Candy Boatwright

M.A. Student

Contact
Department of History
Email: cboatw2@clemson.edu

Education
BA, Bob Jones University (2005)

Research Interests
U.S. History; U.S. South; Local and public history

I am in the Master’s program studying South Carolina history, specifically the early colonial to post-Revolutionary era in the Upstate. My thesis focuses on the shifting of political and economic power away from Charleston with the eventual expansion of the plantation system across the state partially through tax-payer and federally funded infrastructure development. I am interested in local and public history and how the preservation of historic memory sites and monuments impact the public understanding of a place’s past. My graduate assistantship research involves the families interred at Woodland Cemetery and their contribution to Clemson University’s past and am also able to help at Greenville County’s Historical Society with their collections and public outreach.