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Education
Ph.D. in history
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000)
B.A. in history
summa cum laude, Rollins College (1990)
Teaching
Assistant Professor
Coordinator of the American Studies Program
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Teaching United States history, contact to 1877 and 1877 to present, Gilded Age and Progressive era, Civil War and Reconstruction, African American history, American cultural history, and the American Studies core, as well as a special topics course on Edgar Allan Poe's America; click here for more information. (Fall 2001 to present).
Visiting Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Taught United States history, contact to 1865 (Fall 2000).
Instructor
Stanley H. Kaplan Inc.
Taught GRE prep courses (1990-1999).
Publications
The Todds:
First Family of the Civil War
A history of one of the more bitterly divided families of the Civil War -- the first family of the United States. Under contract with Houghton Mifflin.
Princes of Cotton:
Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860
An edited collection of diaries written by young men who came of age just before the Civil War. University of Georgia Press and the Southern Texts Society (2007).
All That Makes a Man:
Love & Ambition in the Civil War South
A study of the confusing mess Southern elite men made of love and ambition, first in their antebellum occupations, and finally in their efforts to erect a Confederate nation. Finalist for the 2004 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship. Oxford University Press (2003)
"When Metal Meets Mettle"
Article published in North & South (July 2006) on the grim nature of Civil War wounds -- their physical effect on the body and their psychological effect on the mind.
"The Lithographer's War"
An illustrated examination of Civil War propaganda published in North & South (May 2005).
"The Girl I Left Behind Me:
Confederate Soldiers and Their Womenfolk"
Article published in North & South (February 2003) revisiting the question of why Confederate soldiers fought the Civil War.
"The South: From Old to New"
Historiographical overview of the South from 1820 to 1900, Companion to Nineteenth Century America (Blackwell, 2000).
"When Mail Was Armor:
Envelopes of the Great Rebellion, 1861-1865"
Article published in Southern Cultures (Fall 1998) with full-color illustrations, a study of Civil War iconography.
"More Alluring at a Distance:
Absentee Patriarchy and the Thomas Butler King Family"
Article published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly (Winter 1997) examining the effects of Thomas and Anna King's marriage on the lives, imaginations, and ambitions of their children.
Book Reviews
Love and Duty:
Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family
Review for the Alabama Review (forthcoming)
The Divided Family in Civil War America
Review for Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (forthcoming)
Civil War Time:
Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865
Review for the American Historical Review (October 2006)
Southern Single Blessedness:
Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865
Review for Journal of the Early Republic (Fall 2006)
The Last Generation:
Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
Review for Southern Cultures (Summer 2006)
Facing America:
Iconography and the Civil War
Review for the American Historical Review (October 2005)
The Great Catastrophe of My Life:
Divorce in the Old Dominion
Review for the Journal of Social History (Fall 2005)
Hearts of Darkness:
Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition
Review for the Journal of the Early Republic (Summer 2003)
Bathed in Blood:
Hunting and Mastery in the Old South
Review for American Nineteenth Century History (Spring 2003)
The Genuine Article:
Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
Review for the Journal of the Early Republic (Summer 2002).
Through Ordinary Eyes: The Civil War Correspondence of Rufus Robbins and
Doctor to the Front: The Recollections of Confederate Surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood, 1861-1865
Joint review for the Journal of Southern History (May 2002).
The Lines Are Drawn:
Political Cartoons of the Civil War
Review for Southern Cultures (Spring 2000).
The Hardisons:
A Southern Odyssey
Review for the Georgia Historical Quarterly (Winter 1998).
Conferences
"The Self-Loathing Southern Male:
Henry Craft and the Burdens of Manhood"
Presented at the 2000 Southern Historical Association Meeting, Louisville. Paper examines male depression in the antebellum South.
"Politics as Epic Poem:
Laurence M. Keitt and the War Against Stagnation"
Presented at the Citadel Conference on the South, April 2000, Charleston. Paper examines the commingled romantic and classical/historical threads of Keitt's brand of fire-eating.
"Scribbling Women:
Epistolary Culture in the Antebellum South"
Delivered at the William Gilmore Simms and the Development of American Letters Conference, April 1997, Chapel Hill; a study of the psychosocial uses to which antebellum Southern women put letter and diary writing.
Conference Coordinator
Eleventh Annual Southern Intellectual History Circle Meeting, February 1998, Chapel Hill.
Conference Coordinator
1997 William Gilmore Simms Conference, "William Gilmore Simms and the Development of American Letters," April 1997, Chapel Hill.
Work Experience
Faculty Advisor, UNCP History Club
Serve as the coordinator of the History Club, which has about thirty student members. The club meets bi-weekly to discuss a particular topic, such as: North Carolina in the Civil War, Stalingrad as a turning point of World War II, John Brown's sanity, Franco-American relations, and lynching in the era of Jim Crow.
American Studies Coordinator, UNCP
Advise all the majors and teach the core courses in American Studies; hold informational meetings to attract and inform potential majors; work with faculty-members to develop new courses for the discipline.
Publications Specialist
Center for the Study of the American South
Designer, developer, and maintainer of the Center and SOHP websites; editorial intern for Southern Cultures; moderator of the Southern Cultures discussion forum; general oversight of various aspects of Center publications and publicity (1995 to 1999).
Assistant Network Administrator
Institute for Research in Social Science
Designed the Institute's website; developed ASP pages, perl and java scripts to run on UNIX and NT web servers that I installed and maintain; assisted with the various tasks related to administering a computer network (1999 to 2001).
Freelance Web Designer
Designed and implemented websites for a variety of educational, non-profit, and commercial organizations. References available upon request (1997 to 2001).
Honors
National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow (2006-2007)
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship (Gilder Lehrman Institute, 2006)
Scholarly Research Fellowship (Kentucky Historical Society, 2005)
Outstanding Teaching Award, 2004-2005 (UNC-Pembroke)
C. Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowship (Filson Historical Society, 2005)
Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship (finalist, 2004)
Doris J. Quinn Fellow (1998)
UNC Dissertation Fellow (Spring 1997)
Mellon Dissertation Fellow (1995)
Outstanding Student of History, Rollins College (1990)
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