JOHN C. INSCOE
Albert B. Saye Professor of History Department of History, 324 LeConte Hall
University Professor University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
Editor, The New Georgia Encyclopedia (706) 542-2299 jinscoe@uga.edu
Personal:
Born: Morganton, North Carolina, November 3, l951
Home: 140 Heatherwood Lane, Athens GA 30602
Home Phone: (706) 543-0326
Family: Jane H. Inscoe, wife; two children, b. 1984, 1988
Education:
1970-1974 Davidson College
B.A. in History, l974
1978-1984 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. in American History, l980
Ph.D. in American History, l985
Teaching Experience:
1974-1978 Darlington School, Rome, Georgia (high school)
1979-l984 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Teaching Assistant
University of Georgia, History Department
1984-l988 Instructor
1989-1990 Assistant Professor
1990-1998 Associate Professor
1998- Professor
2000-2010 Adjunct Professor, Social Foundations, College of Education
2006- University Professor
2010- Albert B. Saye Professor of History
Rice University
1988-1989 Visiting Assistant Professor
Tulane University
1991 Visiting Associate Professor, Fall
Editing Experience:
1985-1988 Associate Editor, Georgia Historical Quarterly
1988-l989 Visiting Editor, Journal of Southern History
1989-2000 Editor, Georgia Historical Quarterly
2000- Editor, The New Georgia Encyclopedia (on-line)
Publications:
BOOKS: (authored)
Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, l989; rev. ed., l996)
Recipient of: Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, l989
W.D. Weatherford Award, l990
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina’s Civil War, co-authored with
Gordon B. McKinney (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000)
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008)
Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography (Athens: UGA
Press, 2011)
Recipient of: Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, 2012
Malcolm and Muriel Bell Award, Georgia Historical Society, 2012
BOOKS: (edited)
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: A Southern Historian and His Critics, co-edited with John David Smith (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, l990, Studies in Historiography Series, No. 1; paper rpt. UGA Press, l993)
Southern Appalachia and the South: A Region within a Region, edited, (Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, l991) Proceedings of the Appalachian Studies Conference
Georgia in Black and White: Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State, l865-1950 edited (Athens: UGA Press, l994)
James Edward Oglethorpe: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy, A Tercentenary Commemoration, edited (Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, l997)
Appalachians and Race: From Slavery to Segregation in the Mountain South, edited (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000)
Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South, co-edited with. Robert C. Kenzer (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001)
The New Georgia Encyclopedia, editor, 1999-2012, on-line reference work, project of Georgia
Humanities Council, UGA Press, Office of the Governor, and Galileo, launched 2004,
Recipient of: “Best Reference Source on the Web,” Library Journal, 2004
Helen and Martin Schwartz Prize for Public Humanities Programs, 2005
History in the Media Award, Georgia Historical Society, 2006
Leadership in History Award, American Association of State and Local
History, 2007
Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas, co-edited with
Lesley Gordon (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2005)
NGE Companion to Georgia Literature, co-edited with Hugh Ruppersburg (Athens: UGA Press, 2007)
The Civil War in Georgia: An NGE Companion, edited (Athens: UGA Press, 2011)
Recipient of: Leadership in History Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History, 2012
The Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted, Selections (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, Bedford Series of History and Culture, 2014)
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Appalachia on Film: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South
Of Altamont and Appalachia: Thomas Wolfe and the Highland South
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Carolina Slave Names: An Index to Acculturation,” Journal of Southern History 49 (November l983); rpt. in Paul Finkelman, ed., The African-American Experience,
Vol. 2 (New York: Garland Publishers, l992)
“Mountain Masters: Slaveholding in Western North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review 61 (April l984)
“Diversity and Vitality in Antebellum Appalachian Society: Commerce and Community in Western North Carolina,” in Sam Gray, ed., The Many Faces of Appalachia (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, l984)
“Thomas Clingman, Mountain Whiggery, and the Southern Cause,” Civil War History 33 (March l987)
“Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman on Stage and Screen: North Carolina Reacts,” North
Carolina Historical Review 64 (April l987)
“Faulkner, Race, and Appalachia,” South Atlantic Quarterly 86 (Summer l987)
“Memories of a Presbyterian Mission Worker in the Kentucky Mountains, l918-1921:
an Interview with Rubie R. Cunningham,” Appalachian Journal 15 (Winter l988)
“Mountain Unionism, Secession, and Regional Self-Image: The Contrasting Cases of
Western North Carolina and East Tennessee,” in Winfred B. Moore and Joseph
Tripp, eds., Looking South: Chapters in the Story of an American Region (West-
port, Conn.: Greenwood Press, l986)
“Olmsted in Appalachia: A Connecticut Yankee Encounters Slavery and Racism in the
Southern Highlands, l854,” Slavery & Abolition 9 (September l988)
“Fatherly Advice on Secession: Edward Jones Erwin’s Letters to His Son at Davidson College, l860-l861,” American Presbyterians (Summer l991), 97-109
“The Confederate Homefront Sanitized: Joel Chandler Harris’s On the Plantation and Sectional Reconciliation,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 76 (Fall l992), 652-74
“Coping in Confederate Appalachia: Portrait of a Mountain Woman and Her Community at War,” North Carolina Historical Review (October l992), 388-414
“Masters as Profiteers, Slaves as Subversives: The Dynamics of Race in Confederate Appalachia,” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 10 (Summer l993),
“Generation and Gender in Naming Patterns among Carolina Slaves: A Challenge to the Gutman Thesis,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 10 (October l993), 252-63
“Mountain Masters as Confederate Opportunists: The Profitability of Slavery in Western North Carolina, l861-l865,” Slavery & Abolition 14 (April l995), 85-100
“Race and Racism in Nineteenth Century Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities,” in Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Billings, Pudup, Waller (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, l995), 103-131
“The Civil War’s Empowerment of an Appalachian Woman: The l864 Slave Purchases of Mary Bell,” in Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past, ed. Patricia Morton (Athens: UGA Press, l995), 61-81
“Southern Autobiography as Southern History: Personalizing the Past,” Introduction to Reading Our Lives: An Anthology of Southern Autobiography (Auburn University, l995), 1-24
“Appalachian Otherness, Real and Perceived” (essay on Northeast Georgia) in The New Georgia Guide (Athens: UGA Press, l996), 165-203.
“‘Moving through Deserter Country’: Fugitive Accounts of the Inner Civil War in Southern Appalachia” in The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, l997), 158-186.
“Slavery, Freedom, Frontier. . . and Hollywood? ‘The Journey of August King’ in Historical Perspective,” Appalachian Journal 24 (Winter l997), 204-215
“Appalachian Odysseus: Love, War, and Bestsellerdom in the Blue Ridge” [review essay of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain], Appalachian Journal (Spring 1998), 330-37.
“The Racial ‘Innocence’ of Appalachia: William Faulkner and the Mountain South,” in Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Region, ed. Dwight Billings and Gurney Norman (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, l999), 103-31.
“Highland Households Divided: Familial Deceptions, Diversions, and Divisions in Southern Appalachia’s Civil War,” (co-authored with Gordon B. McKinney), in “Enemies of the Country”: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South, ed. John C. Inscoe and Robert Kenzer (Athens: UGA Press, 2001), 158-86.
“The Discovery of Appalachia: Regional Revisionism as Scholarly Renaissance,” The Blackwell Companion to the American South, ed. John B. Boles (London: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), 369-86.
“Frederick Law Olmsted: A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton’s Court,” in James C.
Klotter, ed., The Human Tradition in the American South (New York: Scholarly
Resources, 2004)
“Slavery and the African-American Experience in Nineteenth Century Appalachia,” in
High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place [college text], ed. Tyler Blethen and Richard Straw (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004)
“Race and Remembrance in West Virginia: John Henry for a Post-Modernist Age,” Journal
of Appalachian Studies 10 (Spring/Fall 2004), 85-95.
“Talking Heroines: Elite Mountain Women as Chroniclers of Stoneman’s Raid, April 1865,”
in Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas, ed. Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2005)
“Black, White, and Southern: Autobiography and the Complexities of Race,” Governor’s Annual Humanities Lecture (pamphlet published by Georgia Humanities Council, 2005)
“’All Manner of Defeated, Shiftless, Shifty, Pathetic and Interesting Good People’: Autobiographical Encounters with Southern White Poverty,” in Martin Crawford, ed., Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars (Athens: UGA Press, 2006)
‘’Sense of Place, Sense of Being: The Intersection of Geography and Spirit in Recent Appalachian Autobiography,” Journal of Appalachian Studies (Fall 2006)
“Guerrilla War and Remembrance,” Appalachian Journal (Fall 2006); expanded version in Sandra L. Ballard and Leila E. Weinstein, eds., Neighbor to Neighbor: A Memoir of Family, Community and Civil War in Appalachian North Carolina (Boone, NC: Center for Appalachian Studies, 2007).
“Unionists in the Attic: The Shelton Laurel Massacre Dramatized,” North and South 10 (October 2007)
“’To Do Justice to North Carolina’: The War’s End According to Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Zebulon B. Vance and David L. Swain,” in Paul D. Escott, ed., North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2008) [Four of my graduate students are also contributors to this volume.]
“’A Northern Wedge in the Heart of Appalachia’: Explaining Civil War Loyalties in the
Age of Appalachian Discovery, 1900-1920,” in Andrew Slap, ed., Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War’s Aftermath (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010) [Three of my graduate students are also contributors to this volume.]
“The ‘Ferocious Character’ of Antebellum Georgia’s Gold Country: Frontier Lawlessness
and Violence in Fact and Fiction,” in Bruce E. Stewart, ed., Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011)
“Willa Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl in Appalachian Context,” Appalachian Journal
39 (Fall 2011/Winter 2012), pp. 126-36.
“Hollywood, History, and the Highland South: Teaching Appalachia through Film,” in
Patricia M. Gantt and Theresa L. Burriss, eds., Appalachia in the Classroom (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013)
“Lillian Smith, Humanist,” in Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Clark, eds., Georgia
Women, Vol. 2 (Athens: UGA Press, 2014)
“Mary Martin Sloop: Mountain Miracle Worker,” in Michele Gillespie and Sally McMillen, eds., North Carolina Women, Vol. 1 (Athens: UGA Press, 2014)
“Women on a Mission: Southern Appalachia’s ‘Benevolent Workers” on Film,” in Marie Tedesco and Connie Rice, eds., Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015)
“’The Strength of the Hills’: Representations of Appalachian Wilderness as Civil War Refuge,” in Brian Drake, ed., The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War (Athens: UGA Press, 2015)
“Tales of Race, Romance, and Irregular Warfare: Guerrillas Fictionalized, 1862-1866,” in Joseph Belien, and Matthew C. Hulbert, eds., Unfolding the Black Flag: The Civil War Guerrilla in History and Myth (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015)
“’A Love Affair with the People of the Back Parts of the Country’: Elia Kazan, the New Deal, and East Tennessee on Film,” Appalachian Journal (forthcoming)
“Feeling Awful Southern . . . Or Not?” in Orville V. Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr. eds., Becoming Southern Writers: Essay in Honor of Charles Joyner (Columbia: University of
South Carolina Press, forthcoming 2016)
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS:
“Reflections on a Visiting Editorship Experience,” Editing History (Newsletter of the Conference of Historical Journals) (Spring l990)
Fourteen biographical sketches in The Biographical Dictionary of North Carolina, ed. Powell (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, l992- l996)
Three entries in Historical Dictionary of Civil Rights in the United States, ed. Lowery and Marszalek (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, l993)
Twenty-eight entries in The Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, ed. Current (New York: Simon & Schuster, l993)
Editor, Appalink (Newsletter of the Appalachian Studies Association), l991-l993
“Race and Southern History: Complexifying the Past,” UGA Research Reporter, (Winter l995)
“An Adaptable Institution: Slavery in Western North Carolina,” Tar Heel Junior Historian [for 8th graders] (Fall l995)
“Talking Teaching at the University of Georgia,” (with Tom Ganschow), AHA Perspectives (April l996)
Six encyclopedia entries in The Encyclopedia of North Carolina, ed. Powell (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2006)
“Slave Names and Naming Practices” for The Encyclopedia of Slavery (New York: Macmillan, l998)
“Missouri Compromise,” encyclopedia entry for The Oxford Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Participant in Forum on “Appalachian Studies vs. Southern Studies,” Appalachian Journal
(Fall 2002).
Four entries for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
2006)
Multiple (14 +) entries for the New Georgia Encyclopedia (on-line)
Introduction to new edition of John A. Caruso, The Appalachian Frontier (1959) (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 2002)
“Mountain Women, Mountain War,” part of a roundtable discussion of the film Cold Mountain, Appalachian Journal (Spring/Summer 2004).
Three entries for Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary, rev. ed. (Baton Rouge: LSU
Press, 2006)
“Irregular Warfare and Its Impact on the Civil War,” participant in roundtable discussion,
North and South, 11 (May 2009)
“Bringing History Home,” short essay for Loch Johnson et al., eds., Chalk Talk: Teaching Tips from the UGA Teaching Academy (2010)
“Ten Favorite Moments from Southern Autobiography,” on “Bowtied and Fried: The Official Blog of the Southern Roundtable” http://southernroundtable.wordpress.com 2011
“War at Every Door” [on film Pharaoh’s Army and Appalachia’s irregular war] Civil War Monitor 3 (Winter 2013), 58-77.
“The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan”: A Review Essay on Matthew Salafia’s Slavery’s Borderland in Southern Spaces (November 2013) www.southernspaces.org
“The Georgia Roots of Alfred Uhry,” Saporta Report, March 2, 2015 on-line http//:saportareport.com
“Recent Autobiographies Reveal a Diverse and Complex South,” November 9, 2015, http//:saportareport.com
BOOK REVIEWS:
American Historical Review (April l996, April l997, October 2005, October 2006, April 2015); Journal of American History (June l991, December l997, December 2000 [film review], March 2002, March 2004, December 2004, December 2009, December 2014); Journal of Southern History (August l986, August l992, May l993, August l996, May 1999, Nov. 2000, Nov. 2003, February 2007, May 2008, Feb. 2013); Civil War History (March l988, December l991, June 1999, March 2001, June 2006, March 2014); Journal of the Early Republic (Summer l986, Winter l991, Spring 2001, forthcoming); William & Mary Quarterly (October 1998); North Carolina Historical Review (January l984; April l986, July l986, January l993, January l994, January l996, January 2003, April 2008); Agricultural History (April l995, forthcoming); Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Summer 1993, Summer 2003); Australian Journal of American Studies (July l994); Appalachian Journal (Spring l986, Fall l986, Spring l990, Winter l991, Spring l994, Summer l996, Winter 1999, Winter 2000, Winter 2001, Winter/Spring 2003, Summer 2005, Fall/Winter 2007); Georgia Historical Quarterly (Fall l985, Spring l986, Fall l988, Summer l992, Fall l998, Spring 2007, Summer 2011); Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (October l991); American Literature (June l990); Alabama Review (Spring l993); Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Winter l987, Winter l990, Summer l993, Winter l995); Locus (Fall l990); Journal of Appalachian Studies (Spring l997; Fall 2003, Fall 2008); Journal of Southwest Georgia History (l996); Southern Cultures (Winter 2002, Fall 2003); South Carolina Magazine of History (July 2002); The Historian (April 2005); The Blue & the Gray (October 2000, October 2003)); Ohio Valley History (Fall 2006); Maryland Historical Magazine (Spring 2006); H-South (2007, 2009); Civil War Book Reviews (on-line) (2008, 2009)
Program Participation:
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES:
“Mountain Masters: Slaveholding in Western North Carolina,” Appalachian Studies
Conference, Pipestem, West Virginia, March l983
“The Clansman on Stage and Screen: North Carolina Reacts,” Southern Historical
Association, Louisville, Kentucky, November l984
“Diversity in Antebellum Mountain Life: The Towns of Southern Appalachia,” Appa-
lachian Studies Conference, Unicoi State Park, Ga., March l984 (Winner of the
Student Paper Competition of the Appalachian Consortium)
“Faulkner, Race, and Appalachia,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Boone, N.C., March l986
“Antebellum Appalachia: How Far Out of the Mainstream South?” Invited lecture before Western North Carolina Historical Association, UNC-Asheville, N.C., April l986
“Mountain Unionism during the Secession Crisis: The Contrasting Cases of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee,” Citadel Conference on the South, Charleston, S.C., April l987
“Slave Rebellion in the First Person: The Literary Confessions of Nat Turner and Dessa
Rose,” Southern Historical Association, Norfolk, Va., November l988
“Kinship, Wealth, and Political Power in Antebellum Appalachia: Burke County, N.C.
as Case Study,” Appalachian Studies Conference, West Virginia University, March l989
“The Military Significance of East Tennessee Unionism,” Symposium on the Civil War in East Tennessee, Knoxville, July l990
“‘This Holy and Uncalled for War’: Women, Slaves, and the Confederate War Effort in the Carolina Highlands,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Asheville, N.C., March l992
“Coping in Confederate Appalachia: The Wartime Tribulations of Mary Bell,” Organization of American Historians, Chicago, April l992
“Antislavery Appalachia? Race and Racism in the Slaveholding Highlands,” Society of Historians of the Early Republic, Gettysburg, Pa., July l992
“Slaves and Slaveholders in Western North Carolina: Newly Discovered Sources and Resources,” Invited Lecture and Workshops, Western Carolina University, March l993
“African-American and Appalachia: The Anomalies of Race in the Mountain South,” Invited Lecture, University of Tennessee, April l993
“‘Moving through Deserter Country’: Fugitive Accounts of the Inner Civil War in Southern Appalachia,” Southern Historical Association, Orlando, Fla., November l993
“Mountain Masters as Confederate Entrepreneurs: The Profitability of Slavery in Western North Carolina, l861-l865,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Blacksburg, Va., March l994
“The Racial ‘Innocence’ of Southern Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities, American Historical Asssociation, Chicago, January l995
“Southern Autobiography as Southern History: Personalizing the Past in the College Classroom,” NEH Symposium on “Reading Our Lives: Southern Autobiography,” Keynote Address, Auburn University, January l995
“Slavery and Emancipation in Buncombe County, North Carolina,” Symposium on “Multi- Cultural Asheville,” Asheville, N.C., March l995
“‘Lincolnite Proclivities, Real and Perceived: The Variables of Mountain Unionism during the Civil War,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Cincinnati, March l997
“Black, White, and Teenage: Southern Autobiography as High School History,” Organization of American Historians, Teaching Day Session, San Francisco, April l997
“Mountain Women, Mountain War: Gender Roles and Guerrilla Warfare in Appalachia’s Civil War,” Invited Lecture, Appalachian State University, October l997
“Highland Households Divided: Familial Tensions during Southern Appalachia’s War Within a War” Symposium on “Families at War: Conflicts and Loyalties in the Civil War South,” University of Richmond, April l998
“Divided Loyalties and Family Tensions: Kinship and the Civil War in Western North
Carolina,” Invited Lecture, Western Carolina University, October l998
“Georgia History as Multicultural and Multidisciplinary,” (w/ Tim Powell) at Georgia
Association of Historians, Savannah, Ga., April l999
“Coming of Age and Coming to Terms with Poverty: Adolescent Perspectives on the
Poor in Southern Autobiography”, at symposium on “Writing Southern Poverty
Between the Wars,” University of Keele, England, September 2000
“‘I Learn What I Am’: Autobiographical Accounts of Early Encounters with Jim Crow”
American Historical Association Meeting, Boston, January 2001
“Black, White, and Teenage: Southern Autobiography as High School History,” Tennessee
Social Studies Teachers Symposium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 2001
“State Historical Societies and Academia: Partnerships, Natural and Unnatural?” Keynote
Address to Alabama Historical Association, Huntsville, Ala., April 2001
“Enemies of the Country: Unionists in the Confederate South,” Kentucky Civil War Roundtable, Lexington, Ky., March 2002
“Writing the South through the Self: Insights into Race and Region in Southern Autobiography,” Whitworth-Muldrow Annual Lecture, Shorter College, Rome, Ga.
March 2003
“Southern Response to Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman on Stage and Screen,” Conference
on the Legacy of Thomas Dixon, Wake Forest University, April 2003
“From Cold Mountain to Cold Truths: Mountain Men and Women at War in Fact and Fiction,” Robert A. Zahner Conservation Lecture Series, Highlands, N.C., June 2004
“Using Film to Teach Appalachian History” Appalachian Studies Conference, Radford University, Radford Va., March 2005
“Black, White, and Southern: Autobiography and the Complexities of Race,” Governor’s Annual Humanities Lecture, Atlanta, May 2005
“Coming Out of the Shadows: Discovering the Unionists in Civil War Georgia and the South,” First Annual Symposium on New Perspectives on the Civil War, Kennesaw State University, June 2005
“Bondage and Freedom in Southern Appalachia: Variations on a Theme,” Symposium on Race in Appalachia and America, Berea College, Berea, Ky., October 2005; and at Holt Conference on Appalachia, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 2007
“Black, White, and Adolescent: Autobiography as Character Education,” Keynote Address,
Georgia Council for the Social Sciences, State Conference, Athens, Ga., October 2005
“Teaching Southern Race Relations through Film,” Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Morrow, Ga., April 2006
“In Praise of Librarians: Their Contributions to the Creation and Utilization of the New Georgia Encyclopedia,” Keynote Address, Georgia Association of Librarians, Athens, Ga., October 2006
Visiting Scholar, American Studies Program, at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern
Ireland, March 2008 -- public lecture and two teaching sessions with graduate students
“Black, White, and Southern: Autobiography and the Complexities of Race,” James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va. (and session with graduate students), September 2008
“The Emotional Impact of Jim Crow: The Scars and Scares of Southern Racism,” Hutchins Lecture, Center for the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill, April 2009
“Guerrilla War and Remembrance: Women as Chroniclers of Appalachia’s Inner Civil War,” SAWH Conference, University of South Carolina, June 2009
“The Push and Pull of Appalachia: Contradictions and Complexities in Appalachian
Autobiography,” Lees-McRae College, June 2009
“Self-Conscious Southerners,” Symposium in Honor of Charles Joyner, Coastal Carolina
College, Myrtle Beach, S.C., February 2011
“’The War Taught So Many People Nothing’: Thomas Wolfe and Civil War Memory in Western North Carolina,” for N.C. Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposium on Civil War Memory, Raleigh, NC, June 2011
“Lessons from Southern Lives: Teaching Race through Memoir and Autobiography,” Keynote Address, Ga. Council on Teachers of English, Calloway Gardens, Ga. Feb. 2011
“Frederick Law Olmsted’s The Cotton Kingdom in British Context,” lecture as visiting scholar at University of Liverpool, March 2013
“How the Civil War Impacted Georgia and How Georgia Impacted the Civil War,” multiple
presentations, 2012 through 2015 (CW Sesquicentennial Series)
OTHER PROGRAM PARTICIPATION:
Commentator, “Appalachia on My Mind” sessions, Social Science History Association
meeting, Washington, D.C., November l989
Panelist, “Publishing Appalachia: A Journal Editors’ Roundtable,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Unicoi State Park, Ga., l990
Chair, Session on “Confederate Appalachia,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Berea College, Ky., March l991
Chair, Session on “Religions, Ethnicity, and Partisanship: The Origins of Dissent in the Confederacy,” Organization of American Historians, Louisville, Ky., April l991
Chair and Commentator, “Nineteenth Century Appalachian Women,” Second Conference of Southern Association of Women Historians, UNC, Chapel Hill, June l991
Panelist, Graduate Student Workshop on “Publishing the Dissertation or Thesis,” Mid- America Conference, Springfield, Mo., September l991
Chair, Session on “Antebellum Appalachia: How Southern in Character?” Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November l991
Panelist, “Seventy-five Years of the Georgia Historical Quarterly,” Georgia Historical Society Annual Meeting, Savannah, April 1992
Commentator, Session on “Masculinity and Sex Roles in the Early Republic,” Society for Historians of the Early Republic, Chapel Hill, N.C., July l993
Panelist, Roundtable on “Teaching Appalachian History in the College Classroom,” Appalachian Studies Conference, West Virginia University, March l995
Chair, Session on “The Civil War and its Legacy in North Georgia Communities,” [3 papers by UGA grad. students], Appalachian Studies Conference, Unicoi State Park, Ga., March l996
Chair, Roundtable on “Hollywood and Hillbillies: Appalachian Stereotypes on Film,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Cincinnati, March l997
Eight presentations on The New Georgia Guide (individually and with other authors), Athens, Atlanta, Blairsville, Clarkesville, Cordele, Kennesaw, Savannah, Unicoi State Park, l996-l997
Panelist, Workshop for Graduate Students on “Getting Published,” Fourth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Charleston, S.C., June l997
Commentator, Session on “Course Portfolios: Documenting the Scholarship of Teaching in History,” an AHA Teaching Division Session, American Historical Association meeting, Seattle, January l998
Commentator, Session on “Two Historians’ Vision of an Ideal South: E. Merton
Coulter and Charles Wiltse,” SHA meeting, Birmingham, Ala., November l998
Presiding, “Redrawing the Battle Lines: New Strategies and Questions in Civil War
History,” Society of Civil War Historians Dinner, SHA meeting, Birmingham, Ala., November l998
Panelist, Roundtable on “The Power of Place: Appalachian Historians Confront Cold
Mountain,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Abingdon, Va., March l999
Commentator, Session on “Guerrilla Warfare” at conference on “The Civil War at the
Peripheries,” University of Virginia, April 1999
Panelist, “Frank A. Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South After Fifty Years,” SHA, Fort
Worth, Texas, November 1999
Panelist, “This is the Future: Multiculturalism and Technology at the University of Georgia”
Southern Studies Conference, Emory University, February 2001
Chair, Session on “Political and Economic Factionalism in Antebellum Appalachia,” at
Appalachian Studies Conference, Snowshoe, W. Va., March 2001
Panelist, “The State of Scholarly Publishing in Appalachian Studies,” at Appalachian Studies
Conference, Snowshoe, W.Va., March 2001
Chair and Commentator, Session on “Politics and Labor in Augusta, l880-1920,” Georgia Association of Historians, Augusta State University, April 2001
Chair, Session on “Disloyalty and Alleged Cowardice in Civil War Virginia,” at Douglass Southall Freeman Conference on Virginia’s Civil War and Aftermath, University of
Richmond, February 2002
Chair, Session on “Slavery and Freedom in l9th Century Appalachia,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Unicoi State Park, Ga., March 2002
Organizer, Session on “Moonshiners, Mormons, and Mountain Violence in 19th Century
Appalachia,” [3 papers by UGA grad. students], Appalachian Studies Conference, Unicoi
State Park, Ga., March 2002
Panelist, “The State of State Historical Journals,” Conference of Historical Journals special
Session, American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 2003
Commentator, Session on “Appalachian Women as Regional Activists,” Sixth Annual Conference on Southern Women, University of Georgia, July 2003
Chair, New Perspectives on Racial Identity in 20th Century Appalachia,” Appalachian Studies Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, March 2003
Chair, Session on “Southern Writing as Storytelling,” Roots in Georgia II Conference, UGA,
March 2003
Organizer, Panel Discussion of Hannah Crafts’ The Bondswoman’s Narrative, Sixth Conference on Southern Women’s History, UGA, Athens, Ga., June 2003
Chair, Session on “Appalachian Women as Teachers and Missionaries,” Sixth Conference on
Southern Women’s History, UGA, Athens, Ga., June 2003
Session Organizer and Panelist, “Innovations in Bringing State and Local History On-line: Three Georgia Models” [NGE, Digital Library of Georgia, Virtual Savannah Project]
OAH Regional Conference, Atlanta, July 2004
Moderator, Session on “From Dissertation to Book: Advice from Publishers,” Panel Discussion at Graduate Student Luncheon, SHA, Atlanta, Ga., November 2005
Panelist, Roundtable on Southern Cinema, UGA, January 2007
Moderator, Session on “Teaching History through Film,” Georgia Association of
Historians Annual Meeting, Milledgeville, GA, April 2007
Panelist, “Beyond Inside War: New Perspectives on Guerrilla Warfare,” 1st Biennial meeting
of Society of Civil War Historians, Philadelphia, June 2008
Chair, Tribute Session Honoring John Boles on his 25th year as editor of the Journal of
Southern History, SHA, New Orleans, October 2008
Moderator and organizer, “How I Got Published: Four First-Time Authors Tell Their Stories,” Panel Discussion, Graduate Student Luncheon, SHA, New Orleans, October 2008
Organizer, Session on “Memory, Identity, and Conversion Among Women in Southern
Appalachia,” SAWH Conference, University of South Carolina, June 2009
Moderator and organizer, “Taking on Tenure-Track: Testimonials from the Trenches,” Panel Discussion, Graduate Student Luncheon, SHA, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 2009
Chair, Session on “Teaching Erskine Clarke’s Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic, Georgia
Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Decatur, Ga., February 2010
Commentator, “Upheaval and Change in the Piedmont and Upcountry South,” Conference on Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South,” College of Charleston,
March 2010
Chair and Commentator, Session on “Gender and Whiteness in Appalachian Reform, 1870-
1930,” Appalachian Studies Conference, North Georgia College, Dahlonega, March 2010
Commentator, Session on “Echoes of War: How the Civil War Affected Memory, Politics, and Economic Development in Appalachia,” Society of Civil War Historians Biennial
Conference, Richmond, Va., June 2010
Organizer, “The Dos and Don’ts of Getting Published: A Panel Discussion with Journal Editors,” Graduate Student Luncheon, SHA, Charlotte, N.C., November 2010
Appointment to Organization of American History’s Distinguished Lectureship Program,
2010-2013 (appointed to second term, beginning 2013)
Richard J. Milbauer Visiting Scholar, University of Florida, February 2-5, 2011
Commentator, “The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the
Civil War” Conference, UGA and Cobb House, October 2011
Panelist, Tribute Session for John Boles, on his retirement as editor of The Journal of Southern History, SHA meeting St. Louis, Nov. 2013
Panelist, “Screening Slavery,” Society of Civil War Historians Conference, Baltimore, June
2014, filmed by C-Span
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING:
Program Chair, Appalachian Studies Conference, Unicoi State Park, Ga., l990
Co-Organizer (with Will Holmes and others), Symposium on “Black and White
Perspectives on the American South,” University of Georgia, September l994
Co-Organizer (with Bill McFeely and others), Conference on “Civil Rights in Small Places,” University of Georgia, April l996
Co-Organizer (with Doris Kadish and others) Conference on “Slavery in the Francophone World,” University of Georgia, October l997
Co-Organizer (with Robert Cohen) Workshop for Area 8th Grade Georgia History Teachers with UGA History Faculty, (Dean’s Forum Project), University of Georgia, June l998
Conference Coordinator, Appalachian Studies Conference, Unicoi State Park, Ga., March 2002
Co-Organizer (with Glenn Eskew), Symposium on “Native Americans and Mixed Race
Identities,” Georgia Consortium of Historians, UGA, February 2003
Co-Organizer (with Bryant Simon, Jim Cobb, etc.), Symposium on “Racial Violence in the
American South,” Southern Historical Association Lectureship, UGA, March 2003
Program Committee, Organization of American Historians Regional Meeting, Atlanta, Ga.,
2003-2004
Co-Organizer (with Paul Pressly and others) “African American Life in the Georgia Low Country and the Atlantic World,” Symposium, Savannah, Ga., February 2008
Co-Organizer/Host of Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, UGA, March 2014
Co-Organizer/Host of Society of Appalachian Historians Annual Meeting, UGA, May 2015
Teaching Activities, UGA:
“Peer Review of Teaching Project” American Association of Higher Education –
one of six UGA faculty participants/representatives, 1996-1999
G-STEP Committee on National Standards, Social Studies, 1997-1999
Dean’s Forum, 1997-2002
Two summer workshops for 8th Grade Georgia History Teachers, 1998, 1999
Interdisciplinary “Ways of Knowing Project,” 2001-2002
Multicultural Faculty Task Force, 1998-2004
Peer Consultant (Faculty Mentoring) Team, 2000-2005
UGA Senior Teaching Fellow, Office of Instructional Development, 2002-2003
UGA Teaching Academy, 2002-
Teaching Activities, elsewhere:
Consultant and Participant, NEH Summer Workshop on Appalachian History (high school teachers) Western Carolina University, July 1998
Chair, Teaching Committee, Georgia Association of Historians, 1999-2001
Consultant and Participant, NEH American Landmark Workshops (for community college teachers) on “Working the Woods”, Mars Hill College, N.C., June and July 2005 (two sessions) and June 2006
Participant, NEH Workshop on Civil War and Reconstruction, high school and middle school teachers), Asheville, N.C., June 2005
Consultant and Participant, NEH Teacher’s Workshop on Georgia’s Civil War, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Ga., June 2006
Consultant and Participant, NEH “Teaching American History” Summer Institute,
Clayton State College and Ga. State Archives, July 2006, June 2007, October 2008
Participant, Teaching Institute on the Civil War, Kennesaw State University, June 2008
Lead Scholar, “Appalachian Voices,” Teachers Seminar, N.C. Humanities Council, Glendale Springs, N.C., June 2010
Participant, “Teaching Historical Thinking,” Summer Teaching Institute, Western Carolina University, June 2010
Participant, NEH Teacher Institute, “The Power of Place: Land and Culture in Appalachia” UNC-Asheville, N.C., July 2011
Teaching Awards:
Parks-Heggoy Award 1999, 2004
(graduate teaching, departmental)
UGA Career Center Award 2002, 2013, 2015
(for contributions to career development of UGA undergraduates)
Teaching Excellence Award 2003, 2005
(UGA Student Government Association)
Lothar Tresp Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Honors Program, 2010
UGA Service (non-teaching and non-departmental)
UGA Press Editorial Board, 2001-2004, 2006-09, 2011-14
Chair, 2002-2004
Committees for Promotion/Tenure
Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2003-2006
University-Wide, 2010, 2014
Fine and Applied Arts, 2010-2012, Chair, 2011; 2014-2016
Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
Advisory Board, 2003-2006
Senior Faculty Research Grants Committee, 2007, 2010
Research Fellowship Committee, 2008, 2009
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Advisory Board, 2002-2015
Chair, Five-Year Review of William Gray Potter (University Librarian), 2006
Search Committee for Georgia Review Editor, 2007
Faculty Awards Committee, Arts & Sciences, 2008
Georgia Review, Editorial Board, 2008-2012
Institute of Native American Studies, Steering Committee, 2008-2015
Program Review Team, Department of Religion, 2010-2011
Special Professorship Selection Committee, 2010, 2011
Search Committee for Dean, Arts and Sciences, 2011-2012
Search Committee for UGA President, 2012-2013
Academic Advisory Board for Student Affairs, 2013-2014
Professional Memberships and Activity:
Appalachian Studies Association
Steering Committee, l987-l991
Program Chair, l989-l990
Secretary/Editor, Appalink (Newsletter), l991-1993
Vice President, l994-l995
President, l995-l996
Editorial Board, Journal of Appalachian Studies, 1999-2015
Conference Coordinator, 2002 Conference
Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award, 2005-2010
Chair, Search Committee, JAS Editor, 2009-2010
Encyclopedia of Appalachia, l995-2006
Board of Editors, l995-2006
State Coordinator, Georgia, l996-97
Georgia Historical Society
Board of Curators, l989-2000
Publication Committee, l992-95
Program and Publications Committee, l995-98
Awards Committee, l994-99, 2008-2012
Editorial Board, Georgia Historical Quarterly, 2008-2012
Georgia Association of Historians
Program Committee, l991, 1998
Executive Council, l992-94
Membership Committee, l994-l995
Teaching Committee, Chair, 1998
Executive Council, 2001-2010
Awards Committee, Chair, 2004-2010
Local Arrangements Chair/Host of Annual Meeting, 2014
Organization of American Historians
Membership Committee, 1998
Program Committee, 2002, 2006
Local Arrangements Committee, 2006
Avery O. Craven Book Award Committee, 2009
Distinguished Lecturer, 2010-2016
Southern Historical Association
Visiting Editor, Journal of Southern History, 1988-1989
Membership Committee, l993, l997
Program Committee, l994
Nominating Committee, l997
Secretary-Treasurer, 2000-2014
Southern Association of Women Historians
Program Committee, l993-94
Willie Lee Rose Book Prize Committee, 1998
Local Arrangements Committee, 2003
Social Science Education Consortium
Member, 2000-2006
Georgia State History Museum Commission
Member, 2010-2012
Award/Prize Committees:
Willie Lee Rose Book Prize, Southern Association of Women’s Historians (best book on southern history by a woman), Committee Chair, l998
Appalachian Book Award, University Press of Kentucky, l994, l995, 1997, l998
Malcolm and Muriel Bell Award (best book on Ga. History), Georgia Historical Society, l993, l995, l997, 2000
E. Merton Coulter and William Bacon Stevens Awards (articles on Georgia history), l991- 1997; chair l994-1995
Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, North Carolina Literary and Historical Society, l991, 1997
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, UGA Libraries, Judge, 2003-2015
Williams/Brown Service Award, Appalachian Studies Association, 2005- 2010
Awards Committee (2 book awards; 2 article awards), Georgia Historical Society, 2007-2012
Avery O. Craven Book Award, Organization of American Historians, 2009
Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society of Civil War Historians, Committee Chair, 2015
Film/Stage Consultancies:
Consultant and On-Screen Interview, “In the Shadow of Cold Mountain,” Arts &
Entertainment Network, aired December 2003
Consultant and On-Screen Interview, “Cold Mountain: From Book to Film,” Discovery
Channel, December 2003
Script Consultant and On-Screen Interview, “Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People,” James Agee Film Project, 2005-2008 (aired on PBS – April 2009)
Historical Consultant, “Beneath Shelton Laurel,” original stage play commissioned and produced by the Southern Appalachian Regional Theatre (SART), Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, N.C., 2005
Script Consultant and On-Screen Commentator, “Georgia Stories,” Georgia Public
Broadcast (GPB) – Educational Division, 2008, 2010, 2011
Historical Consultant, original stage play on early life of Zebulon B. Vance, commissioned and produced by the Southern Appalachian Regional Theatre (SART), Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, N.C., 2011
Script Consultant / Advisor for “Today in Georgia” daily radio and TV series for GPB and GBTV, sponsored by Georgia Historical Society, 2010-12
Dissertations Supervised: (* published or under contract as books)
Manget, Luke, “Root Diggers and Herb Gatherers: An Environmental History of the Botanical Drug Industry in Nineteenth Century Appalachia” (In Progress)
Poister, Robert, “The Grey Market: Smuggling, Economic Chaos, and Confederate Defeat” (In Progress)
Young, Kevin, “Lynching Broadus Miller: Racial Violence in Morganton and its Impact on
North Carolina’s Anti-Lynching Campaign in 1927” (In Progress)
Rohrer, Katherine, “The Religious Expression of White Southern Women from the Age of Slavery through the Age of Imperialism, 1830-1930" (2015) McGuire, Samuel, “Veterans of Enterprise and Intelligence: The Grand of the Republic in the New South” (2015) Hulbert, Matthew, "Guerrilla Memory: Irregular Recollections from the Civil War Borderlands” (2015)* Osborn, Kyle, "Masters of Fate: Efficacy and Emotion in the Civil War South” (2013)
Lawton, Christopher, "Re-Envisioning the South: William and T. Addison Richards, Georgia Illustrated, and the Cultural Politics of Antebellum Sectionalism" (2011)*
Engel, Mary Ella, "Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Georgia" (2009)*
Myers, Barton, "'Rebels against a Rebellion': Southern Unionists in Secession, War, and Remembrance" (2009)*
Nash, Steve, “’The Extremest Conditions of Humanity’: Emancipation, Conflict, and Progress in Western North Carolina, 1865-1880" (2009)*
Justice, George, "Conventional Wisdom: Georgia State Constitutional Conventions and The Transformation of Nationalism from Republic to Modern American State, 1777-1877" (2008)
Browning, Judkin, "When Worlds Collide: The Myriad Effects of Occupation in the American Civil War" (2006)*
Stewart, Bruce E., "Moonshiners on our Mind: Illicit Distilling, Prohibition, and Identity in Western North Carolina, 1791-1908" (2006)*
Brown, Ras Michael, "Crossing Kalunga: West-Central Africans and their Cultural Influence in the South Carolina-Georgia Low Country" (2004)*
Mitchell, Glenda Bridges, "Spirit-filled Women: Louisiana's United Pentecostal Church International and Modern American Culture" (2003)
Brashear, C. Craig, "Election Ground: Place, Markets, and Class in East Tennessee's Second American Party System" (2000)
| MA Theses Supervised
Marsh, Christopher, “Andrew Gennett, the Weeks Act of 1911, and the Development of National Forests in Southern Appalachia” (2013)
Poister, Robert, “The Business of Exile: The Economic Biography of an Expatriate Confederate Family” (2012)
Merritt, Keri Leigh, "’A Vile, Immoral, and Profligate Course of Life': Poor Whites and the Enforcement of Vagrancy Law in Antebellum Georgia" (2007)
Myers, Barton, "Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Warfare in a Coastal Carolina Community” (2005)*
Buseman, Michael J. "One Trade, Two Worlds: Politics, Conflict, and the Illicit Liquor Trade in White County, Georgia and Pickens County, South Carolina, 1894-1895" (2002)
McCallister, Andrew B., ""A Source of Pleasure, Profit, and Pride": Tourism, Industrialization, and Conservation at Tallulah Falls, Georgia, 1820-1915" (2002)
Stallings, Frances Patricia, "Presenting Mr. Ira's Masterpiece: Two Centuries of Agricultural Change at the Shields-Ethridge Farm" (2002)
Connolly, David H., "The Conservative Republicanism of Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin: The Political, Economic and Moral Regeneration of the Antebellum South" (2000)
Warren, Wallace H., "Progress and its Discontents: The Transformation of the Georgia Foothills, 1920-1970" (1997)
Cline, Lori Anne, ""Something Wrong In South Carolina: Antebellum Agricultural Tenancy and Primitive Accumulation in Three Districts"" (1996)
Sarris, Jonathan D. "The Madden Branch Massacre: Loyalty and Disloyalty in North Georgia's Guerrilla War 1861-1865" (1994)
Have served on 60 other MA and PhD Committees at UGA as of December 2014
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39 in History Dept.
9 in College of Education (Social Science Ed; Social Foundations)
3 in Anthropology
2 in Historic Preservation
2 in Religion.
2 in English
1 in Speech Communication
1 in Journalism
2 in Art History
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