Thomas J. Kuehn
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1977
Field: Renaissance Italy
Phone: (864) 656-5361
Office: 126A Hardin Hall
Email: tjkuehn@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~tjkuehn/
Professor Kuehn, who came to Clemson in 1981, is
the department chair. He teaches courses in the Renaissance, the
Reformation, and Medieval History, and is a specialist in the legal and
social culture of Renaissance Italy. His books include Illegitimacy in
Renaissance Florence (2002), Law, Family, and Women (1991), and an
edited collection, Time, Space, and Women’s Lives in Early Modern
Europe (2001).
In 2003, Professor Kuehn was awarded with a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which he used to study repudiated inheritances in Renaissance Florence. His most recent book is Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (2008), which was recently awarded the American Historical Association annual "Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize" for the best work in any epoch of Italian history, Italian cultural history, or Italian-American relations.
Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (2008).
Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence (2002).
Time, Space and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe (2001).
A Renaissance of Conflicts: Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain (2004).
Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy ( 1991).
Emancipation in Late Medieval Florence (1982).
Paul Christopher Anderson
Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 1998
Field: American South
Phone: (864) 656-5362
Office: 14 Hardin Hall
Email: pcander@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~pcander/
Before coming to Clemson in 2000, Professor Anderson taught at the
University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He
teaches courses in nineteenth century U.S. history, including classes
on the South to 1865 and the Civil War era.
For Dr. Anderson’s course syllabi, as well as other useful resources, please visit his webpage at http://people.clemson.edu/~pcander/.
Selected Publications
Blood Image: Turner Ashby and the Civil War in the Southern Mind (2002).
Robert E. Lee: Legendary Commander of the Confederacy (2003).
George Armstrong Custer: The Indian Wars and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2004).
Rod Andrew Jr.
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1997
Field: American South
Phone: (864) 656-6706
Office: 12 Hardin Hall
Email: jrandre@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~jrandre/
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Professor Andrew is a specialist in Southern history. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in both the antebellum and new South periods, with particular emphasis on the New South. Dr. Andrew's first book, Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition (2001), explains the rise of military schools in the antebellum South and their continuing appeal after the Civil War. He recently completed the biography Wade
Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer. Hampton was a Confederate general, South Carolina governor and senator, and symbol of the "Lost Cause." For this biography, he was awarded the
2009 Mary Lawton Hodges Prize in
Southern Studies. He is also a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and a field historian with the Marine Corps History Division.
Selected Publications
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (2008).
Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915 (2001).
"Soldiers, Christians, and Patriots: The ‘Lost Cause’ and Southern Military Schools", 1865-1915, Journal of Southern History 64 (1998).
Stephanie L. Barczewski
Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
Field: Modern Britain
Phone: (864) 656-5377
Office: B28 Hardin Hall
Email: sbarcze@clemson.edu
A specialist in modern British history, Dr. Barczewski has been at Clemson since 1996. Her most recent book, Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton and the Changing Face of Heroism, was published by Continuum in December 2007; it examines the ways in which the changing reputations of the British Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton have been impacted by broader cultural changes in Britain and the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Dr. Barczewski's previous publications include Titanic: A Night Remembered (Hambledon and London/Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood (Oxford University Press, 2000), as well as numerous articles in academic journals. Dr. Barczewski has been awarded the Gentry Award, Clemson's highest honor for teaching in the humanities, as well as a Faculty Award of Distinction for student mentoring from the Clemson National Scholars Program.
Dr. Barczewski's current research will examine the historical dimensions of globalization, through an exploration of the visible remnants of Britain’s global history that are to be found throughout the British Isles and the former empire. By taking this global perspective, she hopes to overcome some of the parochial and nationalistic tendencies that have traditionally coloured the writing of European – and particularly British – history. These tendencies have led to the creation of national narratives with which we are all familiar and which retain considerable validity, but it is time to provide parallel narratives acknowledging that human beings have long been citizens of the wider world as well as of individual countries. Altars dedicated to Persian gods in a Roman shrine along Hadrian’s Wall; plasterwork native Americans on the ceiling of an Elizabethan country house; a stone tub tucked behind a shop in rural Dorset in which flax was soaked to make ropes for ships that sailed to all corners of the globe -- all are indications that the pre-twentieth-century British world was not the insular place that we often imagine it to be. Instead, it was a world strongly influenced by a variety of global forces, just as it is today.
Selected Publications
Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton and the Changing Face of Heroism (Continuum, 2007).
Titanic: A Night Remembered (Palgrave Macmillan, (2004).
Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood (Oxford, 2000).
Abel A. Bartley
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1994
Field: African-American Studies
Phone: (864) 656-5372
Office: 108 Hardin Hall
Email: abartly@clemson.edu
Professor Bartley, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, is the director of the Pan-African Studies program. He came to Clemson in 2004 from the University of Akron, where he taught for ten years and helped build a vibrant Pan-African studies program. He is also the author of several essays on race, politics, and the Civil Rights movement. Professor Bartley's most recent book, "Keeping the Faith" explores race, politics, and social development in Jacksonville between 1940 and 1970.
Selected Publications
Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970 (2000).
Akron(Black America Series: Ohio)(2004).
Amit Bein
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006
Field: Middle East, Ottoman Empire
Phone: (864) 656-5375
Office: 202 Hardin Hall
Email: abein@clemson.edu
Professor Bein, an expert on the Ottoman Empire, teaches courses on the history of the Middle East. His dissertation, “The Ulema, Their Institutions, and Politics in the late Ottoman Empire (1876-1924),” focuses on the changes in the political outlook and educational institutions of the Ottoman religious establishment during the closing years of the empire.
Selected Publications
“The Ulama and Political Activism in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Career of Şeyhülislam Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869-1954),” in Meir Hatina, ed., Guardians of Faith in Modern Times: Ulama in the Middle East (2008), pp. 67-90.
“The Istanbul Earthquake of 1894 and Science in the Late Ottoman Empire,”Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44 vi (2008), pp. 909-924.
“A ‘Young Turk’ Islamic Intellectual: Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi and the Diverse Intellectual Legacies of the Late Ottoman Empire,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 39 iv (2007), pp. 607-625.
“Politics, Military Conscription, and Religious Education in The Late Ottoman Empire,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38 ii (2006), pp. 283-301.
James M. Burns
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
Field: African History and the social history of film
Phone: (864) 656-5359
Office: 120 Hardin Hall
Email: burnsj@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~burnsj/
Professor Burns, the 2005 winner of the Gentry Award for
outstanding teaching, came to Clemson in 1999. He is a specialist in African
history and the social history of film. Dr. Burns' first book, Flickering
Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe, was named by Choice magazine
as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002. He is the co-author with
Robert O. Collins of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa, which was published by
Cambridge University Press in 2007. He is currently working on a book about the
history of cinema-going in the British Empire before the Second World War. For
Dr. Burns' course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please
visit his webpage at http://www.clemson.edu/~burnsj/.
Selected Publications
‘Cape Town Bioscope Culture and The Rose of Rhodesia' in Screening the past Issue 25: Special
Issue: Colonial Africa on the Silent Screen: Recovering The Rose of Rhodesia
(September 2009)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/25/rose-of-rhodesia/rose-of-rhodesia.html
Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe (Ohio University Press, 2002).
"Biopics and Politics: The Making and Unmaking of the Rhodes Films" Biography: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Winter 2000).
"Watching Africans Watch Movies: Theories of Spectatorship in British Colonial Africa,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (June 2000).
Problems in Modern African Studies (1997). Co-editor.
Historical Problems of Imperial Africa (1994). Co-editor.
Problems in African History (1992). Co-editor
Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
Ph.D., Duke University, 1975
Field: Ancient Greece and Rome, Women, Alexander the Great
Phone: (864) 656-2856
Office: 110 Hardin Hall
Email: elizab@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~elizab/carneyhome.html
Professor Carney is the Department’s coordinator of undergraduate advising. She teaches courses in the Ancient world, with a special interest in Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic period, and women. She has written dozens of essays on topics as diverse as gender and naming practices, Ptolemaic Egypt, and women and military leadership. Her most recent book, Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (2000), examines the lives of royal mothers, wives, and daughters. She is currently finishing up a biography of Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great. Prof. Carney has taught at Clemson since 1973.
For Dr. Carney’s course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please visit her webpage at http://people.clemson.edu/~elizab/carneyhome.html
Selected Publications
Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (Univ. of Oklahoma, 2000).
"The Emergence of a Title for Royal Women in the Hellenistic Period," in Women's History and Ancient History (North Carolina, 1991).
"The Sisters of Alexander the Great: Royal Relics," in Historia, 1985.
Caroline Dunn
Ph.D. Fordham University, 2007
Field: Medieval Europe, Britain
Phone: (864) 656-6429
Office: B08 Hardin Hall
Email: cdunn@clemson.edu
Caroline Dunn specializes in the history of medieval Britain. She focuses on the intersection between social and legal history, with a particular interest in the marriage laws and spousal relationships that were explored in her Fordham University dissertation “Damsels in Distress or Partners and Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England." Additional interests include daily life in urban Europe, medieval conquest and colonization, and the British aristocracy.
Selected Publications
“Contracting Marriage in York and Paris.” In Medieval Towns: A Reader. Edited by Maryanne Kowaleski, 187-90 (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2006).
From Abduction to Criminal Conversation: Civil Actions for Adultery in Medieval and Early Modern England, to be delivered at the Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, San Francisco (November, 2007).
Abducted Wives and Adulterous Wives in the Common Law Courts of Later Medieval England, delivered at a Conference on “Regional Variations of Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1650,” University of Helsinki (August 2006).
H. Roger Grant
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1970
Field: Populist-Progressive Era, Railroads
Phone: (864) 656-5371
Office: 226 Hardin Hall
Email: ggrant@clemson.edu
H. Roger Grant came to Clemson in 1996 from The University of Akron, where he had been teaching since 1970. A specialist in U.S. history, and especially the Populist-Progressive era, he is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on transportation history and American railroads. He has written or edited 27 books; his most recent are Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution (2008); Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad (2006); and The Railroad: The Life Story of a Technology (2005).
Twice recognized by Clemson with awards for excellence in research, and more recently as the university's Centennial Professor, Grant was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters by his undergraduate alma mater, Simpson College, in 2003. During the spring semester 2005, Grant served as the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He was awarded the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professorship in 2006. His current book project is Railroads and the American People. His next book, Twilight Rails: The Final Era of Railroad Building in the Midwest, will be published in Spring 2010 by the University of Minnesota Press.
Selected Publications
Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution (2008).
Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia and Florida Railroad (2006).
The Railroad: The Life Story of a Technology (2005).
Follow the Flag: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company (2004).
Getting Around: Exploring Transportation History (2003).
Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr. (2000).
Ohio on the Move: Transportation in the Buckeye State (2000).
The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway (1996).
Erie Lackawanna: Death of An American Railroad (1994).
Living in the Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station (1993).
Brownie the Boomer: The Life of Charles P. Brown, An American Railroader (1991).
Spirit Fruit: A Gentle Utopia (1988).
The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company (1984).
Self-Help in the 1890s Depression (1983).
Insurance Reform: Consumer Action in the Progressive Era (1979).
Joanna L. Grisinger
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005
J.D., University of Chicago, 1998
Field: United States Legal History
Phone: (864) 656-1554
Office: 112 Hardin Hall
Email: jgrisin@clemson.edu
Professor Grisinger is the Department's Pre-Law Adviser. At Clemson, she teaches courses in U.S. legal history; she also has taught LSAT Review courses. Her dissertation, “Reforming the State: Reorganization and the Federal Government, 1937-1964,” focuses on the rise of adminstrative law during a key period of federal expansion in the 20th century. Professor Grisinger has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Miller Center of Public Affairs, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the Harry S. Truman Library, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
Dr. Grisinger also maintains a page of resources for law school applicants, which can be linked here.
Selected Publications
“Reorganizing Homeland Security: A Historical Perspective,” with Brian Balogh, Miller Center Report vol. 19 no. 1 (Winter 2003).
“Making Democracy Work: A Brief History of Twentieth Century Executive Reorganization,” with Brian Balogh and Philip Zelikow, Miller Center of Public Affairs Working Paper (July 2002).
Paul Alan Grubb
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969
Field: Modern France, World War I, Intellectual
Phone: (864) 656-5360
Office: 118 Hardin Hall
Email: agrub@clemson.edu
Alan Grubb came to Clemson in 1967. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in European intellectual history, as well as Modern France, World War I, and The Age of Absolutism. His first book, The Politics of Pessimism: Albert de Broglie and Conservative Politics in the Early Third Republic, appeared in 1996. Dr. Grubb also has a keen interest in food history. His essay “House and Home in the Victorian South: The Cookbook as Guide,” is often cited as an exemplary way to explain a culture by its food practices; his current work, The Kitchen War, will expand that approach into World War II. He is a past president of the Faculty Senate, and has won numerous awards for teaching and service, including the Frank A. Burtner Advising Award and, in 2003, the AAH Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Selected Publications
The Politics of Pessimism: Albert de Broglie and Conservative Politics in the Early Third Republic (Delaware, 1996).
"House and Home in the Victorian South: The Cookbook as Guide," in In Joy and In Sorrow (Oxford, 1991).
Lance Howard
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1994
Field: Geography
Phone: (864) 656-6429
Office: 8 Hardin Hall
Email: lhoward@clemson.edu
Lance Howard teaches introductory geography, as well as courses in cultural, urban, and historical geography. He is a specialist in the interplay between local communities and regional and global systems, as well as sustainable development. Dr. Howard, who has done field work in both Mexico and Brazil, has written and presented papers on such diverse topics as the naturalization of the pepper tree and photographic representation and its importance to geography. He has also taught at Anderson College, Tri-County Technical College, and the University of California-Los Angeles.
Selected Publications
"The Introduction and Naturalization of Schinus molle (pepper tree) in Riverside, California,” Landscape and Urban Planning, 18: 77-95, 1989.
"Plant Colonization on an Abandoned, Elevated Highway in New York City,” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 47: 89-104, 1985.
"Biogeography and Prehistory of Shrublands,” in Johannes J. Devries, ed., Shrublands in California: Literature Review and Research Needed for Management, Contribution No.191 (Davis, CA: California Water Resources Center) pp. 8-24, 1985.
James B. Jeffries
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
Field: Native Americans, Colonial U.S.
Phone: (864) 656-0521
Office: 28 Hardin Hall
Email: jjeffri@clemson.edu
Professor Jeffries is a specialist in Native American history and American Colonial History. His interests center on the early religious encounters between Native Americans and Europeans.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His dissertation, "Denying Religion: French and Native American Spiritual Crossroads in Seventeenth-Century New France," examines early French claims that the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region did not possess religion. By exposing the non-theological grounding of native customs, the project reveals a Christian bias entailed in European definitions of religion—a bias, he contends, that is propagated in much of the current scholarship on the natives of New France. He is a recipient of the President’s Dissertation fellowship at the University of California. He is also a former fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University and the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Before coming to Clemson in 2006, he taught at Colgate University for three years in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Selected Publications
“Denying Religion: Native Americans and French Missionaries in Early New France.” In Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church: Visual Culture, Missionization, and Appropriation, edited by Kate J. Martin. Burlington: Ashgate Press, 2009.
“Obscure Revelations/Seductive Coverings: French and Native American Divination Practices in Early New France.” Presented for the panel (also organized by Jeffries), Dark Frontiers: Native and European Dream Encounters in Early America, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, June 2009.
“Imposing Religion: Missionary Roots of the Comparative Study of Religion.” Presented for the Indigenous Religious Traditions Group, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2008.
Religious Borderlands: French and Native American Spiritual Crossroads in Seventeenth-Century New France. (book manuscript in preparation)
Pamela E. Mack
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1983
Field: Science and Technology, Space Program, Women
Phone: (864) 656-5356
Office: 6 Hardin Hall
Email: pammack@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~pammack/
Professor Mack is a specialist in the history of technology and science, but she has also done work in public history and historic preservation. She teaches History 322 and 323, the bookend courses in the history of technology, as well as courses on the Space Program and American Health Care. Dr. Mack is also very involved in the Calhoun Honors Program, which honored her in 2001 with the D.W. Bradbury Award for her role in advising and mentoring honors students. Her book projects include Viewing the Earth: The Social Construction of the Landsat Satellite System (1991), and a forthcoming study of the U.S. Forest Service.
For Dr. Mack’s course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please visit her webpage at http://www.clemson.edu/~pammack/. For her work as coordinator of Science and Technology in Society at Clemson see http://www.clemson.edu/sts/.
Selected Publications
“What Difference Has Feminism Made to Engineering in the Twentieth Century” in Science, Medicine and Technology: The Difference Feminism Has Made edited by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Book coverPamela E. Mack and Gail Delicio, “The Authority of Experience: Assessing the Use of Information Technology in the Classroom” Journal of Electronic Publishing 6 (Sept. 2000) www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/mack.html.
Editor, From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA/NASA Collier Trophy Research Project.
Winners NASA SP-4219 (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1998).
Viewing the Earth: The Social Construction of the Landsat Satellite System (M.I.T., 1991).
Steven G. Marks
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988
Field: Modern Russia
Phone: (864) 656-5355
Office: 106 Hardin Hall
Email: msteven@clemson.edu
Professor Marks is a specialist in Russian history, and teaches courses in that area as well as economic and cultural history. He has received awards for both teaching and research, among them the Alumni Distinguished Professorship, the Gentry Award for Teaching in the Humanities, and the AAH Dean’s Award for Research Accomplishments. His most recent book, How Russia Shaped the Modern World (2003), explores the influences of Russian ideas on Western and world culture; his first book, Road to Power (1991), was a study of the Trans-Siberian railroad. He came to Clemson in 1988.
Selected Publications
How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism (Princeton Univ. Press, 2003).
Road to Power: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia (Cornell Univ. Press, 1991).
“The Historical Context: Russia from 800 to 1992,” in Understanding Contemporary Russia (2009).
The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, vol. II—Asian Contributors (2006) (co-editor).
"Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!": The War and the Rise of Nationalism in British Egypt and India," in The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, vol. I (2005).
Donald M. McKale
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1970
Class of '39 Award for Excellence (2007)
Field: Modern Germany, Holocaust
Phone: (864) 656-5367
Office: 106 Hardin Hall
Email: mckaled@clemson.edu
Professor McKale has been Class of '41 Memorial Professor of the Humanities since 1988. He is recognized as one of the leading specialists in the Holocaust and Modern Germany, and his courses on those topics, as well as World War II in Europe, are university favorites. His newest book, Hitler’s Shadow War (2002), is a study of the inextricable connection between German war goals and the Holocaust; it was a Main Selection of the History Book Club, as well as a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Traditions. His other books include Hitler: The Survival Myth (1981; 2001), and War by Revolution (1998), which won the Charles Smith Award from European Section of Southern Historical Association. He has taught at Clemson since 1979.
Selected Publications
Hitler’s Shadow War: The Holocaust and World War II (Cooper Square Press, 2002; selection of History Book Club, Book of the Month Club, and Traditions Book Club).
Hitler: The Survival Myth (Stein and Day, 1981; updated ed., Cooper Square Press, 2001).
War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I (Kent State, 1998; received Charles Smith Award, 1999-2000, from European Section of Southern Historical Association).
Editor, Tradition: A History of the Presidency of Clemson University (Mercer, 1988; 2nd ed. with J.V. Reel Jr., 1998).
Editor, Rewriting History: The Original and Revised World War II Diaries of Curt Pruefer (Kent State, 1988).
Curt Pruefer: German Diplomat from the Kaiser to Hitler (Kent State, 1987)
The Swastika Outside Germany (Kent State, 1977).
The Nazi Party Courts (Kansas, 1974).
James A. Miller
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1981
Field: Cultural Geography, Middle East, Africa
Phone: (864) 656-1640
Office: 204 Hardin Hall
Email: miller3@clemson.edu
Professor Miller has taught geography at Clemson since 1980. He is a specialist in the peoples and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Dr. Miller teaches courses in World Regional Geography, Political Geography, and the Geography of the Middle East and North Africa, among others. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he has published Imlil: A Moroccan Mountain Community in Change (1984), the geography textbook World Regional Geography: A Question of Place (1989); his current work, Sijilmasa: The Last Civilized Place, is under contract with the University of Texas Press. Professor Miller, who has also been a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State and served in the Congo, will be on leave 2003-2006 while he serves as Director of the Center for Studies of the Maghrib (Centre des Etudes Maghrebines) in Tunis.
Dr. Miller directs the undergraduate minor in geography. See his images of Morocco on the GeoImages project at: geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/Miller/millerone.html.
You may also visit Professor Miller's Kuba art site by clicking on the link.
Selected Publications
Co-author, World Regional Geography (Wiley, 1989).
Imlil: A Moroccan Mountain Community in Change (Westview, 1984).
Edwin E. Moïse
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1977
Field: Vietnam, China, Military
Phone: (864) 656-5369
Office: 102 Hardin Hall
Email: eemoise@clemson.edu
Website: http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/index.htm
Professor Moïse served two years in the U.S. Peace Corps and taught at Appalachian State and the University of Detroit before coming to Clemson in 1979. He teaches courses in Modern China, Modern Japan, and the Vietnam War, as well as a course in Modern Military History. His books include Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War (2001), and Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (1996). His electronic bibliography of the Vietnam War, accessible at his webpage, is a great resource for anyone interested in the topic. In 2002, Dr. Moise was honored with two major university awards: the Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award, and the Provost’s Award for Scholarly Achievement.
More information about Dr. Moise, including his curriculum vitae and other useful resources, is available on his personal webpage at the link noted above.
Selected Publications
Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (North Carolina, 1996).
Modern China: A History (Longman, 1986, 1994).
Land Reform in China and North Vietnam (North Carolina, 1983).
Rachel A. Moore
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Field: Latin America, Mexico
Phone: (864) 656-7570
Office: 18 Hardin Hall
Email: rchico@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~rchico/
Professor Moore is a specialist in the history of Mexico. Her interests include the postal system in Mexico, print culture, the impact of infrastructure on society, and the Atlantic world.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was named a Bancroft Library Fellow. Her first book, Transient Loyalties: the Atlantic World and the Public Sphere in nineteenth-century Veracruz (in revisions with University of Arizona Press), explored the symbiotic yet conflicted relationships that bound the inland town of Jalapa and and the port of Veracruz to the larger Atlantic world and considered the impact these affiliations had on the formation of a Mexican identity. Currently she is at work on a history of postal workers in Mexico. For this work, she has received a fellowship from the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. She has presented her work on this project at the Postal History Symposium, held in October 2009. Her presentation, titled "From the Pulpit to the Post: Anti-clericalism and Communication in Orizaba, Mexico, 1857-1867," will be published by Smithsonian University Press in a collection of essays to be released in 2010.
Professor Moore has received both Clemson University's Gentry Award for Teaching Excellence (2008-2009) and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007-2008). Her current work in the classroom includes classes on Colonial Latin America, Modern South America as well as a historical methodology class examining the experiences of American soldiers serving in the U.S.-Mexican War (1847-1848).
Selected Publications
“The City in Your Pocket: Printed Guides during Times of Turmoil in Mexico, 1815-1869,” delivered at 2005 Conference of the American Printing History Association.
“Cavalry, Cads and Convicts: The Restless Residents of Jalapa, Mexico, 1812-1835,” delivered as Bancroft Fellow Lecture, February 2005.
David Nicholas
Ph.D., Brown, 1967
Email: nichold@clemson.edu
Dr. Nicholas retired in 2006 as Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History. He came to Clemson in 1989 from the University of Nebraska, where he taught for 22 years. Professor Nicholas is the author or editor of sixteen books and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. At Clemson Dr. Nicholas taught courses in Medieval History, The Era of the Hundred Years War, pre-modern urbanization, the European family, and the History of England to 1688.
For Dr. Nicholas' curriculum vitae, click here.
Selected Publications
The Northern Lands. Germanic Europe, c. 1270-c.1500 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Urban Europe, 1100-1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
The Transformation of Europe, 1300-1600 (London: Edward Arnold, 1999).
The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century (London: Longman, 1997).
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The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500 (London: Longman, 1997).
Trade, Urbanization and the Family: Studies in the History of Medieval Flanders (Variorum, 1996).
The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government and Thought in Europe, 312-1500 (Longman, 1992).
Medieval Flanders (Longman, 1992).
The van Arteveldes of Ghent: The Varieties of Vendetta and the Hero in History (Cornell, 1988).
The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent in the Age of the Arteveldes, 1302-1390 (Nebraska, 1987).
The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in 14th-Century Ghent (Nebraska: 1985).
Town and Countryside: Social, Economic and Political Tensions in 14th-Century Flanders (Bruges, 1971).
Richard L. Saunders Jr.
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1971
Field: 20th-Century U.S., Economic, Railroads
Phone: (864) 656-5373
Office: 116 Hardin Hall
Email: airedal@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~airedal/
Professor Saunders in one of the Department’s Alumni Master Teachers; he has also won the Fluor–Daniel Excellence in Teaching Award. His courses, all university favorites, focus on 20th-century American history: The United States in the Depression and World War II, The United States, 1945-1975, and American Economic Development. An expert in railroad history, Professor Saunders’s recent books include Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970 (2001), which won the George M. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award. He has taught at Clemson since 1969.
For Dr. Saunders’s course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please visit his webpage at http://www.clemson.edu/~airedal/.
Selected Publications
Merging Lines: American Railroads 1900-1970 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2001).
Main Lines: The Rebirth of the American Railroads, 1970-2002 (2003).
The Birth of the American Railroad, 1970-2000 (2001).
The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of Conrail (1978).
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Megan Taylor Shockley
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2000
Field: Women, U.S. Social
Phone: (864) 656-4427
Office: 104 Hardin Hall
Email: mshockl@clemson.edu
Professor Shockley came to Clemson in 2003 from Longwood University in Virginia, where she taught U.S. history, directed the Women’s Studies Program, and won numerous campus awards for teaching and leadership. At Clemson she teaches courses in U.S. Social History and women’s history. She is a specialist in gender, labor, and particularly African-American women; her new book, “We, Too, Are Americans: African-American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954 (2003), explores and compares the relationships between labor, gender, and civil rights.
Selected Publications
We, Too, Are Americans: African-American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954 (University of Illinois Press, 2003).
Michael S. Silvestri
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1998
Field: British Empire
Phone: (864) 656-5377
Office: 122 Hardin Hall
Email: msilves@clemson.edu
Dr. Silvestri, an expert on the British empire, teaches courses in English history, as well as Honors seminars. His publications include two essays on terrorism in Bengal: "The 'Sinn Fein of India': Irish Nationalism and the Policing of Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal, 1905-1939,” and “'An Irishman is Specially Suited to be a Policeman': Sir Charles Tegart and Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal."
Selected Publications
“The Bomb, Bhadralok, Bhagavad Gita and Dan Breen: Terrorism in Bengal and Its Relation to the European Experience,” Terrorism and Political Violence 21:1 (Winter 2009), pp. 1-27.
“’315 Million of India with Ireland to the Last’: Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America,” in Tadhg Foley and Maureen O’Connor, eds., Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture, Empire (2006), pp. 244-55.
“The Thrill of ‘Simply Dressing Up’: The Indian Police, Disguise, and Intelligence Work in the British Raj.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (August, 2001).
“The ‘Sinn Fein of India’: Irish Nationalism and the Policing of Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal, 1905-1939,” Journal of British Studies (October, 2000).
“‘An Irishman is Specially Suited to be a Policeman’: Sir Charles Tegart and Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal,” History-Ireland (Winter 2000).
Christa A. Smith
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 20008
Field: Geography, Preservation
Phone: (864) 656-6707
Office: 10 Hardin Hall
Email: casmith@clemson.edu
Professor Smith, a specialist in Appalachia and Urban Geography, teaches a variety of geography courses in the department, including World Regional Geography, Economic Geography, and Geography of the American South. She also teaches Introduction to Historic Preservation. Before coming to Clemson in 2000, she taught at Marshall University in West Virginia, where she was named Geography Teacher of the Year in 1999. She is the author of numerous essays and grants, and several of her preservation projects have been recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Her current book project, Affordable Housing for All, explores the impact of Habitat for Humanity.
Selected Publications
"Predicting Success or Failure on Main Street: Urban Revitalization and the Kentucky Main Street Program, 1979-1999." Southeastern Geographer, November 2002.
"Flood of Emotions: Flood Hazard Perception and Adjustment in Pocahontas County, WV: 1812-1985." Proceedings of the Conference on Appalachian Geography, Manzo, J., ed. Athens, WV, 1992.