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EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Candidate, ABD
University of Georgia - Athens, GA
Dissertation: "The Blessings of Business: Corporate America and
Conservative Evangelicalism in the Sunbelt Age, 1945-2000"
Committee: James C. Cobb (chair), John C. Inscoe, Laura Mason,
Bethany E. Moreton
Research/teaching
interests: twentieth century U.S. religion, politics, and
culture, business history, transnational history, South/Sunbelt,
popular music
Comprehensive
exam fields: post-1865 American history, pre-1865 American
history, cultural studies, world history
M.A.,
December, 2004
University of Georgia - Athens, GA
B.A., June, 2001
Furman University - Greenville, SC
Majors: History and Communication Studies
REFEREED ARTICLES
"Marketplace
Missionaries: S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A, and the Sunbelt South"
in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising:
The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South
and Southwest (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
forthcoming).
"Selling
a 'Disneyland for the Devout': Religious Marketing at Jim Bakker's
Heritage USA" in Dominic Janes, ed. Shopping for Jesus:
Faith in Marketing in the USA (Washington, D.C.: New Academia
Publishing, 2008).
"'The
South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization
of Hip-Hop America" in Southern Cultures, vol. 12,
no. 4 (Winter 2006).
"All
in Good Fun: Alcohol Culture and Recreational Space in Post-War
Upstate South Carolina" in Southern Historian, vol.
27 (Spring 2006).
"Sam
Jones, Sam Hose, and the Theology of Racial Violence" in
Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 1 (Spring 2006).
REVIEWS
AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Review of
Steven P. Miller, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican
South (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
for H-NC Discussion Network (forthcoming).
"Rap Music," in Larry Griffin and Peggy Hargis, eds.,
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 21:
Social Class (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
forthcoming).
"Suburbanization" in Wanda Rushing, ed., The New
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 17: Urbanization
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).
"Evangelicalism"
and "Religious Fundamentalism" in Roger Chapman, ed.
Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars: Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints
(Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2009).
Review of
Charles Reagan Wilson and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public
Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode (Lanham: Rowan
and Littlefield, 2005) in The Journal of Southern Religion,
vol. 9 (2006).
"Megachurches,"
"Church of God," "African Methodist Episcopal Church,"
"Assemblies of God," "Lutheran Church," "Southern
Baptists," and "Henry W. Grady" in John C. Inscoe,
ed. The New Georgia Encyclopedia (2004-2007).
COURSES
TAUGHT
University of Georgia -- Athens, GA
HIST2112
-- American History Since 1865
(Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Summer 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009)
HIST2702 -- World
Civilizations II, Since 1500
(Spring 2009)
HIST3073 -- Modern
America, 1945-Present
(Fall 2008)
HIST3150 -- Religion
in American History
(Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008)
CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION
"Marketplace Missionaries: S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A,
and the Sunbelt South." Public presentation for Part II of
II of "Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region
in the American South and Southwest," Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, Texas, April 24-25, 2009. Panel: "Beyond
Borders."
"South
Toward Heaven: America's Southern Rim and the Transnational Missions
of Christian Entrepreneurs." Paper presented at the 123rd
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York
City, New York, January 2-5, 2009. Panel organizer: "Missions
to the World: Transnational Perspectives on Modern American Religions."
"Evangelical
Businesses, Suburban Development, and Cultural Politics in America's
Southern Rim." Paper presented at the Fourth Biennial Conference
of the Urban History Association, Houston, Texas, November 5-9,
2008. Panel: "Sunbelt Boom and the Politics of the Right."
"Postmodern
Blues: Alt-Country, Southern Rap, and Life in the Un-Sunbelt."
Invited paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the St. George
Tucker Society, Augusta, Georgia, August 7-10, 2008. Panel: "The
Neo-New South?"
"The
Political Economy of a Chicken Sandwich: S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A,
and the Sunbelt South." Public presentation for Part I of
II of "Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region
in the American South and Southwest," Huntington Library,
San Marino, California, July 18-19, 2008. Panel: "Contingent
Places."
"From
Christ-Haunted to God Blessed: Thinking About Post-War Prosperity
and the Evangelical Upstate." Invited paper presented at
the Clemson-Furman University Conference on "Our Past Before
Us: The Search for the South Carolina Upcountry," Greenville,
South Carolina, March 8-10, 2007. Panel: "Religion and Cultural
Shifts in the Upcountry."
"Long
as I Got My Plastic Jesus: Church Culture, Business Culture, and
the Remaking of America's Bible Belt." Paper presented at
the Boston College Conference on the History of Religion, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 24-25, 2006.
Panel organizer with John Hayes: "Rethinking the Bible Belt:
Modernization, Culture, and Religious Transformation in Twentieth
Century America."
"'The
South Got Something to Say': Race, Region, and the Rise of Atlanta's
Rap Industry." Paper presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting
of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, Georgia, November
16-20, 2005. Panel: "Atlanta, Georgia, the South."
"Sam
Jones and Sam Hose: An Evangelist's Public Debate with Lynching
in Georgia." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Georgia Association of Historians, Kennesaw, Georgia, April 2-3,
2004. Panel: "The New South."
AWARDS
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School, University
of Georgia, Fall 2009-Spring 2010. $13,000 award for funding the
final year of dissertation writing.
Numan V. Bartley Award, Department of History, University of Georgia,
2008. $400 award for funding dissertation research.
Warner-Fite
Award, Department of History, University of Georgia, 2008. $250
award for an outstanding graduate student in American/U.S. history.
American
History Dissertation Award, Colonial Dames of America, 2007. $2,000
award for funding dissertation research.
Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award, Office of Instructional Support and
Development, University of Georgia, 2004-2005.
Phi Beta Kappa, Furman University, 2001.
Phi Alpha
Theta, Furman University, 2000.
Phi Eta Sigma,
Furman University, 1997.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Contributing editor, Religion
and American History Blog, 2007-present.
Organization of American Historians, 2004-present.
American Historical Association, 2003-present.
Southern Historical Association, 2003-present.
SERVICE
Graduate
Student Representative, Policy Committee, Department of History,
University of Georgia, 2008-2009.
Teacher, Institute of Reading Development Summer Program, 2003-2006.
ESL Instructor, 2003-2004.
Updated:
06/24/09
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