and Material Representation.” 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
    University of Minnesota
  • Prior, David, “American Worldviews and American Nationalism: The Cretan Moment in Reconstruction.” The Historical Society
  • Prior, David, “Civilization, Republic, Nation: Mormon Utah and Reconstruction.” Organization of American Historians
  • Rose, Eric, "A Tale of Two Schisms: Race, Space, and Religion in Charleston, SC, 1815-1835." History Graduate Student Conference, Loyola University Chicago
  • Rounds, Christopher, “Coming Home: Americans and the Commodification of Irish Tourism.” American Conference of Irish Studies/Southern Regional Conference
  • Thompson, Santi, “Queering the South Caroliniana Library.” Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Archives, Library, Museum, and Special Collections Conference, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York Graduate Center
  • Thompson, Tara, “Transforming the Mennonite Martyr Heritage: The Story of Dirk Willems.” Graduate Student Symposium in Religious Studies, Florida State University
  • Tucker, Ann, “The Italian Risorgimento and the American Civil War.” Conference on “Garibaldi Abroad,” Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas, University of South Carolina

2007

  • Bargeron, Eric, “We Can Save this Man’s Life': The Pink Franklin Case and Black Legal Activism in Jim Crow South Carolina.” Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation.
  • Bargeron, Eric, “‘The Word Failure Has Yet to be Written in My Pathway’: The Pink Franklin Case and Black Leadership in Jim Crow-Era South Carolina.” Southern Historical Association.
  • Brown, Nancy, “Making Something from Nothing: The Black Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early 20th-Century Columbia, South Carolina.” Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation.
  • Burrows, Sara Eye, “Private Battles: Black and White Women in Reconstructed South Carolina.” Southern Historical Association.
  • Miller, Rebecca, “The Myth of the Solid South: How Mississippi Press Reaction to Civil Rights Recreates White Identity.” American Historical Association.
  • Ogden, Mary Mac, “A Case of Historic Invisibility: Julia Selden and the
    South Carolina Illiteracy Commission, 1917-1918.” Middle Tennessee
    State University Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's Studies.
  • Ogden, Mary Mac, “Progress in Print” Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global, University of Alberta, Canada
  • Richardson, Phillip, “Dixie by Gaslight: Surveillance, Spectacle, and Lighting Technology in the Old South.” Society for the History of Technology.
  • Shrum, Rebecca, “Learning to See the Self: Mirrors in Early American Society.” American Historical Association.
  • Shrum, Rebecca, “Mirrored Reflections: Shaping Early American Identities in the Looking Glass.” Organization of American Historians.
  • Silva, Kathryn, “Making the Invisible Visible: Weaving African American Women into South Carolina’s Mill History." Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation.

2006

  • Cheezum, Eric, “Where the Wild Things Are: Animals, Images, and the Creation of Regional Identities.” American Society of Environmental Historians.
  • Crosmun, John, “Unlocking the Secret of Greatness: Analyzing the Violin and Bow.” International Committee for the History of Technology.
  • Eye, Sara, “Ashtrays: A Dirty Little Secret.” Southeastern Museums Conference.
  • Hileman, Scott, “Sir Thomas Picton and the Incident at the Coa, 1810: Myth or Reality?” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe.
  • Joyner, Wesley, “The Intellectual Life of Muslim Slaves in America.” British American Nineteenth-Century Historians.
  • Mack, Adam, “’Good Things to Eat in Suburbia’: Supermarkets and Sexual Fantasy in 1950s America.” Popular Culture Association.
  • Malone, Barry F., “Divine Discontent: Nathan Carter Newbold and the Division for Cooperation in Education and Race Relations.” History of Education Society.
  • Millikan, Neal, “Willing To Be In Fortune’s Way: The Role of Fortuna in Eighteenth-Century English State and Colonial Lotteries.” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
  • Ogden, Mary Mac, “Seneca and Scarlet Sister Mary: The Science and Art of Race Progress, 1929-1931.” Graduate Association for African American History.
  • Ogden, Mary Mac, “Gender, Economy and Household Strategies in the New South.” International Gender Studies Conference, University of Vermont.
  • Plaag, Eric, “Traveler’s Time: Temporal Dislocation and Sectional Identity in the Antebellum South.” American Historical Association.
  • Prior, David, “The Cretan Moment in American Reconstruction.” British American Nineteenth-Century Historians.
  • Shrum, Rebecca, “Finding Meaning in the Mirror: Early American Women Shaping Identities in the Looking Glass.” American Studies Association.
  • Stewart, Stephanie, “Cameraman of the Carolinas: H. Lee Waters and Movies of Local People.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.

2005

  • Blosser, Jacob, “Anglican Happiness: The Formulation and Dissemination of Transatlantic Religious Identity in Colonial Virginia.” British Association for American Studies.
  • Blosser, Jacob, “Anglican Pursuits of Happiness: Popular Religion in the Colonial Chesapeake.” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Blosser, Jacob, “The Great Business of Religion: Inculcating Virtue, Happiness, and
    Anglican Identity in Colonial Virginia.” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
  • Blosser, Jacob, “Pursuing Happiness: John Tillotson’s Collected Works, Latitudinarian Theology, and the Making of Transatlantic Anglicanism in Virginia.” Society of Early Americanists.
  • Blosser, Jacob, “Pursuing Happiness: Latitudinarian Thought and Transatlantic Anglican Identity in the Eighteenth Century.” American Historical Association.
  • Boulware, Tyler, “An Intimacy between them ought to be avoided: Indians, Africans, and the Shifting Boundaries of Identity.” American Historical Association.
  • Cheezum, Eric, “Atlantic Crossing or American Original? Woodrow Wilson, Public Administration, and the Johns Hopkins Experience.” American Historical Association.
  • Dawson, Kevin, “A Culture of Cleanliness: West African Slaves’ Impact on Western Hygiene.” Organization of American Historians.
  • Haberman, Aaron, “The Politics of Morality: School Prayer and the Transformation of the Christian Right.” American Historical Association.
  • Hileman, Scott, “The King’s Paladin: Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton and the Battle of Busaco, 1810.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe.
  • Mack, Adam, “The Forgotten Man [and Woman] of the Food Store: Supermarkets and Postwar Gender Ideology.” Organization of American Historians.
  • Mack, Adam, “The Planned Personality: Constructing the Postwar Supermarket.” Business History Conference.
  • Marrs, Aaron, “Slave Labor and Southern Railroads.” Southern Historical Association.
  • Mayo, Georgette, “Following Her Dream: Ethel Bolden, Pioneer Librarian.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
  • Miller, Rebecca, “Rally Around the Flag: Mississippi’s Defense of the Closed Society in Response to the Lynching of Emmett Till.” Stillman College Conference on “The Murder of Emmett Till and the Struggle for Civil Rights.”
  • Tortora, Dan, “How Shall the Soul Shake Off This Weight of Woe: Responses to Death in Colonial Charleston, South Carolina, 1730-1776.” Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association.

2004

  • Bargeron, Eric, “We Will Show Them: Black Protest in Turn-of-the-Century South Carolina.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
  • Blosser, Jacob, “Defining Faith: John Tillotson, George Whitefield, Alexander Garden, and the Formulation of Anglican Ecclesiological Identity in Colonial South Carolina.” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
  • Boulware, Tyler, “The Meaning of ‘Frontier’ in the Eighteenth-Century South.” American Studies Association.
  • Brown, Nancy, “The Color of Money: The Politics of Black Entrepreneurship and Consumerism under Segregation.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
  • Dawson, Kevin, “Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World.” Southern Historical Association.
  • Mack, Adam, “Shoppers Are the Same the World Over? Supermarkets in Comparative Perspective.” Mid-American Conference on History.
  • Malone, Barry, “We Cut Heads: The Black Barbershop as a Public Space.” Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
  • Marrs, Aaron, “Community Relations on an Early United States Railroad.” Early Railways Conference.
  • Reynolds, Michael, “Honor and Evangelicalism at Odds: The Battle over Moral Reform in the Slave South.” American Historical Association.
  • Shrum, Rebecca, “Incorporating the African-American Experience into Historic House Interpretations.” Southeastern Museums Conference.
  • Taylor, Melissa Jane, “Experts in Misery’: American Consuls in Germany and Restrictionist Immigration Policies, 1933-1941.” American Historical Association.
  • Venters, Louis, “With Sure and Steady Progress: The Bahá’í Faith in South Carolina, 1937-1963.” Association for Bahá’í Studies—North America.


Recent Books by USC Graduate Students [ back ]

  • Busick, Sean R., A Sober Desire For History: William Gilmore Simms As Historian (University of South Carolina Press, 2005).
  • Downey, Tom, Planting A Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, And Manufacturers In The Southern Interior, 1790-1860 (Louisiana State University Press, 2005)
  • Wells, Cheryl, Civil War Time: Temporality & Identity In America, 1861-1865 (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
  • Matthews, Marty D., Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney (University of South Carolina Press, 2004).
  • Lesesne, Henry H., A History of the University of South Carolina, 1940-2000 (University of South Carolina Press, 2002).
  • Macaulay, John Allen, Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution (University of Alabama Press, 2001).
  • Krawczynski, Keith, William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot (Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
  • Pennington, Reina, Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat ( University Press of Kansas, 2001).
  • Smith, Mark M., Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 1997). Winner of the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians and the book prize of the South Carolina Historical Society.


 
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