Advising & Mentoring
Current graduate students:
Amanda Hughett, “"Silencing the Cell Block: The Making of Modern Prison Administration in North Carolina and the Nation, 1968-1996",” ABD, in progress; now a Law and Social Sciences Dissertation Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago
Will Goldsmith, “Kids, the New Cash Crop: Educating for Economic Development in North Carolina’s Black Belt, 1965–2000,” ABD, in progress
Tiffany Holland, “’United by Blood, Color, and Flag’: Imperial Blackness and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” ABD, in progress
Eladio Bobadilla, “‘One People without Borders’: The Chicano Roots of the Immigrants Rights Movement, 1954-1994,” ABD, in progress
Hannah Ontiveros, “The Personal Is Imperial: The American Legion Auxiliary’s En-Gendering of Cold War Politics in the Korean War,” currently preparing portfolio for defense
Previous PhD advisees with dissertation topics and current positions:
Michele Mitchell, “Adjusting the Race: Gender, Sexuality and the Question of African-American Destiny, 1870-1930,” Ph.D. 1998, now associate professor, New York University
Steven Reich, “The Making of a Southern Sawmill World: Race, Class and Rural Transformation in the Piney Woods of East Texas,” Ph.D. 1999, now professor, James Madison University
Wallace Best, “Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Racial Ideology and Religious Culture in the Black Churches of Chicago, 1915-1963,” Ph.D. 2000, now professor, African American Studies and Religion Departments, Princeton University
Leslie Dunlap, “In the Name of the Home : Temperance Women and Southern Grass-roots Politics, 1873-1933,” Ph.D. 2001, now visiting professor, Willamette University
Charlotte Brooks, “Ascending California’s Racial Hierarchy: Asian Americans, Housing and Government, 1920-1955,” Ph.D. 2002, now professor, Baruch College-CUNY
Marisa Chappell, “From Welfare Rights to Welfare Reform: The Politics of AFDC, 1964-1984,” Ph.D. 2002, finalist for Lerner-Scott Prize; now associate professor, Oregon State University
Anastasia Mann, “All for One, but Most for Some: Veteran Politics and the Shaping of the WelfareState during the World War II Era," Ph.D. 2003; now Director of the Program on Immigration and Democracy, Rutgers University
Karen Leroux, “Veterans of the Schools: Women’s Work in U.S. Public Education, 1866-1902,” Ph.D. 2005, now associate professor, Drake University
Brett Gadsden, “‘All We Wanted Was a Bus for the Colored’: The Ironies of School Desegregation in Delaware, 1948-1978,” Ph.D. 2006, now associate professor, Northwestern University
Erik Gellman, “Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress, 1936-1948,” Ph.D. 2006, co-winner Harold Perkin Prize for best dissertation; now associate professor, Roosevelt University
Jarod Roll, “Road to the Promised Land: Rural Grassroots Struggles for Economic Justice in the New Cotton South, 1890-1945,” Ph.D. 2006, awarded the Labor History Best Dissertation Prize and the Herbert Gutman Prize of the Labor and Working Class History Association and finalist, C. Vann Woodward Prize, Southern Historical Association; now associate professor, University of Mississippi
Crystal Sanders, “To Be Free of Fear: Mississippi Black Women and Head Start, 1965-1967,” Ph.D., 2011, awarded the C. Vann Woodward Prize, Southern Historical Association, and the Claude A. Eggertsen Dissertation Prize from the History of Education Society; now associate professor, Penn State University
Rebecca Marchiel, "'To Make This City Viable Again': National People's Action and Urban Reinvestment, 1968-1989," PhD, June 2015, now assistant professor, University of Mississippi
Alexander Gourse, “The Containment of Public Interest Law and the Undermining of the Liberal State in Ronald Reagan’s California, 1964-1988,” PhD, June 2015, then JD from Stanford Law School, now clerking for federal Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer in the Northern District of Illinois
Scovill Currin, Jr. "An Army of the Willing: Fayette'Nam, Soldier Dissent, and the End of Soldier Dissent, 1968-2005,” Ph.D. 2015, now Col., US Air Force, and Commander, 437th Operations Group, Joint Base Charleston, S.C.
Jonathon Free, “Redistributing Risk: The Political Ecology of Coal in Late-Twentieth Century Appalachia,” Ph.D. 2016, now postdoctoral associate, Energy Initiative, Duke University