718 Keltner Avenue
\nSpartanburg, South Carolina 29302
\n(864) 585-5437<\/p>\n
Doctor of Philosophy (History), Florida State University, 1990.<\/p>\n
Master of Arts (History), Florida State University, 1986.<\/p>\n
Bachelor of Arts (History), Florida State University, 1985.<\/p>\n
Associate of Arts, North Florida Junior College, 1983.<\/p>\n
Chair of the Department of History, Wofford College, 2008-2010.<\/p>\n
Associate Professor of History, Wofford College, 1997-present. Courses include Western Civilization, American History Survey, Southern History, Ancient History, African American History, American Social and Intellectual History 1763-1865, Frontier History, and American Women’s History.<\/p>\n
Assistant Professor of History, Wofford College, 1991-1997.<\/p>\n
Temporary Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University, 1990-1991. Taught American History survey courses to three sections each quarter.<\/p>\n
Gordon Rule Instructor, Florida State University, 1989-1990. Evaluated and graded Gordon Rule papers, advised students on writing techniques.<\/p>\n
Teaching Assistant, Florida State University, 1988-1989. Taught American Civilization survey course to sections of 50 and 100 students.<\/p>\n
Graduate Assistant, Florida State University, Fall 1987. Assisted two professors with American Civilization courses. Proctored exams, recorded grades, and conducted review sessions.<\/p>\n
Museum Education Intern, Museum of Florida History, Summer 1986. Conducted introductions and tours for all age levels, assisted with grade school traveling programs.<\/p>\n
Teaching Internship, Florida Developmental Research School, 1984-1985. Taught junior-level American History and Economics.<\/p>\n
Received Wofford Summer Research Grant, 2009. Ongoing work in the history of Florida tourism.<\/p>\n
Received Wofford Summer Research Grant, 1995. Worked in primary sources on the topic of Florida’s women during the Civil War.<\/p>\n
Conducted genealogical research for Jacob C. Belin, Chairman of St. Joe Paper Company, Spring 1989.<\/p>\n
Conducted research for the Florida Supreme Court Gender Bias Study Commission and wrote an outline for the Commission’s chapter on domestic violence, Summer 1988.<\/p>\n
Conducted research in primary materials for a professor with work in progress, Spring 1988.<\/p>\n
“Watery Eden: A History of Wakulla Springs, Florida.” Directed by Dr. William Warren Rogers. This doctoral dissertation explores the social, literary, environmental and economic aspects of a popular Florida resort. It also examines the issue of conservation versus development.<\/p>\n
Southern History, 19th Century American History, Women’s History.<\/p>\n
Classes and Interims Taught At Wofford College<\/p>\n
HIS 101 and 102 (Western Civilization)<\/p>\n
HIS 201 and 202 (American History)<\/p>\n
HUM 101 (Humanities)<\/p>\n
HIS 309 (American Colonial Society)<\/p>\n
HIS 311 (Topics in American Social History)<\/p>\n
HIS 316 (Topics in African-American History—Slavery)<\/p>\n
HIS 317 (History of the American Frontier)<\/p>\n
HIS 319 (History of American Women)<\/p>\n
HIS 330 (The Ancient World)<\/p>\n
HIS 447 and 448 (Major Reading)<\/p>\n
HIS 485, Seminars in Women and War and Southern Women<\/p>\n
*Sherlock Holmes<\/p>\n
*Historical Mystery Novels<\/p>\n
*The Women in His life: Henry VIII and His Six Wives<\/p>\n
*History Under Glass: Historical Museums<\/p>\n
*Shop \u2018Till You Drop<\/p>\n
*From Togas to Tommy (Hilfiger)<\/p>\n
*Unsolved and Sexy: Historical Mysteries and Scandals<\/p>\n
2007-2008 Wofford College Faculty Member of the Year<\/p>\n
2005 Rembert Patrick Prize for Grander in Her Daughters.<\/p>\n
University Fellowship, Florida State University, 1985-1986.<\/p>\n
Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, 1985.<\/p>\n
Phi Beta Kappa, 1985.<\/p>\n
Phi Kappa Phi, 1985.<\/p>\n
Florida State University College Bowl Team, 1985.<\/p>\n
Marshall Hamilton Scholarship, 1983.<\/p>\n
NFJC Student of the Year, 1983.<\/p>\n
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society<\/p>\n
Southern Historical Association<\/p>\n
Florida Historical Society<\/p>\n
Survivors of the Gloria Scott (Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars)<\/p>\n
Grander in Her Daughters: Florida\u2019s Women During the Civil War. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Favorite Florida Place: Wakulla Springs,\u201d Forum: Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, Winter 2004.<\/p>\n
Watery Eden: A History of Wakulla Springs. Tallahassee: Sentry Press, 2002.<\/p>\n
\u201cBilly Sunday,\u201d article in St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2001.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrander in the Daughters: Florida’s Women During the Civil War,\u201d Florida Historical Quarterly, Winter 1999.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlorida in the 1940s,\u201d in Florida’s Heritage of Diversity: Essays in Honor of Samuel Procter, Sentry Press, 1997.<\/p>\n
“Ed Ball: Last of the Robber Barons,” in Florida Pathfinders, Saint Leo Press, 1994.<\/p>\n
“Blitzkrieg of Joy: Florida Tourism During World War II,” in Florida at War, Saint Leo press, 1993.<\/p>\n
\u201cVolcano Was Wakulla Swamp Mystery,\u201d Tampa Tribune, 20 August 1989.<\/p>\n
“Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography,” Raconteur: A Journal of World History,<\/p>\n
Florida State University, Summer 1990.<\/p>\n
“Florida’s Peace River Frontier,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 1991.<\/p>\n
“Big Top Boss,” Florida Historical Quarterly, July, 1993.<\/p>\n
“Selling the Dream,” Gulf Coast Historical Review, Fall 1995.<\/p>\n
“Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Spring 1995.<\/p>\n
“Read ‘Em and Weep,” Book Review column, Old Gold and Black, Wofford College, 1995-1996.<\/p>\n
“Femina Perfecta: The Genesis of Florida State University,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 1996.<\/p>\n
“Pioneer Family: Life on Florida’s Twentieth Century Frontier,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 1996.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Faithful Heart: The Journals of Emmala Reed, 1865 and 1866,\u201d Journal of Southern History, November 2005.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat Necessities: The Life, Times and Writing of Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894,\u201d Journal of Southern History, May 2006.<\/p>\n
Florida’s Black Public Officials by Canter Brown, Jr. Reviewed for the University of Alabama Press, 1996.<\/p>\n
Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives by James M. Denham and Canter Brown, Jr. Reviewed for the University of South Carolina Press, 1997.<\/p>\n
Echoes From A Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters\u2019 Correspondence From Antebellum Florida. Reviewed for the University of South Carolina Press, 2003.<\/p>\n
Weeki Wachee: City of Mermaids by Lu Vickers and Sara Dionne. Reviewed for University Press of Florida, 2006.<\/p>\n
“In His Image: Ed Ball’s Wakulla Springs,” presented to the Tallahassee Historical Society, Tallahassee, Florida, April 20, 1989.<\/p>\n
“Lest Other Hearts Bleed: Tallahassee’s Women in the Civil War,” presented at the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, April 27, 1990.<\/p>\n
“Wakulla Springs and the Ironies of Conservationism,” presented at the Tri-State Historical Societies Meeting, St. Augustine, Florida, October 5, 1990.<\/p>\n
“Lights, Camera, Wakulla!” presented to the Tallahassee Historical Society, Tallahassee, Florida, April 25, 1991.<\/p>\n
“Be Sure and Stay: Wakulla Springs Through the Guidebooks,” presented at the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, May 9, 1991.<\/p>\n
“Blitzkrieg of Joy: Florida Tourism During World War II,” presented at the World War II Homefront in the South Symposium, sponsored by the National Archives, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2, 1992.<\/p>\n
“Blitzkrieg of Joy: Florida Tourism During World War II,” presented at the Florida Historical Society Meeting, Pensacola, Florida, May 22, 1993.<\/p>\n
“Cotton Blossoms or Steel Magnolias: Plantation Women in the Antebellum South,” Clinch Valley College, Virginia, March 3, 1994.<\/p>\n
“Ed Ball: Last of the Robber Barons,” presented at the Florida Historical Society Meeting, Ft. Myers, Florida, May 21, 1994.<\/p>\n
Commentator, South Carolina Historical Association Meeting, Spartanburg, March 2, 1996.<\/p>\n
“My Heart Will Break Like Thunder: Florida’s Women During the Civil War,” presented at the Florida Conference of Historians Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, February 21, 1997.<\/p>\n
Session Chairman, Florida Historical Society Meeting, Jacksonville, May 30, 1997.<\/p>\n
\u201cRise Ladies, Change Places: St. Augustine\u2019s Women During The Civil War,\u201d Allen Morris Conference on the History of Florida and the Atlantic World, Florida State University, Tallahassee, February 12, 2000.<\/p>\n
“Watery Eden,” Florida Nature Writers’ Panel, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park, April 28, 2002.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrander in Her Daughters: Florida\u2019s Women During the Civil War,\u201d presentation as part of the Florida Southern Lecture Series, Florida Southern, October 20, 2005<\/p>\n
\u201cHoop Dreams: Women\u2019s Fashions In The 19th Century,\u201d presentation at the Crawford Long Museum, March 1, 2005.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore Than A Man\u2019s Courage: Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast Women and the Civil War,\u201d guest speech at the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, October 6, 2006.<\/p>\n
\u201cSherlock 101: Holmes in the College Classroom,\u201d presentation at Tyron Sherlock Holmes Festival, September 29, 2007.<\/p>\n
\u201cState of Imagination: Florida\u2019s Golden Age of Tourism,\u201d presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville, March 1, 2008.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Funeral Cough: Tuberculosis Tourism in Antebellum Saint Augustine,\u201d presentation at the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May 24, 2008.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlorida Women and Battles,\u201d series of presentations at the Olustee Battle Festival, Lake City, Florida, February 10-11, 2009.<\/p>\n
\u2014Library Committee, 1991-1995.<\/p>\n
\u2014Library Self-Study Committee, 1995-1996.<\/p>\n
\u2014President’s Advisory Committee, 1995-1997.<\/p>\n
\u2014Interim Committee 1998-1999<\/p>\n
—Education Committee 1999-present<\/p>\n
\u2014Vice-President, Wofford Chapter Phi Beta Kappa, 1995-1996.<\/p>\n
I enjoy keeping a Wofford blog and writing fiction.<\/p>\n
Dr. William Warren Rogers, Professor Emeritus<\/p>\n
Florida State University<\/p>\n
Tallahassee, Florida 32306<\/p>\n
(904) 644-5888<\/p>\n
Dr. Richard A. Bartlett, Professor Emeritus<\/p>\n
Florida State University<\/p>\n
Tallahassee, Florida 32306<\/p>\n
(904) 644-5888<\/p>\n
Dr. Ross Bayard, Professor Emeritus<\/p>\n
Wofford College<\/p>\n
429 N. Church Street<\/p>\n
Spartanburg, SC 29303-3663<\/p>\n
(864) 597-4550<\/p>\n
Dr. Philip N. Racine, Professor Emeritus<\/p>\n
Wofford College<\/p>\n
429 N. Church Street<\/p>\n
Spartanburg, South Carolina 29303-3663<\/p>\n
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