Education

University of South Carolina. Ph.D, 1995.

University of South Carolina. MA, 1991.

University of Southampton, England. BA (Jt. Hons.), History and Sociology, 1989.

Positions Held

Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina, Fall, 2004 - Present.

Professor, Department of History; Affiliate, African American Studies, University of South Carolina, Fall, 2001-present.

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina, Spring, 1999-Fall, 2001.

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina, fall, 1996-Spring, 1999.

Lecturer (equivalent to tenure-track, Assistant Professor), Department of Economic and Social History, University of Birmingham, England, fall, 1994-Fall, 1996.

Publications
Books:

How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming, spring 2006).

Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Slave Revolt , ed. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming, fall 2005).

Hearing History: A Reader, ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004).

Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).

The Old South, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000).

Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Reprinted: “Debating the Profitability of Antebellum Southern Agriculture,” in Rick Halpern, ed., Slavery and Emancipation (Blackwell, 2002)

Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). Co-winner of the 1997 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians; 1997 Book of the Year, South Carolina Historical Society.

Articles :

“Finding Deficiency: On Eugenics, Economics, and Certainty,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 64 (July, 2005).

“Making Sense of Social History,” Journal of Social History 37 (September, 2003), pp.165-186.

“Echoes in Print: Method and Causation in Aural History,” Journal of The Historical Society 2 (Summer/Fall, 2002), pp. 317-336.

"The Volume of History: Listening to 19th-Century America," The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), December 14, 2001, pp.B1, 7-9.

"Remembering Mary, Shaping Revolt: Reconsidering the Stono Rebellion," Journal of Southern History LXVII (August 2001), pp.513-534.

"Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America," Journal of The Historical Society 1(June, 2000), pp.63-97.
Reprinted: Michael Bull and Les Back, eds., Into Sound: A Reader in Auditory Cultures (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
Mark M. Smith, ed., Hearing History: A Reader (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004)

"Modern Time, Old South," National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors' Bulletin 42 (June, 2000), pp.345-354.

"Culture, Commerce, and Calendar Reform in Colonial America," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., LV, (October, 1998), pp.557-584.

"Old South Time in Comparative Perspective," American Historical Review 101 (December, 1996), pp.1432-1469.
Reprinted: "Plantation Management by the Clock," in Paul Escott and David R. Goldfield, eds., Major Problems in the History of the American South, 2nd edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), pp.192-200; “An Old South by the Clock,” in Mark M. Smith, ed., The Old South, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000), pp.43-65.

"Time, Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in the Ante-Bellum American South," Past and Present 150 (February, 1996), pp.142-168.

"Counting Clocks, Owning Time: Detailing and Interpreting Clock and Watch Ownership in the American Slave South, 1739-1865," Time and Society 3 (October, 1994), pp. 321-339.

"'All Is Not Quiet in Our Hellish County': Facts, Fiction, Politics, and Race—The Ellenton Riot of 1876," South Carolina Historical Magazine 95 (April, 1994), pp.101-114.

"Windrushers and Orbiters: Towards an Understanding of the 'Official Mind' and Colonial Immigration to Britain, 1945-1951," Immigrants and Minorities 10 (November, 1991), pp.3-18.

Chapters in/Introductions to Edited Books:

“The Past as a Foreign Country: Reintegrating Foreign Policy into the History of Reconstruction,” in New Perspectives on Reconstruction, Thomas J. Brown, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Making Scents Make Sense: White Noses, Black Smells, and Desegregation,” in American Behavioral History, Peter Sterns, ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2005), pp.179-198

"Introduction" to John E. Cairnes, The Slave Power: Its Character, Career & Probable Designs: being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest (1863) in the Southern Classics Series published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

"Of Bells, Booms, Sounds, and Silences: Listening to the Civil War South," in The War Was You and Me: Civilians and the American Civil War, Joan Cashin, ed. (Princeton University Press, 2002), pp.9-34.

"The Plantation Economy," John B. Boles, ed., The Blackwell Companion to the American South (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp.103-117.

"Time, Sound, and the Virginia Slave," John Saillant, ed., Afro-Virginian History and Culture (New York: Garland, 1999), pp.29-60.

Encyclopaedia Entries and Short Essays

“Stono Rebellion,” Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, John P. Resch, Richard Jensen, Sally McMillen, and G. Kurt Piehler, eds. (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming).

"Clocks and Time," Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (forthcoming).

"Stono Rebellion," The South Carolina Encyclopedia (forthcoming).

"Plantation System" and "Reconstruction" in John Mack Faragher, ed., The American Heritage Encyclopaedia of America History (New York: Henry Holt, 1998).

"Agriculture to 1860," in Peter J. Parish, ed., Reader's Guide to American History (Cambridge: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), pp.23-25.

Book Reviews:

American Historical Review
Journal of Social History
The Journal of The Historical Society
Journal of American History
CommonPlace: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
Journal of the Early Republic
Georgia Historical Quarterly
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Slavery and Abolition
South Carolina Historical Magazine
Civil War History
Southern Historian

Newspaper Articles and Letters:

"Strange Days," Lingua Franca, April, 1999, p.3.

"Fall back in time," Raleigh News and Observer, Sunday, October 26, 1997, E, pp.1, 5.

Awards

University of South Carolina Educational Foundation Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences (2000) (the University's highest research award)

Co-winner of the Avery O. Craven Award to Mastered by the Clock, given by the Organization of American Historians for the most original book published in 1997 on the coming of the Civil War and the era of Reconstruction.

Book of the Year (1997), South Carolina Historical Society, awarded to Mastered by the Clock.

Book/Article Manuscripts and Major Grant Applications Refereed:

University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
Cornell University Press
University of North Carolina Press
University Press of Florida
Cambridge University Press
National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Acces
National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grants
Referee for articles submitted to Journal of Southern History; Pacific Historical Review; Journal of American History; The Journal of The Historical Society.
Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK

Papers Presented

“Losing Sight, Finding Race: Towards a History of Southern Race Relations,” Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, February 9, 2004

“Making Sense of Social History,” Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 21, 2003

“Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America,” Seminar, Music in Context, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 21, 2003

“Reconstruction in America: The State of the Field,” The Historical Society’s Third Conference, Historical Reconstructions, Atlanta, Ga., May 16-18, 2002.

"Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, Parts 1 and 2," delivered at the lecture series, "North vs. South: Sectionalism and the Civil War, University of South Carolina—Beaufort, January 9 and 23, 2002 (by invitation).

"Montgomery Time(s): Temporal Strategies and African-American Resistance, 1955-1956." On a panel, "Producing Time(s), Contesting Time(s): Temporal Systems in the United States, 1880-1980," with Carlene Stephens, Alexis McCrossen, Maggie Dennis, and Michael O'Malley, American Historical Association, Boston, January, 2001.

"Hard Listening to the American Civil War," at a conference on "Listening to Archives," University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, November 24, 2000 (by invitation).

"Mastered by the Clock: The Quest for Economic Development and Social Order in the Old South," South Carolina Rural Development Council Annual Meeting, Moncks Corner, SC, Nov.17, 1999 (by invitation).

"Listening to the Heard World of Antebellum America," College of Charleston, SC, Nov.12, 1999 (by invitation).

"Questioning Colored Peoples' Time: The Importance of Punctuality for Black Resistance in the American South, 1739 and 1955," on a panel, "Diaspora Time: Time, Race, History, and Development in East Africa and the American South," at a conference, "On Time: History, Science, Commemoration," at the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool, England, a British Society for the History of Science and Royal Historical Society conference, 16-19 September, 1999 (by invitation).

"Aural Worlds: Listening to Sound, Noise, Section, and Class in Nineteenth-Century America," Department of History, University of California, San Diego, May 11, 1999 (by invitation).

"Mastered by the Clock: The Importance of Clocks, Watches, and Time in the Old South," 19th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Williamsburg, VA, October 29-31, 1998, Keynote address, James Arthur Lecture (by invitation: former James Arthur Lecturers include David S. Landes).

"Modern Time, Old South," South Carolina Humanities Festival, Columbia, SC, April 18, 1998.

"Soundscapes in Modernizing America: Toward Hearing History, Class, and Power." On a panel, "Hidden Dimensions of Modernization: Time, Sound, and Power," with Andrew Doyle, William J. Baker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Nan Woodruff, American Historical Association, Seattle, January, 1998.

"On Time," Roundtable discussant, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 23-24 (honorarium included).

"Working Class Soundscapes in Nineteenth-Century America: Toward Hearing History, Culture, and Power," Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Davidson College, NC, March 20-22, 1997.

"Time, Calendars, and Cultures: The 1752 Calendar Shift in North America." On a panel, "Empire and the Trans-Atlantic Transfer of British Culture, 1577-1752," with Joyce Chaplin and David Harris Sacks. North American Conference on British Studies, Loyola University of Chicago, October 18-20, 1996.

"Old South Time in Comparative Perspective." Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, February 12, 1996.

"Old South Time in Comparative Perspective." Department of History, Duke University, Durham, NC, January 19, 1996.

"Southern Time in Comparative Perspective." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the St. George Tucker Society, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, June, 1995.

"Time, Slavery, and Plantation Capitalism." Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge Research Seminar Series. February 6, 1995.

"'My Father Was a Timekeeper . . . My Mother Kept a Clock.'" Paper presented on a panel, "Beyond Brer Tales and Other Stories: New(aunced) Approaches to Slave Minds and Slave Studies," with Mechal Sobel, Charles Joyner, and Alex Byrd, Southern Historical Association, Louisville, KY, November 9-12, 1994.

"Time, Slavery, and Progress: Exploring the Dialectic of Time in the Master-Slave Relationship in the Plantation South, 1760-1865." Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Lexington, KY, April, 1994.

"Time, Society, and the Mind: From Time-Cognizance to Time-Discipline in the American Slave South, 1700-1865." Third Social History Conference, University of Cincinnati, October, 1993.

"Contours of Capitalism in a Slave Society: Time, Work-Discipline, and Alienation in the American Slave South." University of South Carolina Graduate History Association Symposium, Spring, 1992.

Interviews

New York Times, December 23, 2003 on sensory history.

Carolina Minutes, South Carolina Public Radio, February 5, 2002: on Listening to Nineteenth-Century America.

On-camera interview, WJWJ-Beaufort, SC, January 24, 2002: on the sounds of nineteenth-century America.

Walter Edgar's Journal, South Carolina Public Radio, November 12, 2001: on listening to the heard worlds of nineteenth-century America.

Carolina Minutes, South Carolina Public Radio, August 7, 2000: on listening to the heard worlds of nineteenth-century America.

BBC-Radio 4, September 8, 1999, Liverpool, UK: on time in the American South.

React Magazine, September 1, 1999: on dates and time in Revolutionary America,

South Carolina Public Radio, April 28, 1999: on Mastered by the Clock.

On-camera interview, WLTX News 19, Columbia, SC (CBS), WIS News, Columbia, SC (NBC), WOLO, Columbia, SC (ABC), WSPA, Spartanburg, SC (CBS), April 2, 1999: on Daylight Saving Time.

Observer (Charlotte), February 9, 1999: slavery in colonial South Carolina.

Wall Street Journal (New York), February 3, 1999: dates and time in colonial America.

News and Courier (Charleston), February 27, 1999: free African Americans in antebellum South Carolina.

WIS radio, December 1998-January 1999: on "USC's Warwick Exchange," and "Time in the South".

WSCQ SUNNY 100 (CBS) Columbia, January 28, 1998: on-air interview on time-consciousness in the Old South.

WOLO TV 25 (ABC) Columbia, Feb. 1997: on-camera interview on the Massachusetts 54th Regiment.

"Time was Money in the Old South," interview, Richmond Times-Dispatch, B, p.1, Saturday, May 22, 1993.

Teaching Experience

University of South Carolina:
HIST 111: America to 1865
HIST 112: America Since 1865
HIST 404: Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 442: The Old South

HIST 492H: The Historian's Craft
HIST 616: Reconstruction of the Nation
HIST 702: Graduate Reading Seminar: Middle America, 1789-1877
HIST 712: Independent Study, Themes in Middle America
HIST 785: Graduate Reading Seminar: Comparative History of Time
HIST 852: Graduate Research Seminar on Antebellum America

Scholarly Associations/Professional Activities
Co-Editor, Southern Classics Series published by the University of South Carolina Press, spring 2003-present
Member, Organization of American Historians membership Committee, 2003-present
Member, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, 2003-2004
Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Southern History, November, 2001-November, 2005.
Member, Board of Governors, The Historical Society (Fall 2000-present)
Chairman, Nominating Committee, The Historical Society (Summer 2000-present)
Member, Editorial Board, The South Carolina Encyclopaedia (Summer 2000-present)
Member of the M. E. Bradford Dissertation Award Committee, St. George Tucker Society,
Emory University, 1998, 1999
Member, Student Affairs Committee, The Historical Society, Spring, 1998.
Bureau Speaker for the South Carolina Humanities Council, Fall, 1999-present.

Member:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association.
South Carolina Historical Society
Fellow, St. George Tucker Society
The Historical Society