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USC's
Graduate Students in History
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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. |
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Recent
Dissertations and Placements [ back ]
2007
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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
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Hileman, Scott (BA, Longwood; MA, Winthrop) "Sir Thomas Picton, 1758-1815"; assist. prof., Gordon College
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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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