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Mark M. Smith
Carolina Distinguished Professor
Department of History
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
(803) 777-6362; [email protected]
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-prseent
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.
Current and Forthcoming Work
Co-Editor, Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (with Robert Paquette) (Oxford and New
York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Publications
Books:
Editor, Writing the American Past (Oxford and Malden: Wiley & Blackwell, 2009).
General Editor, Slavery in North America: From the Colonial Period to Emancipation, 4
Volumes, 1600 pages (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008).
Sensory History (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007).
Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting and Touching in History (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2008) (North American edition of Sensory History). Reviewed in
Science; The Times (London).
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2006; paperback, 2008). A 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Excerpted: "Sense and Segregation," The Chronicle Review (The Chronicle of Higher
Education), February 14, 2006
Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Slave Revolt, ed. (Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 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).
Excerpted: "The Volume of History: Listening to 19th-Century America," The Chronicle
Review (The Chronicle of Higher Education), December 14, 2001.
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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:
(with Susan L. Cutter), “Hurricane Evacuation: The Two Americas,” Environment: Science and
Policy for Sustainable Development 51 (March/April 2009), pp.26-36.
Guest Editor, “The Senses in American History,” Journal of American History, 95 (September
2008).
Guest Editor’s Introduction, “Still Coming to ‘Our’ Senses,” Journal of American History,
95 (September 2008), pp.378-380.
“Getting in Touch with Slavery and Freedom,” Journal of American History, 95 (September
2008), pp.381-391
"Producing Sense, Consuming Sense, Making Sense: Perils and Prospects for Sensory History,"
Journal of Social History 40 (summer 2007), pp. 841-858.
"Finding Deficiency: On Eugenics, Economics, and Certainty," American Journal of Economics
and Sociology 64 (July, 2005), pp.887-900.
"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.
Reprinted: Mark M. Smith, ed., Hearing History: A Reader (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 2004)
"Remembering Mary, Shaping Revolt: Reconsidering the Stono Rebellion," Journal of Southern
History LXVII (August 2001), pp.513-534.
Reprinted: Mark M. Smith, ed., Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave
Revolt (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005).
"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
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(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.
“Old South Time in Comparative Perspective,” in J. William Harris, ed., The Old South:
New Studies of Society and Culture (New York and London: Routledge, 2008), pp.84112.
"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 Edited Books:
"The Past as a Foreign Country: Reconstruction, Inside and Out," in Reconstructions: New
Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, ed. Thomas J. Brown (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2006), pp.117-140.
"One Nation, Under Time? Standardizing Time in the United States, 1752 and 1883," in Jieri
wenhua lunwen ji (A collection of essays on holiday culture), Zhongguo minsu xuehui
(Chinese Folk Custom Association) and Beijing Minsu bowuguan (Beijing Folk Custom
Museum), eds. (Beijing: Xueyuan chubanshe, 2006), pp.336-354. (Translated from English
into Chinese).
"Making Scents Make Sense: White Noses, Black Smells, and Desegregation," in American
Behavioral History: An Introduction, Peter Stearns, ed. (New York: New York
University Press, 2005), pp.179-198.
"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.
Newspaper and Magazine Articles/Op-Ed Pieces:
“Honorable Dispatches from South Carolina; or, What Some Graduate Students Think of
Southern Honor,” Historically Speaking, Vol.9, No.6 (July/August 2008), pp.17-18.
“A Sense of History,” The Chronicle Review (The Chronicle of Higher Education) February
22, 2008, Volume 54, Issue 24, Page B9
“The Touch of an Uncommon Man,” The Chronicle Review (The Chronicle of Higher
Education) February 22, 2008, Volume 54, Issue 24, Page B6 and COVER STORY.
"The Non-Sense of Race in Southern History," Carolinian (winter 2006), pp.14-15.
"When Slaves Ran South For Freedom," The State (Columbia, S.C.), Saturday, September 9,
2006.
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"Looking Blindly for Terrorists," The State (Columbia, S.C.), Wednesday, August 2, 2006.
"Sensing Race, Sensing History," Historically Speaking, Vol.7, No.5 (May/June, 2006), pp.2-5.
"Made to Wait, Again," The State (Columbia, S.C.), Saturday, April 29, 2006, p.3.
"Sense and Segregation," The Chronicle Review (The Chronicle of Higher Education),
February 14, 2006
"The Volume of History: Listening to 19th-Century America," The Chronicle Review (The
Chronicle of Higher Education), December 14, 2001. COVER STORY
Reprinted: Robert James Maddox, ed., Annual Editions: American History, Volume 1
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006)
"Strange Days," Lingua Franca, April, 1999, p.3.
"Fall back in time," Raleigh News and Observer, Sunday, October 26, 1997, E, pp.1, 5.
Introductions to Edited Books:
“Introduction,” General Editor, Slavery in North America: From the Colonial Period to
Emancipation, 4 Volumes, 1600 pages (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008).
"Finding Stono: Editor's Introduction," Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Slave Revolt
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005), pp.i-v.
"Introduction: Onward to Audible Pasts," Hearing History: A Reader, ed. (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 2004), pp.ix-xxii.
"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).
"Introduction," The Old South, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000), pp.1-16.
Encyclopaedia Entries
"Clocks and Time," Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
"Stono Rebellion," The South Carolina Encyclopedia.
"Stono Rebellion," Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, John P. Resch,
Richard Jensen, Sally McMillen, and G. Kurt Piehler, eds. (Farmington Hills, MI:
Thomson, 2005), pp.179-181.
"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:
Karin Bijsterveld, Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the
Twentieth Century, Contemporary Sociology (forthcoming).
Scott Gac, Singing for Freedom The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of
Antebellum Reform, American Historical Review (June 2008), pp.833-834.
David W. Blight, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own
Narratives of Emancipation, Civil War Book Review (Spring, 2008).
Robert Pierce Forbes, The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath, Political Science Quarterly
123, No.1, (Spring, 2008), pp.193-194.
C. M. Woolgar, The Senses in Medieval England; Emily Cockayne, Hubbub: Noise, Filth, and
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Stench in England, Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (summer/autumn, 2008), pp.186-188.
Enrico Dal Lago, Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861,
Civil War History 53 (March 2007), pp.62-63.
Robert Jütte, A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace, Senses and Society 2, no.1,
pp.105-108.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith
in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview, American Historical Review 111 (June 2006),
p.834.
Shane White and Graham White, The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American Thought
Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, Journal of Southern History 72 (August 2006),
pp.667-669.
Jonathan Daniel Wells, The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861, Social History 31, no.3
(2006), p.400.
Thomas C. Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat
World, Journal of American History, 92 (December, 2005), p.41
Charles Peter Hoffer, Sensory Worlds of Early America, American Historical Review 109 (October,
2004), p.1223.
Mark M. Carroll, Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 18231860, The Journal of The Historical Society 3 (March, 2003).
David S. Cecelski, The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, Journal
of American History 89(September, 2002), pp.628-629.
Sally E. Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, CommonPlace: The
Interactive Journal of Early American Life 2 (October, 2001) (on line at: www.commonplace.org).
Michele Gillespie, Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860,
Journal of American History 88 (April, 2001), p.1486.
Jeffrey Robert Young, Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 18701837, Journal of the Early Republic 21 (Spring, 2001), pp.50-52.
Lester D. Stephens, Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the
Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895, Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (Winter, 2000),
p.34.
Charles Joyner, Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture, Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography 108 (Jan., 2000), p.92.
Thomas Ingersoll, Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep
South, and Midori Tagaki, "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond,
Virginia 1782-1865, Journal of the Early Republic 20 (Spring, 2000), pp.165-168.
John David Smith, Slavery, Race, and American History: Historical Conflict, Trends, and Method,
1866-1953, Georgia Historical Quarterly LXXXIII (Winter, 1999), pp.776-777.
Robert Olwell, Masters, Subjects, and Slaves: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country
1740-1790, Slavery and Abolition 20 (December, 1999), pp.150-151.
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, South
Carolina Historical Magazine 100 (July, 1999), pp.280-282.
Paul Finkelman, ed., Slavery and the Law, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 106
(Summer, 1998), pp.323-324.
Richard Zuczek, State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina, Civil War History 43
(December, 1997), pp.356-357.
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Mary Moore Jacoby, ed., The Churches of Charleston and the Lowcountry, Southern Historian 16
(Spring, 1995), pp.117-118.
Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. and Kym S. Rice, eds., Before Freedom Came. African-American Life in
the Antebellum South, Southern Historian 15 (Spring, 1994), pp.95-96.
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, The Wings of Ethiopia: Studies in African American Life and Letters,
Southern Historian 14 (Spring, 1993), pp.103-104.
Honors, Awards, and Nominations
Academic Excellence:
President, The Historical Society, 2008-2010
William E. Hewit Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Colorado, April 14-18,
2008.
NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor, Colgate University, New York (invited for spring, 2009:
declined).
Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, 2004-present (the University's highest endowed
Chair)
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.
Elected Fellow (by nomination) to the St. George Tucker Society, Spring 1997.
M. E. Bradford Dissertation Award in Southern Studies for 1994-1995 awarded by the St. George
Tucker Society, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1995.
Teaching:
Two Thumbs Up Award, Office of Student Disability Services, University of South Carolina,
spring, 2009
Nominated for Michael Mungo Graduate Teaching Award, University of South Carolina, spring
2008.
Recognized as a "Patterson Hall Favorite Professor," spring 2005, Patterson Hall Academic
Success Committee.
Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of South Carolina Alpha Chapter of
Mortar Board, 2004
Two Thumbs Up Award, Office of Student Disability Services, University of South Carolina,
April 25, 2003
Nominated, Tower Faculty Recognition, for "faculty who give the extra effort to make a
difference in the life of a freshman," USC-Columbia, April 22, 2003.
Nominated Faculty of the Month in recognition of "outstanding faculty members who have
made a difference in the life of a first year student," Patterson Hall Residence
Association, University of South Carolina, Columbia, April 1, 2003.
Nominated for the Michael J. Mungo Teaching Award for undergraduate teaching, 1997, 1998.
Nominated Preferred Faculty Member of South Area Faculty Involvement Committee,
University of South Carolina, 1993, 1994.
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Research Grants:
Co-PI (with Walter Edgar), “The Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese,” 2009. Grant amount:
$55,000. Watson-Brown Foundation.
Co-PI/Director (with Walter Edgar) of a series of debates entitled “Take on the South,” 20082012, to be aired on South Carolina Educational Television. Grant amount: $640,000.
Grant awarded by The Watson-Brown Foundation.
Co-PI, "The Recovery Divide: Sociospatial Disparities in Disaster Recovery from Hurricane
Katrina along Mississippi's Gulf Coast," National Science Foundation, 2006-2009,
$719,000. PI: Dr. Susan Cutter, Geography; Co-PIs: Dr. Lynn Weber (Women's Studies),
Dr. Walter Piegorsch (Statistics), Dr. Jerry Mitchell (Geography).
"Aural Worlds: Plantation Soundscapes in the Antebellum South." Project funded by the
University of South Carolina, College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Grant, Summer, 1998
"Calendars and Cultures: The 1752 Calendar Shift in Colonial America." Project funded by the
University of South Carolina, Research and Productive Scholarship Grant, Summer, 1997
Research Fellow, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Winter, 1995-1996.
British Academy Personal Research Grant, Winter, 1995-1996.
Research Development Fund Grant, University of Birmingham, Summer, 1995.
Research Fellow, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Summer, 1995.
Overseas Conference Grant, University of Birmingham, November, 1994.
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate Council, University of South Carolina, Summer,
1994.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 1994.
Madelyn Moeller Research Fellowship, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, WinstonSalem, North Carolina, Summer, 1993.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 1993.
R. Means Davis Southern Studies Fellowship, Department of History, University of South
Carolina, 1990.
Editorial Positions
Series
General Editor (with David Moltke-Hansen), Cambridge Studies in the American South, spring
2009-present.
General Editor, Studies in Sensory History (University of Illinois Press), spring 2008-present.
General Editor (with Dmitri van den Bersselaar, University of Liverpool), Liverpool Studies in
International Slavery (in association with Centre for the Study of International Slavery
and published by the University of Liverpool Press), fall 2006-present
General Editor (with Peggy Hargis, University of South Carolina), Southern Classics Series
published by the University of South Carolina Press, spring 2003-present
Boards
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Early American Places, University of Georgia Press, 2009present.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of American History, spring 2007-present
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Southern Quarterly, fall 2006-present
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Social History, spring 2006-present
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Senses and Society, fall 2004-present
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Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Southern History, November, 2001-November, 2005
Member, Editorial Board, The South Carolina Encyclopaedia (summer 2000-2007)
Scholarly Associations/Professional Activities
Member, Executive Committee, The Historical Society, 2006-2008
Chair, James A. Rawley Book Prize, Southern Historical Association, 2005-2007.
Member, Board of Scholars, Hickory Hill Forum, January 2006-present.
Member, Organization of American Historians membership Committee, 2003-present
Member, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, 2003-2004
Member, Board of Governors, The Historical Society (Fall 2000-2008)
Chairman, Nominating Committee, The Historical Society (Summer 2000-2006)
Committee Member, Eugene D. Genovese Book Award, The Historical Society, fall, 2003-spring,
2004.
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
Book/Article Manuscripts and Major Grant Applications Refereed:
Book manuscripts:
University of California Press, 2008
Northern Illinois University Press, 2006
University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Oxford University Press, 2002, 2007, 2009.
Cornell University Press, 2002.
University of North Carolina Press, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008.
University Press of Mississippi 2007, 2008.
University Press of Florida, 1998.
Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2007 (twice), 2008 (twice).
Berg Publishers, 2008.
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Harvard University Press, 2008 (twice).
Articles:
Referee for articles submitted to Journal of Southern History; Journal of Social History; Pacific
Historical Review; Journal of American History; The Journal of The Historical Society;
Environmental History; Journal of Urban History; American Journal of Economics and
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Sociology; Patterns of Prejudice; Technology and Culture; The Senses and Society;
Preservation: The Magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Western
Journal of Black Studies.
Grants:
Earhart Foundation, Research Grant referee, October, 2008.
Rapporteur for End of Grant Award, “Slavery and Freedom: Racialised Relations in the
American South, c. 1790 to 1900” (₤106,000), Economic and Social Research Council, UK,
April, 2008.
Appraiser, “Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Sonic Simulations and Sonic Icons as Mediated
Cultural Heritage, “ Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch
research council), November, 2007.
Appraiser, "Maroon communities in colonial America," British Academy, spring 2006.
Appraiser, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar (Faulkner and Southern
History), University of South Carolina, spring 2005.
Appraiser, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, Fall,
2001.
Appraiser, National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grants, Fall, 2000.
Appraiser, "Charity in the Southern United States, 1800-1860," Arts and Humanities Research
Board, UK, February, 2000.
Papers Presented
“Making Sense of ‘Race’,” Shenandoah Valley University, Winchester, Virginia, April 22, 2009.
“Sound Teaching and the Contexts of Listening,” at a conference entitled, “Listening In/Feeding
Back,” Columbia University, New York, Feb.14, 2009.
“Making Sense of ‘Race’”, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb.11 2009 (invited)
“The Other Skin: Touch, Capitalism, and Slavery in Enlightenment America,” Yale University,
Department of African American Studies, September 22, 2008.
“The Five Senses in Enlightenment Culture,” Keynote Address, University of Birmingham, UK,
May 17, 2008.
“Sensory History: Its Past, Present, and Future,” William E. Hewit Distinguished Professor
Lecture, University of Northern Colorado, April 15, 2008.
“Getting in Touch with Slavery and Freedom: Towards a History of Touch in Antebellum
America,” Phi Alpha Theta Lecture, University of Northern Colorado, April 17, 2008.
Paper presented to workshop, “Southern Sources: Focusing the Conversation,” April 11, 2008,
part of a Mellon-funded grant on “Extending the Reach of Southern Sources: Proceeding
to Large-Scale Digitization of Manuscript Collections,” Wilson Library, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Dispatches from South Carolina,” Revisiting Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s Southern Honor 25 Years
Later, Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Richmond, Virginia,
November 1, 2007.
“Desegregating Camille: Braiding Disaster Rights and Civil Rights,” Disaster Roundtable
Workshop 21, The National Academy of Sciences, Keck Center, Washington, D.C.,
October 17, 2007, (by invitation).
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"Making Sense of 'Race' in Southern History," Georgia College and State University,
Milledgeville, Georgia, February 15, 2007 (by invitation).
"When 'Race' Makes Sense in Southern History," James A. Hutchins Lecture, Center for the
Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 30, 2007 (by
invitation)
"Making Sense of 'Race' in Southern History," Department of History and Africana and Latino
Studies, Colgate University, New York, October 18, 2006 (by invitation)
"How Race is Made," The Newberry Library, Chicago, June 10, 2006 (by invitation)
"How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses," Charlotte Museum of History, May
25, 2006.
"How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses," Second Annual James Baird
Colloquium Speaker, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, Miss., April 6, 2006.
"Sensing Race," capstone lecture in "Race and the American South" Lecture Series, Georgia
Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, March 29, 2006
"Sensing Southern Slavery," Department of History, Rice University, Houston, Texas, February
9, 2006.
"Making Sense of the American Civil War," Department of History, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, December 12, 2005.
"John Elliott Cairnes and Southern Slavery," Bastiat Society, Columbia, S.C., September 14, 2005
(by invitation).
"The Stono Rebellion," Charleston Collegiate School and St. John's Island Regional Library, St.
John's Island, S.C., September 9, 2005.
"Making Sense of Southern Slavery," Keynote Address, St. George Tucker Society, Thomson,
Ga., August 5, 2005.
"On Slavery and the South: The State of Historiography," National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Institute, Faulkner and the South, Columbia, S.C., June 16, 2005.
"One Nation, Under Time? Standardizing Time in the United States, 1752 and 1883," "Calendars
of Nation-States: Studies of Traditional Festivals and National Holidays," China Folklore
Society and the Beijing Folklore Museum, February 14-15, 2005, Beijing, China.
"Beyond the Sight of Race in the America South: A Case for Sensory History," Susan B. Cone
Family Distinguished Lecture, University of Wyoming, Laramie, September 30, 2004.
"Losing Sight, Finding Race: Towards a Sensory 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
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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.
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"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.
Comments on Papers/Panels Moderated
Invited participant, “Liberty in the Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriett Jacobs,”
Liberty Fund Colloquium, Indianapolis, April 2-5, 2009. (Honorarium included).
Chair, “State of the Field: Sound Studies and the History of the Aural Environment,”
Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 27, 2009.
Chair, “Aurality and the Experience of Slavery,” American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, New York City, January 4, 2009.
Moderator, “Liberty and Responsibility in the Writings of Zora Heal Hurston,” Liberty Fund
Colloquium, Indianapolis, 17-19 July 2008.
Moderator and Respondent, Center for the Study of Women, gender, and Sexuality, Feminist
Research Group, Rice University, Houston, October 24, 2008.
Discussion Leader, Sound in American History, Teaching American History Grant, Cleveland
State University, 24-25 September, 2008.
Invited participant, “Walter Lippman, Jose Ortega y Gasset, and the Crisis of Modernity,”
Liberty Fund Colloquium, Indianapolis, November 8-11, 2007. (Honorarium included).
Moderator, "New Perspectives on North American Military History: After and Beyond the
Cultural Turn," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians,
Minneapolis, March 30, 2007.
Comments on "Sensing History: Reinterpreting the Body in Historical Perspective," Annual
Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 6, 2007.
Invited participant, "Liberty and Responsibility in Early Christianity," Liberty Fund Colloquium,
November 1-4, 2006, Savannah, Ga. (Honorarium included).
Co-Moderator, "Old Times There: Two Centuries of Building Southern Histories," WatsonBrown Foundation, Thomason, Georgia, February 2-5, 2006.
Invited participant, "Cicero on Liberty and Responsibility," Liberty Fund Colloquium, February
24-26, 2005, La Jolla, California (Honorarium included).
Invited participant, "Liberty in War Time," Liberty Fund Colloquium, January 18-21, 2005,
Miami, Florida. (Honorarium included).
Invited participant, "Constitutional Constructions," Liberty Fund Colloquium, April 1-4, 2004,
Seattle, Washington. (Honorarium included)
Invited participant, "Liberty and Freedom in the Work of F. A. Hayek," Liberty Fund
Colloquium, November 20-24, 2003, Tucson, Arizona. (Honorarium included)
Invited participant, "Liberty and Responsibility in the Gilded Age," Liberty Fund Colloquium,
February 22-25, 2002, San Antonio, Texas. (Honorarium included)
Invited participant, "Liberty in the Age of Revolution," Liberty Fund Colloquium, June 25-31,
2001, Park City, Utah. (Honorarium included)
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Chair and comments, "Sound Barriers: The Social and Religious Acoustics of Space," Group for
Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, November 18, 2001.
Chair, "The South and the Civil War," Francis Lieber Symposium, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, November 9, 2001.
Comments on "Privileged Southerners, the Grand Tour, and the Roots of Regional Identity
before the Civil War," Daniel Kilbride, and "'Over the Water': Frances Butler Leigh's Ten
Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War," Clara Juncker, on a panel, "Traveling to
and from Plantation Society," at a Conference on "Global Currents in Southern History,"
Georgia Southern University, October 21, 2000
Invited participant, "Liberty and Jacksonian America," Liberty Fund Colloquium, October 5-8,
2000, Columbia, S.C. (honorarium included)
Co-Moderator, Caucus on Social History, Annual Meeting of the Historical Society, Boston,
Mass., May 28, 1999.
Moderator, "Labor in the Lowcountry," Slavery in Early South Carolina, Institute for Southern
Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, February 13, 1999.
Comments on John F. Devanny, "'A Loathing pf Public Debt, Taxes, and Excises': The Political
Economy of John Randolph," and Kevin Gannon, "'Mr. Jefferson's Plan of Destruction':
Political Economy and the Federalist Opposition," at a symposium on The Atlantic
World in the Eighteenth Century, University of South Carolina, October 4, 1997.
Comments on Peter A. Coclanis, "How the Low Country was Taken to Task: Slave Labor
Organization in Coastal South Carolina and Georgia," St. George Tucker Society, Annual
Meeting, Emory University, June 7, 1997.
Comments on Alex Byrd, "Gifts to Do Unnatural Things," South Carolina Graduate History
Symposium, University of South Carolina, Spring, 1992.
Interviews/featured
Interviewed on “Sound History,” ABC Radio (Melbourne, Australia), 4 Aug. 2009
Featured Guest, Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? NPR/PRI, Columbia, SC, April 18, 2009
(live; audience of approx. one million listeners).
Interviewed: Conversation about “race,” for CONNECTIONS, SCETV, May 8, 2008; aired May
19, 2008.
"Speaker targets roots of racism," The Daily Tarheel (January 31 2007), p.1.
"Author posits stereotypes to expose racial divisions," The Charlotte Post (June 1, 2006), D1.
ABC News 4, on-camera interview, Stono Rebellion, May 2, 2006
Tom Kearney "open-Line" Show, WPTF-Radio, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., on "How Race Is Made"
April 26, 2006
Claudia Brinson Smith, "USC Professor has a sense of racial stereotypes," The State (Columbia,
S.C.), Sunday, March 5, 2006, E2.
On With Leon, XM Satellite Radio, February 18, 2006 on How Race Is Made.
Conversations with Maurice Hope-Thompson, KTSU, Houston, Texas, February 9, 2006 on How
Race Is Made.
The Tom Pope Show, January 27, 2003, PRN (nationally syndicated) on How Race Is Made.
Walter Edgar's Journal, South Carolina Public Radio, January 11, 2006: on the Stono Rebellion
and How Race Is Made.
Charleston Post and Courier, September 29, 2005, on the Stono Rebellion.
The Boston Globe, July 17, 2005, on the legacy of C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of
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Jim Crow.
The State (Columbia, S.C.), June 3, 2005, on slavery, the Old South, and business.
"Race and Smell," Odyssey, hosted by Gretchen Helfrich, Chicago Public Radio, May 31, 2005
(live).
Interviewed by Emily Eakin for "History You Can See, Hear, Smell, Touch and Taste," New
York Times, Saturday, December 20, 2003.
Carolina Minutes, South Carolina Public Radio, February 5, 2002: on Listening to NineteenthCentury America.
On-camera interview, WJWJ-Beaufort, SC, January 24, 2002: on the sounds of nineteenthcentury 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.
Consultancy Work/Community Service
Talks on the Stono Rebellion and the history of race and racism in the South, Community
Learning About Special Subjects, sponsored by Litchfield Books, Pawleys Island, SC,
March 10, 2006.
Consultant for the exhibition, "On Time," National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington D.C., Spring, 1999.
Interviewed, The State (Columbia), Dec.13, 1998: USC-Warwick Exchange.
Talk, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Columbia, SC, Apr.14, 1999, conceptions of time in
the Old South.
Consultant for the Gullah Connection Task Force, National Park Service and Charles Pinckney
Site, Columbia, SC, March 6, 1998.
Consultancy for South Carolina Educational Television for a documentary on the history of rice
culture in South Carolina, February 1998.
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Invited author to the annual meeting of the South Carolina Center for the Book, Port Royal, SC,
October 12, 1997.
Paid consultant for the exhibition, "On Time," National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1997. Consultancy conducted, Spring 1997.
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 802/852: Graduate Research Seminar on Antebellum America
Graduate Students:
PhD Dissertation Director:
Liese Perrin, 1995-1999 (University of Birmingham), "Slave Women and Work in the American
South," defended 1999 (current position: University of Warwick, UK)
Cheryl Wells; 1997-2002, "Civil War Time(s): Temporality, Identity, and Experience in America,
1861-1865," defended 2002. Dissertation published as Civil War Times: Temporality, Identity,
and Experience in America, 1861-1865 (University of Georgia Press, 2005) (current position:
Associate Professor of History, University of Wyoming).
Kathleen Hilliard; 1999-2006, "Spending in Black and White: The Slaves' Economy in the
Antebellum South," defended 2006 (current position: Assistant Professor of History, University
of Idaho)
Aaron Mars; 2001-2006, "The Iron Horse Turns South A Cultural History of Antebellum
Southern Railroads," defended 2006 (current position: Office of the Historian, State Department,
Washington, DC).
Eric Plaag; 2001-2006, "Strangers in a Strange Land: Northern Travellers and the Coming of the
American Civil War," defended 2006
Rebecca Shrum; 2002-2007, "Mirroring Others/Fashioning Selves: A History of the Looking
Glass in America," defended 2007 (current position: Assistant Professor of History: University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater).
Mike Reynolds; 2000-present: topic: Modernizing the Old South
Rebecca Swanson; 2004-present: topic: Comparative Analysis of Natural Disasters
Jay Richardson; 2004-present: History of Gaslight in the Old South
David Prior; 2005-present: Foreign Affairs and Reconstruction
Ehren Foley; 2005-present: Meanings of Reconstruction
Michael Woods; 2008-present: The History of Emotion and the Coming of the US Civil War
MA Theses:
Cheryl Wells, "Canadian Participation in the American Civil War," 1997
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Jay Richardson," Sound Instruction: Southern Paternalism, Northern Paternalism, and Slave
Music in Nineteenth-Century America," 2006
David Prior, "The Cretan Insurrection and American Reconstruction, 1866-68," 2006
Ehren Foley, "Ends, and Means: Timing Reconstruction," 2006
Honors College Theses Directed:
Parker Ainsworth," Olfaction and the American Civil War," spring 2007
Jonathan Roquemore, "The Meaning of Freedom Among South Carolina Slaves," Spring, 1997.
Ruth Wheeler, "Intimidation, Violence, and Riot: South Carolina in 1876," Fall, 1997. Winner of
the 1997-98 Margaret Watson History Award sponsored by the Confederation of South Carolina
Historical Societies and given to the best undergraduate history paper in the state.
Dee Hazelrigg, "Black Politicians in South Carolina During Reconstruction," Fall, 1997-Spring,
1998.
Chris Major, "Running Away: A Comparative Analysis of Runaway Slaves in Georgia, Texas,
and Virginia," Spring, 1999-Fall, 1999.
Laura Moxie, "Civil War Soundscapes," Fall, 2000-Spring, 2001.
Erica Bruchko, "The Slaves Economy and Community Conflict in the Antebellum South Carolina
Upcountry," Fall, 2000-Spring, 2001.
Senior Theses Directed:
Kelley McCaskill, "Time- and Age-Awareness Among South Carolina Slaves," Fall, 1996.
H. Reese Edwards, "Abandoned Cabins: Slave Runaways in Antebellum South Carolina,"
Spring, 1998.
James W. Warren, "Remembering Sherman: South Carolina and the Burning of Columbia, S.C.,
1865-1965," Spring, 1999.
Jerome Mundy, "The Seamless Web of Intimidation: The Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina During
Reconstruction," Spring, 2000.
Therese Garwacki, "Listening to the Secession Bell," Spring, 2001
University of Birmingham:
EHIS 48H: American Society and Economy: The American Antebellum South, 1994-1995
EHIS 28: American Industrialization 1870-1920, 1995
EHIS 51: American Women's History, 1700-1920, 1995-1996
HIST 209: American History Survey, 1763-1970, 1994-1996.
ACS M103: Seminar in American History, 1620-present, 1995-1996.
EHIS G26: American Women's History, 1700-1920, 1995-1996 (graduate course).
EHIS G20: Methods and Issues in Social and Economic History, 1995-1996 (graduate course).
Undergraduate dissertations directed (BA and B.Soc.Sci.):
From Apathy to Anxiety: Birmingham Views the New Deal
The Influence of Gandhi on Martin Luther King's Civil Rights Philosophy
Frontiers Slave and Free: Comparing the Lives of Slave and Free Women on the American
Frontier, 1830-60
Woodrow Wilson's Relationship with Capital and Labour in the First World War
Slave Clothing and Material Culture
Time and Age-Awareness among American Slaves
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Freedom Came: The Meaning of Emancipation for African-Americans
Causes and Frequency of Slave Punishment in the Antebellum South
Administrative responsibilities and service
University of South Carolina:
University:
Member, Research Opportunities Program Committee, fall 2007-present.
Editorial Board, Breakthrough magazine, spring 2007-present.
Nominated by USC to complete the Assessment Faculty questionnaire on behalf of the
University for the National Academies' Assessment of Research-Doctorate programs
December 2006)
Chair, Faculty Excellence Initiative Committee, 2006.
Group Leader, First-Year Reading Experience, August 15, 2005.
Mentor, First-Year Scholar Experience, July 2005-present
Member, South Carolina Honors College Dean Search, spring, 2005.
Keynote Address, Doctoral Commencement, University of South Carolina, May 11, 2002
Member, Search Committee, University of South Carolina Press Director, fall, 2001-spring, 2002.
Keynote Speaker, First-Year Reading Experience, August 21, 2000
Member, University of South Carolina Press Committee, fall 2000-present.
Member, History and Remembrance Committee, USC Bicentennial Commission, spring, 1999.
College:
Speaker, "Beyond Borders: Making (Better) Sense of Southern History," presentation to USC
National Alumni Association, Washington, DC, November 15, 2007.
Speaker, "Beyond Borders: Making (Better) Sense of Southern History," presentation to Board of
Visitors, College of Arts and Sciences, March 23, 2007.
Chair, Public Health/Southern Studies Search Committee, spring 2007.
Member, Department of English/Institute for Southern Studies Search Committee for a Senior
Scholar of post-1920 Southern Literature, 2005-2006
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Research Search Committee, fall 2005
Member, Research and Productive Scholarship Committee, spring 2003; spring 2004; spring
2005; spring 2006; spring 2007
Member, Carolina Distinguished Professorships Committee, fall 2002-spring 2003
Affiliate, African American Studies Program, spring, 2001-present
Member, Dean's Ad-hoc Advisory Committee, Fall 2000-present
Member, Russell Award Committee, Fall 2000-present
Member, African Diaspora Working Group, Spring, 1999
Member, College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Grants Awards Panel, Fall, 1998
Department:
Member, Strategic Planning Committee, fall 2007
Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee 2004-2005; 2009 (spring)
Member, Executive Committee, spring 2001-2004, 2006-present
Faculty Mentor for new faculty, spring 1999-present.
Chair, Modern Russia Search Committee, fall, 1999-spring, 2000
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Chair, Warwick Exchange Committee, fall, 1997-spring, 2001
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, fall, 1999-fall, 2002; fall, 2004-2006
Member, Graduate Committee, fall, 1999-fall, 2002; fall, 2008-2011
Member, Warwick Exchange Committee, fall, 1997-fall, 1997, spring 2002
Member, Undergraduate Committee, fall, 1997-fall, 1998
Participant, History Practicum Series for Graduate Students: Panel on Publishing Papers in
Academic Journals, Department of History, USC, Feb.3, 1999
University of Birmingham:
Director of Teaching Quality and Curriculum, 1995
Staff-Student Liaison Officer, 1995
Research Seminar Co-ordinator, 1995
Admissions Officer for Non-Traditional Students, 1994-1995
History Liaison Officer, 1994-1995
Letters for Tenure and Promotion and/or Appointment
University of Nevada, Reno (1998) (full professor)
Harvard University (1999, 2002) (full professor)
University of Missouri-Columbia (2001, 2003) (associate professor)
Emory University (2002) (full professor)
Columbia University (2002) (full professor)
University of Warwick (UK) (2004) (senior lecturer)
University of California—Los Angeles (2006) (full professor)
University of Alabama (2007) (full professor)
Hamilton College (2008) (full professor)
City University of New York—Queens College (2008) (full professor: anthropology)
University of Kentucky (2009) (full professor).
University of Missouri--Kansas City (2009) (Associate Professor).