David H. Connolly Jr.
University of North Georgia
Department of History, Anthropology,
& Philosophy
Dahlonega, Georgia 30597
(706) 867–3511
Education
Rice University (Houston, Texas)
Ph. D., United States History, 2008
Dissertation: “A Question of Honor: State Character and the Lower South’s Defense of
the African Slave Trade in Congress, 1789–1807”
Advisor: Dr. John Boles
Qualifying exams in the fields of nineteenth-century U.S. South, Colonial and Early
American history, and Caribbean history, passed August 2002
M.A., History, 2003
University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
M.A., History, 2000
Thesis: “The Conservative Republicanism of Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin: The
Political, Economic, and Moral Regeneration of the Antebellum South.”
Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University (Macon, Georgia)
J.D., 1980
Presbyterian College (Clinton, South Carolina)
B.S., 1976
Awards and Honors
2002, Co-recipient, James C. Bonner Award for the best Master’s Thesis on Georgia History for
2000-2001. Awarded by the Georgia Historical Society and the Center for Georgia Studies at
Georgia College and State University.
2000, Carl S. Vipperman Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia,
Department of History.
1978-1980, Member, Mercer Law Review, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University
2000-2005, Rice University Departmental Fellowship
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Grants
2003, Travel Grant, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina (Columbia,
South Carolina)
Publications and Presentations
Book Note: The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays. Edited
by Christopher C. Meyers (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2009), Journal of Southern
History 75 (May 2009): 516.
Review: The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond. Edited by Barry Alan
Shain (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007), Journal of Southern
History 76 (August 2010): 703-05.
Review: Helen Clark, The Yazoo Land Fraud (Louisville, Ga.: Jefferson County Historical
Society, 2009), Journal of Southern Legal History 19 (2011): 337.
Review: Paul Pruitt, Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804—1929 (Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2010), Journal of Southern History 77 (November 2011): 932-33.
Review: David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds., Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of
the International Slave Trade Bans (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012),
Journal of Southern History (Forthcoming)
Review: Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter, eds., Signposts: New Directions in
Southern Legal History (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), Journal of Southern
History (Forthcoming)
Article: "Remembering the Founding Fathers: Joseph Henry Lumpkin and the Preservation of an
Antebellum Republican South," Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South 46, no. 1
(2004).
New Georgia Encyclopedia Entries (an Internet website sponsored by the Georgia Humanities
Council, the Office of the Governor, the University of Georgia Press, and the University System
of Georgia/GALILEO):
“Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799- 1867)”
“Henry Harford Cumming (1799-1866)”
Co-author, “Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress: Liability to the Bystander—Recent
Developments,” 30 Mercer Law Review 735 (1979)
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Presentation, “The Yazoo Land Fraud and the Nature of Bribery and Political Corruption,”
Georgia Legal History Foundation Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, May 24, 2012.
Presentation, “Judge John Erskine and the Reconstituted Federal Court in Reconstruction
Georgia,” Court Advisory Committee for the United States District Court, Southern District of
Georgia, Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida, February 25, 2012.
Presentation, “Henry Cumming, Secession, and the Rule of Law,” Augusta and the Civil War in
1861 Symposium, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia, November 12, 2011.
Panel Presentation, “ The Constitution as Moral Standard: State Character and the South
Carolina Defense of the African Slave Trade, 1790-1807,” South Carolina Historical Association
Annual Meeting, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, March 12, 2011.
Presentation, “Planters, Plantations, and Southern Identity,” Augusta-Richmond County
Historical Society, Augusta, Georgia, November 18, 2008.
Conference Presentation, “Awakening of the National Consciousness: The Quakers and the
Abolition of the African Slave Trade in the United States,” Conference on the Black Experience:
The Abolition of the Slave Trade: 200 Years of the Black Diaspora, Paine College, Augusta,
Georgia, February 7, 2008.
Presentation, “A Connecticut Yankee in the South: Edward Hooker’s Sojourn,” Augusta
Museum of History Brown Bag Lecture Series, Augusta, Georgia, October 6, 2004.
Presentation, "Joseph Henry Lumpkin's Evangelicalism and Secular Judicial Practice: The Twain
Shall Never Meet," Legal History Seminar (Prof. E. Ray Lanier), Georgia State University
School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, February 26, 2003, and March 15, 2010.
Presentation, “The Cumming Family at War,” Civil War Symposium, Augusta State University,
Augusta, Georgia, May 8, 2003.
Teaching Experience and Employment
Instructor, University of North Georgia (August 2012-Current)
Courses Taught:
United States History I and II
Historiography
Georgia History (On-line)
History of the Old South
U.S. Legal History
University Service:
Speaker, Constitution Day, September, 2012
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Company Advocate, Corps of Cadets, Foxtrot Company (On-going)
Student Grade Appeal Committee
Faculty Advisory Board, University Press of North Georgia
Reader, University Press of North Georgia
Departmental Service: History 2000 (Historiography) Revision Committee (Ad Hoc)
Supervisor:
Dr. Timothy May
Chair, Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy
82 College Circle
Dahlonega, Georgia 30597
(706) 864-1913
Lecturer,
Georgia College & State University, August 2007-May 2012
Courses Taught:
Colonial South
Georgia History: From Colony to State
Revolutionary America
Revolutionary America: Reacting to the Past
United States History Through Reconstruction
United States History Since Reconstruction
Historical Research and Writing
United States Abolitionism Through the Civil War
Antebellum Plantation Society and Culture
History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
World Civilization II (Since 1500)
Southern Constitutionalism and Sectionalism
Southern History In Film
Supervisor:
Dr. Stephen Auerbach (interim chair)
Georgia College & State University
Department of History, Geography,
and Philosophy
CBX 047
Milledgeville, Georgia 31061–0490
(478) 445-8276
Departmental Service: Historical Research and Writing/Senior Thesis Committee (ad hoc)
Teacher Assessment Revision Committee (ad hoc)
University Service: Faculty Affairs Policy Committee (2011-2012)
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Adjunct Instructor, North Harris College,
Courses Taught:
January-May 2007; January-May 2006,
August 2005- May 2006
U.S. History since 1877
U.S. History to 1877
Supervisor:
Dr. Jim Good
North Harris College
2700 W.W. Thorne Dr.
Houston, Texas 77073-3499
(281) 618-5573
Grading Group Manager, Rice University Freshman Composition Exam, Summer 2006
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005
Supervisor: Dr. Deborah J. Barrett
(713) 348-5394
Duties included grading Rice University freshmen essays to determine their need for additional
instruction in academic writing. Additionally, I supervised a panel of graders ensuring timely
completion and consistent application of the exam’s guidelines. I also served on the appeals
panel.
Instructor, St. Thomas’ Episcopal School, Fall 2004-June 2005
Courses Taught:
Ninth Grade, U.S. History to 1860, Fall 2004
Eighth Grade, Ancient and Medieval History, Fall 2004-June 2005
St. Thomas’ Episcopal School
4900 Jackwood St
Houston, Texas 77235-5096
(713) 666-3111
Supervisor: Col. John Hilliard
Mock SAT Essay Grader, March–April 2005
Knowsys Test Prep
1528 Babbling Brook Drive
Grand Prairie, Texas 75050
(972) 602-7968
Supervisor: Dr. Sheila Griffith
Duties involved assessing quality of practice SAT essays and conformity to SAT test standards.
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Research Assistant, University Governance Committee, February-September 2003
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005
Supervisor: Dr. John Ambler
(713) 348-3370
Researched university governance organizations and structures for faculty committee
considering changes in faculty governance institutions
Adjunct Instructor, U.S. History to 1877, Spring 2003
Houston Community College, Central Campus
1300 Holman St.
Houston, Texas 77004
Supervisor: Dr. John Moretta
(713) 718-6229
Instructor, Rice University, U.S. History to 1877, Summer 2003
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005
Contact: Carolee Schenk
(713) 348-6110
Research Assistant to Prof. Alex Lichtenstein, Fall 2002
Rice University
Department of History
MS-42, P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
Supervisor: Dr. Alex Lichtenstein
(713) 348-2397
Duties centered on researching debt/peonage law in twentieth-century U.S. South.
Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, 1998-2000
Assisted professors in U.S. History Survey courses both to and from 1877. Prepared and
conducted two weekly discussions regarding topics and themes raised in the survey
course lectures. Each discussion group consisted of 25 students. Responsible for grading
tests and assigned papers, meeting with students regarding course performance and
related issues.
Supervisors: Varied
Law Practice:
1992-1998 Attorney, solo practice, Savannah and Springfield, Georgia, focusing on civil
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litigation, criminal defense, and corporate law. (Licensed to practice law in Georgia and South
Carolina. Licenses voluntarily surrendered after entering Rice University)
1988-1992, Attorney (partner) with the law Firm of Painter, Ratterree, Connolly, and Bart,
Savannah, Georgia, with a concentration in civil litigation
1983-1988, Attorney (associate 1983-1985, partner 1985-1988) with the law firm of Karsman,
Brooks, Painter, and Callaway, Savannah, Georgia, with a concentration in civil litigation
1981-1983, Law clerk for the Hon. Dudley H. Bowen, Jr., United States District Court for the
Southern District of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
1980-1981, Law clerk for the Hon. William R. Killian, Judge, Superior Courts, Brunswick
Judicial Circuit, Brunswick, Georgia
Related Experience
2000-2002, Graduate Editorial Assistant, Journal of Southern History, Rice University
Supervisor: Dr. John Boles, (713) 348-6039
Community Service
Current, Member, Board of Selections, Georgia Women of Achievement
Current, Adult Literacy Program, Dahlonega, Georgia (Tutor and Steering Committee Member)
Member, Leadership Lumpkin Class of 2014