Curriculum Vitae
R. Phillip Stone, II
Archives, Sandor Teszler Library
Wofford College 246 S. Spring St.
Spartanburg, SC 29303 Spartanburg, SC 29306
864-597-4313
stonerp@wofford.edu
Education
University of South Carolina, Ph. D. in history, 2003. Major in US Since 1876, minors in US from 1789-1876, Colonial America, and Archives Administration. Dissertation title: “Making a Modern State: The Politics of Economic Development in South Carolina, 1938-1962,” written under the direction of Lacy Ford.
University of Georgia, M.A. in history, 1996. Thesis entitled “From Yellow Dog Dominance to Republican Rule: The Emergence of a Republican Political Majority in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 1980-1994,” written under the direction of Bryant Simon.
Wofford College, B.A. in history and government, magna cum laude, 1994, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, received departmental awards in history and government.
Appointments
Archivist of Wofford College, March 1999-present. As archivist, I am responsible for acquiring, arranging, describing, preserving, and providing reference assistance to the college’s permanently valuable records. I also perform these functions for the South Carolina United Methodist Collection, which has placed its records in the college archives. I served as acting director of the library in the summer of 2014.
Teaching
Southern Politics, Fall 2008, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2016 Developed course for juniors and seniors.
South Carolina Politics and Government, Fall 2013, Fall 2017. Developed course for juniors and seniors focusing on South Carolina.
Western Civilization Since 1815, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019.
Co-instructor of Topics in South Carolina History with president and professor emeritus Joab Lesesne, Fall 2007, Spring 2012. I lectured to about one-third of the class meetings, developed readings, and graded assignments.
Remember the Cowpens, January 2018, January term course on the history of the southern campaign of the American Revolution
Oral History, January 2014, January term course on the practice of oral history.
Assisted in course development and leadership of South Carolina in the American Revolution seminar led by Professor Emeritus Joab Lesesne, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006.
Additionally, I have taught several short courses for the Lifelong Learning at Wofford program, which features 8-week courses for senior adult learners. I’ve taught courses in colonial South Carolina, 19th century South Carolina, 20th century South Carolina, Southern Politics, and Personalities in South Carolina, all since 2015.
Books
Wofford College: The Campus History Series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010.
Linda Bilanchone, with Phillip Stone: The Seay House. Spartanburg, SC, 2011.
Doyle Boggs, JoAnn Mitchell Brasington, and Phillip Stone, editors, Wofford: Shining With Untarnished Honor. Spartanburg, Hub City Writers Group, 2005.
Articles
“Economic Development and Globalization in South Carolina” with Lacy K. Ford, Jr. in Southern Cultures (Spring 2007), pp. 18-50.
“A Battle for their Rights: Race and Reaction in South Carolina, 1940-1948” in the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, 1998.
Paper Presentations
“South Carolina Economic Development in the Cold War,” presented at Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Seattle, WA, March 28, 2009.
“Developer-in-Chief: The Evolving Role of South Carolina Governors in Economic Development, 1950-1962” presented at the Southern Industrialization Project Workshop, Southern Historical Association, Richmond, VA, November 2, 2007
“A Battle for their Rights: Race and Reaction in South Carolina, 1940-48” presented at the South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, March 7, 1998.
Essays and Encyclopedia Articles
“George Washington Carver” in Stars Fell on Spartanburg, Hub City Writers Project, 2008.
“Wofford College in World War II” in When The Soldiers Came to Town, Spartanburg, SC: Hub City Writers Project, 2004.
“Olin D. Johnston,” in Textile Town, Spartanburg, SC: Hub City Writers Project, 2002.
Eight articles in the South Carolina Encyclopedia, edited by Walter Edgar, (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) including “Richard Manning Jefferies,” “Wofford College,” “South Carolina Department of Commerce,” “Robert M. Figg,” “Public Service Authority,” “Thomas H. Pope,” “Clement F. Haynsworth,” and “Bond Bill of 1929”
Book Reviews
Review of Seth C. McKee, Republican Ascendancy in Southern U. S. House Elections, in Journal of Southern History, February 2011. http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&hid=2&sid=31e0ab5e-dec3-4fc7-8fa0-f0a2a7eb055c%40sessionmgr4
Review of Larry Sanders, Mighty Peculiar Elections, Journal of Southern History, February 2009. http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&hid=2&sid=31e0ab5e-dec3-4fc7-8fa0-f0a2a7eb055c%40sessionmgr4
Review of Bruce W. Eelman, Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry; Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 1845-1880, South Carolina Historical Magazine, August 2009.
Review of G. C. Waldrep III’s Southern Workers and the Search For Community, Journal of Southern History, August 2002.
Review of Marko Maunula, Guten Tag, Y’all: Globalization and the South Carolina Piedmont, 1950-2000 (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2009) on H-Southern Industrialization, H-Net Listserv, July 2010. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29435
Review of John Kenneth Morland, Millways of Kent,(Southern Classics Series, University of South Carolina Press, 2008) on H-Southern Industrialization, H-Net listserv, April 2009. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22932
Review of Horace Huntley and David Montgomery, Black Workers and the Struggle for Equality in Birmingham, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2004) on H-South, H-Net listserv, June 2006. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=11917
Review of Kari Fredrickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt, and of Augustus B. Cochran III, Democracy Heading South, on H-Pol, H-Net listserv, July 2002. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=6546
Public Presentations
“Methodism in Spartanburg” delivered at the centennial of Beaumont United Methodist Church, October 2010.
“Celebrating Our Connection” homecoming address delivered at Main Street United Methodist Church, Columbia, SC, October 2009.
“Celebrating Our Connection” historical address delivered at St. Paul UMC, Saluda, SC, September 2009
“Methodism in Spartanburg” address before the South Carolina United Methodist Annual Conference Historical Society, February 9, 2008, in Spartanburg, SC.
“Spartanburg’s Economic History” talk delivered to the Spartanburg Kiwanis Club, Spartanburg, SC, January 10, 2008.
“Celebrating The Connection” sesquicentennial address delivered at St. John’s United Methodist Church, Rock Hill, SC, September 17, 2006.
Public Commentaries
“McNair helped build state’s global connections,” with Lucas McMillan, The State (Columbia, SC) Nov. 20, 2007.
Memberships
Southern Historical Association Society of American Archivists
South Carolina Historical Association South Carolina Archival Association
Phi Alpha Theta South Caroliniana Society
Spartanburg County Historical Association
Research
My research interests center on twentieth century American, South Carolina, and southern history. Currently, my focus is on the politics of economic development in the Palmetto State in the years 1938 to 1962. Within the area of South Carolina history, I am most interested in economic development, the civil rights revolution, two-party political competition, and the growth of a suburban middle class. I am also interested in the revolutionary and early national era, particularly in the areas of political culture and constitutional development.
Service
Co-editor and book review editor, H-SC, H-Net listserv on South Carolina history and culture, 2006-2016.
Judge, George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award, South Carolina Historical Society, 2002 and 2004.
Commission on Archives and History, South Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. I serve as an ex-officio member.
South Carolina United Methodist Advocate Board of Trustees, 2012-present.
City of Spartanburg Planning Commission, 2016-present
City of Spartanburg Board of Architectural Design and Historic Review, 2010-2016, chair 2014-2016.
Spartanburg County Historical Association, member, Board of Directors, 2000-2003. I chaired the newsletter committee and edited the newsletter.