Jordan Sanders

MA Student

Contact
Department of History
Email: jtsndrs@clemson.edu

Education
BA, Clemson University (2025)

Research Interests
U.S. History 1877-1975; African-American; Historiography/Historical Theory and Method; Race and Ethnicity; Slavery; Social Movements

Jordan Sanders is a first-year M.A. student in History at Clemson University. He also previously earned his bachelor's degree in History from Clemson University in Spring 2025, where he worked as a student stacks assistant at Robert Muldrow Cooper Library. Now, he works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for an undergraduate course. His research interests are focused on the history of American race relations post-Reconstruction and up to the middle of the 20th century. Specifically, since he was born and raised in Georgia and later moved to South Carolina, his research will be concentrated on those two states and the surrounding regions in the South. Accordingly, the historiography of 19th and 20th century American race relations will also be emphasized in his research, as well as making some new contributions to the field. The potential title of his thesis will be "An Examination of Jim Crow Segregation and the Southern Civil Rights Movement in Georgia and South Carolina post-Reconstruction through the mid-20th Century," which will explore how the development of segregation and the CRM in Georgia and South Carolina both differed from and paralleled the rest of the country.