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Curriculum Vitae

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Education:

Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of California, San Diego, 1997. Major field: U.S. South; minor fields: nineteenth-century U.S., modern Africa
Master of Arts in History, University of California, San Diego, 1990
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of California, San Diego, 1987 (summa cum laude)

Professional Appointments:

Associate Professor, History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University,
2005 to the present
Assistant Professor, History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University,
2001 to 2005
Associate Editor, Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland, College Park, 1996 to 2001
Assistant Editor, Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland, College Park,
1993 to 1996
Lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park, 1997 to 2000
Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, 1988 to 1990

Books:

Becoming Free in the Cotton South (New York: Harvard University Press, forthcoming spring 2007)
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 3, vol. 1, Land and Labor, 1865 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming fall 2007), with Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 3, vol. 2, Land and Labor, 1866-1867 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, under contract), with Anthony E. Kaye,
Steven F. Miller, Leslie S. Rowland, and Stephen A. West

Articles and Review Essays:

"War, Slavery, and Lessons from our Past: David Williams's Rich Man's War: Class, Caste,
and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley," Journal of Southwest Georgia History 14
(Fall 1999): 46-57
"The Journal of Nelson Tift," Journal of Southwest Georgia History 12 (Fall 1997): 65-77; 11 (Fall 1996): 82-102; 10 (Fall 1995): 67-84; 8 (Fall 1993): 47-69; 7 (1989-1992): 81-106; 6 (Fall 1988): 21-40; 5
(Fall 1987): 64-75
"Between Emancipation and Enfranchisement: Law and the Political Mobilization of Black Southerners, 1865-1867," Chicago-Kent Law Review 70: 3 (1995): 1059-77, with Steven F. Miller, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland
"Philip Joiner: Southwest Georgia Black Republican Leader," Journal of Southwest Georgia History 4
(Fall 1986): 56-71

Other Publications:

"Emancipation," The New Georgia Encyclopedia, ed. John C. Inscoe (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2003)
"Nelson Tift," The New Georgia Encyclopedia, ed. John C. Inscoe (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2002)
"Rights and Responsibilities in History: African Americans and Visions of Freedom," Rights and Responsibilities in History: National History Day 2003, ed. Beatriz Hardy (College Park, Md.: National History Day, 2002), pp. 49-54
"What's New in Teaching the Past: The National History Day Summer Institute," Organization of American Historians Newsletter 27 (November 1999), with Cathy Gorn

Work in Progress:

"Trunk Lines, Land Lines, and Local Exchanges: Operationalizing the ‘Grapevine Telegraph,'" a working paper exploring the mechanisms and infrastructure of the discursive networks developled by slaves in the antebellum South
Slaves and the Politics of Disunion, a book length study about slaves' roles in the antebellum secession debate
After Slavery: Race, Labour, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas, a collaborative-research initiative that brings together scholars from Ireland, Britain, and the United States in a long-term, multi-media project designed to advance our understanding of black people's lives as they unfolded in the years following Civil War and Reconstruction

Conference Presentations and Scholarly Round-Tables:

Presenter, "Trunk Lines, Land Lines, and Local Exchanges: Operationalizing the ‘Grapevine Telegraph' in the Antebellum United States," University of Nottingham, Institute for the Study of Slavery conference, "Slavery, Citizenship, and the State," Nottingham, U. K., September 2006
Presenter, "Making Slavery's Cotton: Refashioning Self on the Southern Frontier of the United States," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2006
Presenter, "Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor: The Legacies of Slavery in a
Cotton Community," International Conference on Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 2004
Commentator, "Gender and Political Mobilization from Reconstruction to the Black Freedom Struggle," Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2004
Presenter, "State of the Field: African American History," Organization of American Historians Southern Regional Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2004
Presenter, "Making Cotton, Making Gender in Georgia's Antebellum Southwest," Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, April 2004
Moderator, "The Political Economy of the South: A Round-table Discussion," Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, March 2004
Moderator (and session organizer), "Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative: A Roundtable Discussion," Southern Association for Women Historians' Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, Athens, Georgia, June 2003
Commentator, "Race, Slavery, and Emancipation in the Ohio Valley," Filson Institute for the Advanced Study of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley, and the Upper South Spring 2003 Academic Conference, "Constructing and Reconstructing a Region: 21st-Century Approaches to the Ohio Valley's History," Louisville, Kentucky, May 2003
Presenter, "Making Cotton, Making State: Black Men, Black Women, and ‘the Law'," Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2002
Panelist, "Ken Burns: Race and the Civil War," W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Special Event, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 2002
Presenter, "Making Cotton, Making Gender: Black Men, Black Women, and the Legacies of Slavery in the USA," University of Nottingham, Institute for the Study of Slavery conference, "5000 Years of Slavery,"Nottingham, U.K., September 2002
Presenter (and session organizer), "Black Men, Women, and Work: Slavery and Free Labor in Southwest Georgia," at the 22nd Annual North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 2000
Presenter (and session organizer), "The Shadows of Slavery: Working Out Freedom in Southwest Georgia," at the Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, April 1999
Presenter, "Organizing Free Labor: Work and Politics in Southwest Georgia, 1865-1868," Department of History Graduate Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, March 1995
Presenter, "Free Labor and African American Households: Reconstruction in Southwest Georgia, 1865-1868," at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1994
Presenter, "Cotton, Labor, and the Household: Changing Relations of Production in Post-Emancipation Southwest Georgia," at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association and the Georgia Association of Historians, Savannah, Georgia, February 1992
Presenter, "Creation of Community on the Southern Frontier: The Land Settlement Process in Dougherty County, Georgia, 1820-1860," at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 1989
Presenter, "Philip Joiner: Southwest Georgia Black Republican Leader," at the Southern Conference of Afro-American Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1986

Fellowships, Awards, and Commendations:

Research Fellow, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition, Yale University, September to December 2006
Outstanding Undergraduate Advising. Letter of Commendation from FAS Social Sciences Dean, January 2006
Harvard Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Overall Professor Rating of 5.0 for "Topics in African American History." Letter of Commendation from FAS Social Sciences Dean, August 2005
Harvard Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Overall Professor Rating of 5.0 for "African American History from the Slave Trade to 1900." Letter of Commendation from FAS Social Sciences Dean, April 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, September 2003 to May 2004
Clark/Cooke Fund Travel and Research Award, Harvard University, 2002
Dissertation Fellowships, Department of History, University of California, San Diego, 1990 and 1992
University of California Regents Fellowship, 1987

Lecture Courses Taught:

"African American History from the Slave Trade to 1900," web link: <http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~afam118>
"The American Civil War: Waging a War in History and in Memory," web link:

< http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hist1625/?redirect=no>

"Civil War and the Rise of Industrialism, 1860-1900"
"The History of the Old South"

Seminars and Tutorials Taught:

"African Americans in the Civil War Era"
"Black Women in Slavery and Freedom"
"Harvard University, Department of History, Sophomore Tutorial"
"Major Themes in American Historical Writing"
"New Approaches to Teaching the Civil War Era"
"Race and Class in the Post-Civil War South"
"Readings in Nineteenth-Century American Political Economy"
"Readings in Nineteenth-Century Black Political Economy"
"Readings in the History of Slavery"
"The Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1975"
"Topics in Afro-American History"

Invited Lectures, Workshops, and Public Presentations:

Director and Presenter, "Teaching Slavery, Teaching Freedom," Teachers' Workshop, National History Day, National Finals, University of Maryland, College Park, June 2006
Moderator, Cambridge Forum, Public Discussion of Cassandra Pybus, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and their Global Quest for Liberty, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2006
Commentator, "The Promise of Freedom," African American Lives, PBS, February 2006
"Making Slavery's Cotton: Refashioning Self on the Southern Frontier," Department of African American Studies, Boston University, January 2006
Co-Director and Presenter, "Civil Rights: A Century of Questions," A Teaching American History Workshop, National History Day, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2005
Director and Presenter, "The Many Meanings of Freedom: Thinking and Teaching about Rights, Privileges, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era," Teachers' Workshop, National History Day, National Finals, University of Maryland, College Park, June 2005
"Making Slavery's Cotton: Refashioning Self on the Southern Frontier," W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies, Harvard University, February 2005
"Making Slavery's Cotton: Refashioning Self on the Southern Frontier," Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, October 2004
Presenter, "Mobilizing a Nation: Black Abolitionists and the Antebellum Press," National History Day Summer Teachers' Institute, Politics and the Press: The Impact of the Media on America, University of Maryland, College Park, July 2004
"Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor in the Cotton South," Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, February 2004
"Introduction to the Historiography of Slavery," "Introduction to the Historiography of Reconstruction," Afro-American Studies 301, Harvard University, Fall 2001, Fall 2002
"African-American Women in Freedom," Gilder Lehrman Summer Institute, Women in the Civil War Era, 1848-1876, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2002
Director and Presenter, "Teaching with Documents: Using Primary Sources to Understand Reconstruction," Teachers' Workshop, National History Day, National Finals, University of Maryland, College Park, June 2001
Presenter, "Black Soldiers in the Civil War," Hoover Middle School, Rockville, Maryland, May 2001
Presenter, "Making Sense of Antebellum America," Carroll County History Institute, Westminster, Maryland, June 1998
Director and Presenter, "After Emancipation: The Problem of Defining Freedom," American History Class, Quantico High School, Quantico, Virginia, March 1996 and March 1997

Theses and Dissertations:

Committee member, Diana Williams, Harvard University, Program in American Civilization, Ph.D. Dissertation (in progress)
Committee member, David Brighouse, Harvard University, Department of African and African American Studies, Ph.D. Dissertation (in progress)
Director, Jay Butler (2006 Rhodes Scholar), Harvard University, Undergraduate Honors Thesis in History, 2006
.Director, Adrienne Whaley, Harvard University, Undergraduate Honors Thesis in African and African American Studies, 2006
Director, Owen Hartnett, Harvard University Extension School, MA Thesis in History, 2005
Director, Andrew McGee, Harvard University, Undergraduate Honors Thesis in History and Literature, 2005

Professional Service:

Member of Editorial Board, Journal of South Georgia History, January 2004 to present
Moderator, "On the Market: Applying For That First Job," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 2002, Washington D.C.
Assistant Director, Gilder Lehrman Summer Institute, "North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective," University of Maryland, College Park, July 2001
Peer Reviewer, National Historic Publications and Records Commission, 2001
Director, National History Day Summer Institute, "Turning Points in History: The American Civil War and its Legacy: Teaching about Place and Time," University of Maryland, College Park, July 1999

University, Organizational, and Departmental Service:

Department of African and African American Studies Committee for the Jonathan M. Levin Prize for Teaching and Social Justice, Harvard University, May 2006
Board of Examiners, Department of History, Harvard University, 2006
Scholar-Activist Committee, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, 2006
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, 2006
Curriculum Committee, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, 2005
Board of Examiners, Department of History, Harvard University, 2005
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Committee on Undergraduate Research Grants, Harvard University, 2005
Search Committee, Department of History, Harvard University, Fall 2004
Steering Committee, Southern Historians in New England, November 2003 to present
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Committee on Undergraduate Research Grants, Harvard University, 2003
Committee on General Scholarships, Harvard University, April 2003
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee for the Kennedy, Knox, Sheldon, and Lurcy Travel Grant Competition, Harvard University, January 2003
Co-Chair, Joint Search, Committee on the Study of Religion and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2002
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Committee for Graduate Student Research Fellowships, Harvard University, May 2002
Department of Afro-American Studies Committee for the Jonathan M. Levin Prize for Teaching and Social Justice, Harvard University, May 2002
Organization of American Historians Membership Committee, 2002 to 2007
Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, 2002
Member of Governing Board, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2001 to present

Community Service:

Judge, National History Day state contest, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, March 2003
Consultant, Martin Luther King, Jr., African American, and Civil Rights History Monument project, Denver, Colorado, April 2002
Judge, National History Day, national finals, University of Maryland, College Park, 1998, 1999, 2000

Book Reviews:

Review of Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freedman, by Austin Steward, with an introduction by Graham Russell Hodges. In Labor: Working-Class History of the Americas 3 (Spring 2006)
Review of Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, by Nancy D. Bercaw. In Journal of American History 91 (September 2004)
Review of Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations, by Sharla M. Fett. In Journal of Social History 37 (Fall 2003)
Review of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, by Manisha Sinha. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32 (Winter 2002)
Review of Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, ed. Robert Louis Paquette and Louis A. Ferleger. In North Carolina Historical Review 78 (April 2001)
Review of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860, by Michele Gillespie. In South Carolina Magazine of History 102 (January 2001)
Review of The Gullah People and Their African Heritage, by William S. Pollitzer. In Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (Summer 2000)
Review of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction, by Laura F. Edwards. In Journal of Mississippi History 60 (Fall 1998)
Review of Freedom, Racism and Reconstruction: Collected Writings of LaWanda Cox, ed. Donald G. Nieman. In North Carolina Historical Review 75 (July 1998)
Review of Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives, by Jennifer Fleishner. In Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (Summer 1998)
Review of Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry during the Civil War, by Chester G. Hearn. In Journal of Mississippi History 60 (Spring 1998)
Review of "What Nature Suffers to Groe": Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920, by Mart A. Stewart. In Journal of American History 84 (September 1997)
Review of Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899, by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. In Journal of Southwest Georgia History 12 (Fall 1997)
Review of The Salmon P. Chase Papers, vol. 3: Correspondence, 1858-March 1863, ed. John Niven, James P. McClure, and Leigh Johnson. In North Carolina Historical Review 74 (January 1997)
Review of Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South, by Peter W. Bardaglio. In Journal of Southwest Georgia History 11 (Fall 1996)
Review of Agrarianism and Reconstruction Politics: The Southern Homestead Act, by Michael L. Lanza. In Journal of Southwest Georgia History 7 (1989-1992)
Review of Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880-1915, by Idus A. Newby. In Journal of Southwest Georgia History 7 (1989-1992)
Review of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World, ed. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly. In Journal of Southwest Georgia History 6 (Fall 1988)
Review of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 1, The Destruction of Slavery, ed. Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. In Journal of Southwest Georgia History 5 (Fall 1987)
Review of Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without a History, by Lucy M. Cohen. In Journal of Southwest Georgia History 4 (Fall 1986)

Organizational Memberships:

Agricultural History Society
American Historical Association
Labor and Working Class History Association
Organization of American Historians
Southern Association for Women Historians
Southern Historical Association