It’s hard to believe that we’ll need to start thinking about Summer and Fall 2019 courses, huh? It’s true, though! Summer and Fall academic advising will officially begin immediately after spring break. Let’s celebrate advising season together, the best way we know how: with cupcakes.
Join us on Tuesday, March 19 from 3:30-5PM in Bishop Hall 2nd Floor for a preview of 2019 Summer and Fall courses, the chance to learn more about internships and study abroad, and, you know, cupcakes.
Mikaëla M. Adams, associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi, has been awarded a coveted fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies.
The yearlong fellowship allows scholars to focus solely on their research or writing. Of the nearly 1,150 scholars who applied for the 2018 fellowship, only 78 – less than 7 percent – were chosen for the award. Adams, a highly regarded historian of modern America with a focus on Native American history, joined the faculty in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History in 2012.
Adams plans to use her fellowship, to make progress on her new book project, tentatively titled “Influenza in Indian Country: Indigenous Sickness, Suffering, and Survival during the 1918-1919 Pandemic,” which will provide an ethnohistorical account of the world’s deadliest pandemic and its long-term consequences for Native American communities across the United States.
In particular, Adams’s work will explore how the influenza virus infected indigenous people on reservations and boarding schools, how their living conditions in this period exacerbated the effects of influenza, how institutionalized segregation determined Native access to healthcare, how indigenous people responded medically, and how this health crisis affected the federal-tribal relationship. By combining the methodologies of medical history and ethnohistory, moreover, it will highlight both the biological consequences of influenza on Native American communities and the ways that social constructions of race, ethnicity, sickness, and healing shaped the experience of infection for indigenous people in this time period.
Adams is already the author of Who Belongs? Race Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was explores how six southeastern Indian tribes—the Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia, the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida—decided who belonged to their communities in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Assistant Professor
Office Hours: Wed. 2-4pm via Zoom or by appointment
Office: Bishop Hall 311N
Phone: (662) 915-6977
Education
Ph.D, University of California, Riverside
Teaching and Research Interests
Cultural and Political History, Early modern Britain and Europe
Isaac Stephens’ research and teaching center on early modern British/European history, and he has a particular interest in the interplay between religion, politics, gender, and culture during the Stuart period. With his scholarship internationally recognized, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the William Andrews Clark Library, and Vanderbilt University. His publications include articles in the Journal of British Studies and The Historical Journal. Stephens has also authored one book — The Gentlewoman’s Remembrance: Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England (Manchester University Press, 2016) — and co-authored another with Peter Lake — Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid’s Tragedy (Boydell Press, 2015).
His latest book project — tentatively titled Suffering Ejection: Martyr Speak and Popular Politics in London, 1640-1662 and funded by a NEH Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C. (2018-2019) — examines mass ejections of clergy from parish livings in England’s cultural and political hub during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration. These purges throw into sharp relief early modern confessional conflicts that shaped London, if not all of Britain. They also highlight the significance of popular politics and the language of martyrdom, since the city’s disenfranchised inhabitants utilized petitions and polemics often filled with tales of persecution and martyrs to mobilize parochial and state action to expel undesirable clerics from their parishes. In other words, investigating the mass ejections demonstrates how ordinary Londoners found ways to influence local and national politics despite the fact that many never enjoyed the right to vote. The project will offer fresh perspective to understanding the public sphere, popular politics, martyr speak, the English state, and religious identity and disputes in the seventeenth century.
Before joining the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, Stephens accrued extensive teaching experience at Vanderbilt University, Dalhousie University, Appalachian State University, Auburn University, and Saginaw Valley State University. Combined with his research, such experience makes him well suited to offer both undergraduate and graduate instruction at the University of Mississippi in historical methods, early modern Britain, and European and world history.
The History B.A. requires two HST courses from each of the following regions (18 credit hours total):
American History
European History
History of Other Regions
In addition, the B.A. requires an additional 15 credit hours drawn from any HST course.
When new HST courses are approved by the faculty, the instructor may determine the course’s regional designation if there are any ambiguities.
The following courses count as American History:
130 Intro. to US History to 1877
131 Intro. to US History since 1877
400 Early America to 1715
401 Colonial America, 1607-1763
402 Revolutionary America, 1763-1800
403 US – Emerging Nation, 1789-1850
404 US – The Civil War Era, 1848-1877
405 US – Nation Redefined, 1877-1918
406 US – WWI to WWII, 1914-1945
407 US – The Nation since 1945
408 US – WW II to Watergate, 1945-1974
409 US – Watergate to the Present
410 Native America, Pre-contact to 1850
411 Native America since 1850
412 Mississippian Shatter Zone
414 African American History to 1865
415 African American History since 1865
418 African American Women’s History
419 Black Women’s Enterprise & Activism
420 History of African Americans in Sport
422 The Rise and Fall of American Slavery
423 History of Mass Incarceration in the US
424 The Civil Rights Era
425 Era of Reconstruction
426 The American Dream
427 Disease and Medicine in American History
428 US Women’s History
429 US Gender History
430 US Foreign Relations
431 US Legal History
432 US Economic History
433 US Labor History
434 US Religious History
435 US Military History
436 US Sexuality History
440 The Military History of the Civil War
450 Southern History to 1900
451 The South in the Twentieth Century
452 The History of Mississippi
453 Economic History of the South
454 Women in Southern History
455 History of Religion in the South
456 Southern Music History
474 Vietnam War
490 Problems in History – America
The following courses count as European History:
120 Intro. to European History to 1648
121 Intro. to European History since 1648
301 The Golden Age of Athens
302 Law and Life in Ancient Athens
303 Alexander the Great
304 Roman Republic
305 Roman Empire
306 From Republic to Empire
308 Slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome
309 The Middle Ages
310 History of Medieval Christianity
311 Medieval Church and Empire
316 Martyrs of the English Reformation
317 Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
318 Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
319 Reformation Europe
320 Tudor-Stuart Britain & Ireland, 1485-1688
321 Tudor England, 1485-1603
322 Stuart England, 1603-1714
323 Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment
326 Age of Revolution, 1750-1850
331 Europe – Imperialism to World War II, 1890-1945
332 Europe since 1945
334 France since 1789
335 The French Revolution
336 The Napoleonic Era
337 History of London
338 Great Britain in the Modern Age
339 British Empire and Commonwealth
340 Italy since 1815
341 History of Germany, 1789-1918
342 History of Germany since 1890
343 History of the Holocaust
344 Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia
345 Russia in the Twentieth Century
347 Science in the Modern World
348 Women who Ruled in European History
349 Society and the Sexes in Modern Europe
470 The First World War
491 Problems in History – Europe
The following courses count as History of other Regions:
150 Intro. to Middle Eastern History
160 Intro. to Latin American History
170 Intro. to African History
180 Intro. to East Asian History
307 History of Ancient Christianity
350 Muslim World – Origins to Middle Ages
351 Muslim World – Middle Ages to WWI
352 The Middle East since 1914
355 Water in the Middle East
360 Colonial Latin America, 1450-1820
361 Latin America since 1820
362 History of Mexico and Central America
363 History of the Caribbean
364 Independence of Latin America, 1760-1830
366 Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
367 Social Revolutions in Latin America
368 Latin America and the Cold War
370 Modern Africa
371 History of Southern Africa
373 War, Rebellion and Revolution in Africa
374 Nationalism in Africa
375 History of Islam in Africa
380 Pre-Modern China
381 Late Imperial and Modern China
382 China in Revolution
383 China and the United States since 1784
384 Global Shanghai
385 Gender/Sexuality in East Asian History
387 Modern Japanese History
388 War and Memory in Japan
389 History of Japan-United States Relations
392 South Asia and the Indian Ocean
482 Samurai in Film
492 Problems in History – World
The following courses do not fit any of these categories:
300 Historical Methods
460 Public History
461 History on Location
463 Practicum in Public History
465 Digital History
472 The Cold War
478 History of Pharmacy
479 Alcohol in the Americas
493 Undergraduate History Internship
496 Topics in History Abroad
The following courses may fit one of the three categories, based on the content and/or instructor of the particular section:
199: What is History?
471 The Second World War
481 Topics in History and Film
494 Directed Readings in History
498 Undergrad Research Seminar in History
499 Undergrad Reading Seminar in History
The Southern Association for Women Historians has awarded Jessica Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies, the 2017 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize, which is given annually for the best article on women’s history published during the preceding calendar year.
Wilkerson’s winning article, “The Company Owns the Mine but They Don’t Own Us: Feminist Critiques of Capitalism in the Coalfields of Kentucky in the 1970s,” appeared in Gender & History last March. It examined women’s involvement in the Brookside Mine strike of 1974, which captivated US audiences and provided women with an unprecedented public platform to challenge the class and gender system undergirding coalfield capitalism. During the strike, Wilkerson shows, female kin of miners in Harlan County, Kentucky, started a club to support striking miners and their families and to organize picket lines and were joined by women from across the region and country.
With the strike as their foundation these women generated a women’s movement that revealed the specific ways class and gender inequality shaped their lives, defined by the heavy-duty care work characteristic of the coalfields. The Brookside women’s support of striking miners, Wilkerson demonstrates, was fundamentally about gendered class inequality: the denigration of working-class, female caregivers alongside the devaluing of men’s labour. Using collective memory and individual experience as their interpretive devices, her article reveals how the Brookside women forged a class-conscious feminism that exposed the traumas of coalfield capitalism, shone a light on women’s unpaid care work (one of the foundations of corporate capitalism), and destabilized the gender and class hierarchies that defined coalfield communities.
The Center for Civil War Research and the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History present the eleventh annual Conference on the Civil War to be held September 29 and 30 in Oxford, Mississippi. The theme of this year’s conference is “Borders, Boundaries, and Lines in the Civil War” and will include work that explores both literal and figurative boundaries, including the experiences of border states, the boundaries between slavery and freedom, border patrols, racial boundaries, and battle lines.
The keynote address will be given by Dr. Christopher Phillips of the University of Cincinnati, author of The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border, which was the winner of the 2017 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. Phillips will speak on “Southern Cross, North Star: The Cultural Politics of Race and Irreconciliation on the Post-Civil War Middle Border” on Friday, September 29 at 6:30 p.m. in 107 Croft Institute. This event is free and open to the public.
The 2017 Wiley-Silver Prize for Best First Book in Civil War History will also be awarded at the conference.
A complete schedule of events will available soon at the Center for Civil War Research site.
David Nichols, Professor of History at Indiana State University, will give a talk entitled “Between a Dollar and a Pistaroon: Currency, Commensurability, and Conspicuous Consumption in the Chickasaw Nation” on Wednesday, September 13 at 5:30 pm in 515 Lamar Hall.
Professor Nichols received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Kentucky. He joined the faculty at Indiana State University in 2004 and became an associate professor in 2010.
His specialty is early America, with a particular interest in Native American history during the Revolutionary and early national era. He is the author of Red Gentlemen & White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the Early American Frontier (University of Virginia Press, 2008), and Engines of Diplomacy: Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). He is currently working on a short history of the Great Lakes Indians and a study of economic change among the Chickasaws.
The Arch Dalrymple III Department of History is thrilled to announce that Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson has joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor specializing in modern Britain.
Professor Lindgren-Gibson received her BA from Lawrence University, her MA in History with a specialization in Public History from Arizona State University, and her PhD from Northwestern University. Her research interests are located at the intersection of histories of the British colonial world, class formation, family history, and the histories of race, gender, and sexuality.
Her book project, Working-Class Raj: Making a British Imperial Nonelite, rethinks the history of British class formation through an imperial lens by bringing together two major themes in British history: class and empire. Drawing on the writings and records of British nonelites, Working-Class Raj sheds light on the entangled experiences of class, race, and private life in Victorian India and Britain.
Professor Lindgren-Gibson’s work has been published in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History and supported by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society, and Northwestern University’s Chabraja Center for Historical Research.
Professor Lindgren-Gibson has previously taught courses on the history of modern Europe, the British Empire, gender and sexuality in Victorian Britain and in empire, and the history of shopping. This fall she is teaching HST 121: Intro to European History since 1648 and HST 339: British Empire and Commonwealth.
Assistant Professor
Office Hours: by appointment
Education
Ph.D, Harvard University
Teaching and Research Interests
Gender and Sexuality, 19th- and 20th-century America
Eva Payne is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century U.S. with a focus on women, gender, and sexuality and the U.S. in transnational perspective. She received a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD in American Studies from Harvard University.
Her current book project, Purity and Power: Americans and the International Crusade Against Sexual Vice, 1870–1937 shows how American reformers transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As they worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as the cornerstone of civilization and the basis of American exceptionalism. The book argues that the fight against sexual vice was a crucial way Americans sought to remake other nations in their image and enhance US global standing in an imperial age. Reformers argued that their vision of civilized sexual morality was a precondition for modern nationhood and democracy. They successfully pushed for international agreements that mirrored US laws, calling for states to criminalize prostitution and restrict migration, all in the name of protecting women. At the same time, the project attends to the experiences of the women whom reformers claimed to rescue. Their words defy the dichotomies that shaped reformers’ vision: choice and coercion, free and unfree labor, white sexual innocence and the assumed depravity of people of color.
Payne’s recent article “Deportation as Rescue: White Slaves, Women Reformers, and the US Bureau of Immigration,” in the Journal of Women’s History examines how well-known reformer Kate Waller Barrett reconfigured deportation as a protective rather than a punitive act in the early twentieth century. In doing so, she expanded the authority of white maternalist women’s organizations to police poor migrant women and women of color domestically, and to pursue US government interests in the international arena.
Payne is also engaged in a number of public history projects. She has worked on exhibitions of art and historical objects at museums and galleries, including the Harvard Art Museum and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. At the University of Mississippi, she is co-director of the Invisible Histories Project – Mississippi, a Mellon Foundation-funded project that documents and preserves Mississippi’s LGBTQ+ history through oral histories and archival collecting.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11am-12pm,
2-2:30pm
Old Athletics 101
davarel@olemiss.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Teaching and Research Interests
20th-century America
David Varel is an intellectual historian of the modern United States who specializes in race, the history of social science, and the civil rights movement. Last year he served as a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Case Western Reserve University.
Varel’s research explores the struggle against scientific racism, and he specializes in the generation of black scholars who transformed the academy in the second quarter of the twentieth century. His forthcoming book, The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, spring 2018), is the first study of the pioneering anthropologist Allison Davis. Davis was the first African American appointed full-time to a predominantly white university. Among other accomplishments, his research contributed to Brown v. Board of Education, the federal Head Start program, and the abolition of culturally biased intelligence tests. His marginalized career is a testament to the troubled politics of race in the academy.
Varel’s work has also appeared in the Journal of Negro Education and Knowledge Cultures, and it has been supported by fellowships from the New York Public Library, the University of Chicago Library, and the University of Colorado. He is currently working on a project on the black history movement.
