Associate Professor of History and African American Studies

Virtual Office Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Thursday, schedule online https://www.calendar.com/garrett-scott/

Longstreet Hall 214

(662) 915-5977 messages

smgscott@olemiss.edu

Twitter: @EbonRebel, #BankingOnFreedom

Facebook and Instagram: @BankingOnFreedom

Education:

Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin

Teaching and Research Interests:

20th-century United States, African American, Women’s History, Capitalism Studies, Business History, Southern History

Biography:

Shennette Garrett-Scott is a historian of gender, race, and capitalism. Her award-winning first book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) is the first full-length history of finance capitalism that centers black women and the banking institutions and networks they built from the eve of the Civil War to the Great Depression.

Selected Publications:

Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019)

Awards:

Winner, Association of Black Women Historians 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Prize for Best Book in Black Women’s History

Shortlisted, Hagley Museum & Library and the Business History Conference 2020 Hagley Prize for Best Book in Business History

Winner, Southern Historical Association 2020 Bennett H. Wall Award for Best Book in Southern Business and Economic History

Winner, Organization of American Historians 2020 Darlene Clark Hine Award for Best Book in African American Women’s and Gender History

With Beth Kruse, Rhondalyn Peairs, and Jodi Skipper, “Remembering Ida, Ida Remembering: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Black Political Culture in Reconstruction-Era Mississippi,” Southern Cultures (forthcoming)

With Dominique Scott, “This Ain’t Yo’ Mama’s Revolution—Or Maybe It Is: #TakeDownTheFlag and the New Student Activism,” in Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons, eds. Stephanie Y. Evans, Andrea D. Domingue, and Tania D. Mitchell (SUNY Press, 2019)

 With Caleb W Lugar, Milorad M. Novicevic, Ifeoluwa Tobi Popoola, John H Humphreys, and Albert J Mills, “The Historic Emergence of Intersectional Leadership: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke,” Leadership (Aug., 2019): 1-21

“‘A Commercial Emancipation’ for the Negro: Financing Black Business in the 1920s,” Financial History Magazine (Summer 2019)

“‘To Do a Work that Would Be Very Far Reaching’: Minnie Geddings Cox, the Mississippi Life Insurance Company, and the Challenges of Black Women’s Business Leadership in the Early Twentieth-Century United States,” Enterprise and Society (Sept., 2016): 473–514

With Juliet E. K. Walker, “Introduction,” Special Issue on African Americans and Business: Race, Capitalism, and Power, Guest Editors Juliet E. K. Walker and Shennette Garrett-Scott, Journal of African American History 101, no. 4 (Fall, 2016), 395-406

“‘The Hope of the South’: The New Century Cotton Mill of Dallas, Texas, and the Business of Race in the New South, 1902–1907,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 116, No. 2 (Oct., 2012): 138-66

* Winner: 2012 Texas State Historical Association Carroll Award for Best Article

“A Historiography of African American Business,” Business and Economic History Online 7 (2009)

Courses Taught:

African American Experience II

African American History Survey to and since 1865

African American Women’s History

Beyoncé, Inc.

Black Image in Popular Movies

Black Women’s Enterprise and Activism in the Black Freedom Struggle

Experiences of Black Mississippians

Oprah Winfrey: Gender, Race, and Power

Origins of the Jim Crow South

African American Historiography (Graduate)

Readings in U.S. History from Civil War to the Present (Graduate)

Adjunct Professor

Office Hours:  Mondays and Wednesdays 9-9:40 am

Old Athletics 106
662-915-5439  |  wdsmith@olemiss.edu

Graduate Instructor

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30pm-3:45pm

Longstreet Hall 314
662-915-5801  |  tdbaile1@go.olemiss.edu

Adjunct Instructor

Office Hours:  Wednesdays – 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Old Athletics 103
662-915-5415  |  tjcarey@go.olemiss.edu

Adjunct Instructor of History and Lecturer of Spanish

Office Hours:  Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11am-12pm,
Fridays 1pm – 3pm (Library Starbucks),
Desoto Center—Mondays 5pm-6pm,
Tuesdays and Thursdays via Skype & By Appointment

Bondurant Hall E-207 | 662-915-7660
ecotelo@olemiss.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Mississippi

Adjunct Instructor

Office Hours: Wednesday 8am -9:30am

Old Athletics 104
662-915-1260  |  amnagel@go.olemiss.edu

Associate Professor of  History

Office Hours : Tuesdays 3:30-5 (Zoom/F2F) and by appointment

Bishop Hall 311

(662) 915-7105  |  cromwell@olemiss.edu

Education
Ph.D, The University of Texas at Austin

Teaching and Research Interests
Latin American History, Atlantic History, Caribbean History, Comparative Empires, Maritime Commerce, Piracy and Smuggling, Imperial Reform, Transatlantic Migration

Jesse Cromwell is Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American history.  His research focuses on the imperial and Atlantic histories of Spanish colonialism in the eighteenth-century circum-Caribbean with a special emphasis on how the Bourbon Reforms affected the transimperial interactions, commerce, and mobility of a host of populations in the region.  Professor Cromwell joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in 2012 after earning his B.A. from Brown University and his M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Cromwell’s first book, The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela (Omohundro Institute-UNC Press, 2018) reinterprets the meaning illicit commerce in the early modern Atlantic.  More than simply a transactional relationship or a political-economy concern of empires, smuggling became a societal ethos for the communities in which it was practiced.  For most of the colonial period, subjects of the commercially-neglected Province of Venezuela depended on contrabandists from the Dutch, English, and French Caribbean.  These illegal, yet scarcely-patrolled, rendezvouses came under scrutiny in the eighteenth century as Bourbon reformers sought to regain control and boost productivity in the province.  Subsequent crackdowns on smuggling sparked colonial tensions.  Illicit trade created inter-imperial connections and parallel communities based around provisioning as a moral necessity.  It threw the legal status of people of color aboard ships into chaos.  Smuggling’s participants normalized subversions of imperial law and proffered mutually agreed-upon limits of acceptable extralegal activity.  Venezuelan subjects defended their commercial autonomy through passive measures and occasionally through violent political protests.  This commercial discourse between the state and its subjects was a key part of empire making and maintenance in the early modern world.

Professor Cromwell is currently at work on a new book project examining eighteenth-century, crown-sponsored migrations of Canary Islanders to the circum-Caribbean as settlers and soldiers meant to shore up sparsely-populated Spanish dominions against foreign incursion and increase agricultural productivity.  Imperial bureaucrats sent impoverished individual migrants and whole families to parts of the empire that other Spaniards declined to inhabit, including Florida, Texas, Santo Domingo, Cuba, and Venezuela.  This multi-site study will investigate how an immigrant group much maligned by competing Spanish American colonists as vagrants and halfbreeds came to embody imperial tensions about defense, reform, race, and settler autonomy.

In the Department of History, Professor Cromwell teaches courses in Latin American history, Caribbean history, piracy, commodities, the conquest of Mexico, and graduate courses in Atlantic history.

Jesse Cromwell CV