Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

Qualifications

• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania - History (2009)
• M.A., Northwestern University - History (2003)
• M.A., University of Western Ontario - Atlantic History (2001)
• B.A., University of Western Ontario - Honours History/Literature (2000)

Research Clusters

• American Studies and History

Discipline Areas

• American History, 17th to 20th Centuries
• History of the American South, 17th to 20th Centuries
• History of Slavery & Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 17th to 19th Centuries

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• Pledges of Allegiance: Emancipation, Politics & State Formation in Mississippi between Slavery and Redemption
• Deference in a Democratic Nation: Popular Politics in the United States

Journal Articles

• “Between Slavery and Citizenship: African American Subjecthood in Civil War Mississippi,” article under consideration with the Journal of Southern History.
• “Schools of Citizenship: The Confederate State and the Southern Soldier,” article in revision, to be submitted to the Journal of the Civil War Era.

Book Chapters

• “‘It Looks Much Like Abandoned Land’: Property & Political Allegiance in Reconstruction Mississippi,” in Rethinking Reconstruction, Brian Kelly, Susan O’Donovan and Bruce Baker eds. (Gainesville FL: University Press of Florida, 2011).

Other Publications

• “Overseers,” in Edward E. Baptist ed., Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas (New York: Facts on File, 2011).
• “Mississippi,” in Edward E. Baptist ed., Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas (New York: Facts on File, 2011).
• “U.S. Civil War,” in Edward E. Baptist ed., Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas (New York: Facts on File, 2011).
• “Internal Slave Trade and Antislavery,” in Peter Hinks and John McKivigan eds., Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, 2 vols. (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), 1: 372-73.
• “Secession Crisis and Abolitionists,” in Peter Hinks and John McKivigan eds., Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, 2 vols. (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), 2: 604-06.
• “Segregation and Disfranchisement in the American South,” in Peter Hinks and John McKivigan eds., Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, 2 vols. (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), 2: 608-10.
• Review of The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860, by Eileen Ka-May Cheng, in American Nineteenth Century History, vol. 11, no. 3 (2010): 361-62.

Grants Received

• Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, $24,000 (USD)(2008-2009)
• Graduate Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, $22,000 (USD) (2007-2008)
• Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, $22,000 (USD) plus tuition p/a (2003-2007)
• Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University, $24,000 (USD) plus tuition (2002-2003)
• Graduate Fellowship, University of Western Ontario, $18,600 (CDN) plus tuition (2000-2001)
• Captain Richard A. Gondos Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, $2,000 (USD) (2006)
• Annenberg Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, $4,000 (USD) (2005-2007)