Faculty and Staff Profile

John M. Coggeshall

Educational Background

Ph.D. Anthropology
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale 1984

M.A. Behavioral Science
Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville 1978

B.A. Anthropology
Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville 1975

Courses Taught

Introduction to Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
North American Indian Cultures
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Theories in Anthropology

Profile

I have recently published a book entitled "Something in these hills: the culture of family land in southern Appalachia" (U North Carolina Press, 2022) about the symbolic meaning of land for families in Upstate SC. I have also published a second book, an oral history of "Liberia, South Carolina," about an enclave community in upper Pickens County founded by freed slaves in 1865 (UNC Press, 2018). I am currently working on a third book, "A Slow Life But a Good Life," a collection of stories from people in Upstate SC. It is in press with Clemson University Press.

Research Interests

U.S. regional and ethnic cultures. Specific research interests include the cultural history of the SC mountains, traditional cultures in the Midwest and Carolinas, heritage tourism, gated communities, ethical issues in ethnographic research, and undergraduate pedagogy.

Research Publications

“Where the Blue Ridge Yawns its Greatness,” Jocassee Journal, Spring/Summer 2023, pp. 6-7.

"Something in these hills: the culture of family land in southern Appalachia" (UNC Press, 2022)

Fasolino, Tracy (Principal Investigator), J. M. Coggeshall, Michelle Smith, Janice Lanham, Lori Pindar, Eunice Lehmacher, Bonnie Treado, William C McCoy
Project SUNDAYS: Engaging Rural African American Religious and Spiritual Leaders on Advance Care Planning, Hillman Foundation, 2021- current. $50,000.

“Liberia, South Carolina: an African American Community in the South Carolina Mountains,” South Carolina Heritage Corridor Magazine, Winter 2019, pp. 59-65.

"Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community" (UNC Press, 2018)

"'Ladies' Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror," reprinted in Explorations in Cultural Anthropology, edited by C. Boyd and L. E. Lassiter, pp. 243-250 (Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2011).

"Menace and Majesty: The Jocassee Gorges Region of Upper South Carolina," in Museums and Memory," ed. by M. W. Huber, pp. 179-191 (Knoxville: Newfound Press, University of Tennessee, 2011).

Honors and Awards

Erasmus Scholar, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Fall Semester 2019

Trevillian Professorship, College of Business and Behavioral Science (2016)

The Thomas Green Clemson Award for Excellence (2010)

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