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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, August 1979-May 1980. Resigned May 1980 to accept NEH Fellowship (see below).

Evening School, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, January-May 1983 (part-time).

Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, September 1983-August 1989; Associate Professor, September 1989- , specializing in the History of the American South.

Part-time employment on search room night staff, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC, April 1976-August 1979.

Arrangement and Description of David R. Coker Collection, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, December 1977-August 1979; May-August 1980; June 1982-February 1983.

National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, Fellow, 1994-1995.

Alfred D. Chandler Lecturer in Southern Business History, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 4, 2001.

PUBLICATIONS:

MONOGRAPH:

COLLECTED ESSAYS:

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BOOK CHAPTER:

EDITED VOLUMES:

(with Peter A. Coclanis) Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression: The Report on Economic Conditions of the South and Supplementary Documents (edited with an introduction) (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996).

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

"The Piedmont and Waccamaw Regions: An Economic Comparison" South Carolina Historical Magazine 88 (April 1987): 83-100.

(with Peter A. Coclanis) "Capital Mobilization and Southern Industry, 1880-1920: The Case of the Southern Piedmont" Journal of Economic History 49 (March 1989): 73-94.

"The Revolution From Above: The National Economy and the Beginnings of Industrialization in North Carolina" Journal of American History 77 (September 1990): 445-475.

"The Sunbelt Debate Revisited" (review essay) Journal of Urban History 20 (November 1993): 114-122.

(with Peter A. Coclanis) "The Uninventive South? A Quantitative Look at Region and American Inventiveness" Technology and Culture 36 (April 1995): 220-44.

With Peter A. Coclanis) "Another ‘Great Migration': From Region to Race in Southern Liberalism, 1938-1945" Southern Cultures 3 (Winter 1997): 37-62.

"Rethinking Southern History," Southern Cultures (Spring 2001): 38-49.

(With Peter A. Coclanis) "The Crisis in Economic History," Challenge (November-December 2001).

"A Loss? Or a Labor?" Reviews in American History (December 2001): 581-586.

"To the Land: A Journey Into Sacred Harp" Southern Cultures (Summer 2003).

ESSAYS IN COLLECTIONS:

"'Builders of a New State': The Town Classes and Early Industrialization of South Carolina, 1880-1907," in Walter J. Fraser and Winfred B. Moore, Jr., eds., From the Old South to the New: Essays on the Transitional South (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1981), pp. 43-62.

"Unbalanced Growth and Industrialization: The Case of South Carolina," in Winfred B. Moore, Jr., Joseph F. Tripp, and Lyon G. Tyler, Jr., eds., Developing Dixie: Modernization in a Traditional Society (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), pp. 111-130.

"The State and the Worker in the South: A Lesson From South Carolina," in David R. Chesnutt and Clyde N. Wilson, eds., The Meaning of South Carolina History: Essays in Honor of George C. Rogers, Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991), 186-201.

"Paternalism and Southern Textile Labor: A Historiographical View," in Gary M. Fink and Merle E. Reed, eds., Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor History (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 17-26.

"How American Is the American South?" in Don H. Doyle and Larry J. Griffin, eds., The South as an American Problem (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), 33-56.

(with Peter A. Coclanis) "Southern Textiles in Global Context," in Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, ed. Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005), 151-174.

"Smokestack-Chasing and Its Discontents: Southern Development Strategy in the Twentieth Century," in The American South in the Twentieth Century, ed. Craig S. Pascoe, Karen Trahan Leatham, and Andy Ambrose (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005), 106-126.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:

"Commercial Expositions," in David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, eds., Encyclopedia of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 262.

"Reinhold Niebuhr" and "Merle E. Curti," in Dictionary of American Literary Biography, vol. 17: Writers of American History in the Twentieth Century, ed. Clyde N. Wilson (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Publishers, 1983), pp. 131-135; 333-336.

"J.P. Stevens and Company," in William Ferris and Charles Reagan Wilson, Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989), pp. 751-752.

"Urbanization," in Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, 4 vols. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), IV, pp. 1641-1648.

BOOK REVIEWS:

"The 'Town People' of Anderson, S.C.: A Case Study in Modernization," delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, December 1980.

(with Lacy K. Ford) "The 'Colonial Economy' and the Postbellum South: A Reappraisal," delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Charleston, SC, November 1983.

"Is There a Southern Ascendancy?" Vanderbilt Magazine 73 (Fall 1988): 8-9. Transcribed comments on panel discussion at 1988 Alumni Reunion.

"How American Is the South?" delivered to American Studies Symposium, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, June 2, 1989.

"Notes on Strategies of Economic Development: The Case of North Carolina, 1865-1945," delivered to the Study Group on the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 7, 1990.

"South Carolina and the First New South" and "Mill and Town in South Carolina," presented to "TEACH: South Carolina's Cultural Memory," a Summer Institute for South Carolina Teachers, sponsored by Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, July 25 and 26, 1991.

"Strategies of Economic Development: The Case of North Carolina," presented to Triangle Area Vanderbilt Alumni Association, May 16, 1995.

(with Peter A. Coclanis) "Region and Race: Southern Liberalism and the Report on Economic Conditions of the South," presented to the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, November 17, 1995.

"Broadus Mitchell and the Religion of Modernization, " keynote address to Annual Meeting of Southern Industrialization Project, Knoxville, TN, October 3, 1998.

"Strategies of Southern Development: The Case of North Carolina," delivered to Business History Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 6, 1999.

"Southern Labor and Politics," Roundtable Discussion, Southern Labor Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2, 1999.

"The American South and the American Manufacturing Belt," presented to the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, MO, March 31, 2000 (enlarged version presented to the Annual Meeting of the St. George Tucker Society, Nashville, TN, August 11, 2000, and Vanderbilt History Department Faculty Seminar, October 3, 2000).

"C. Vann Woodward and the Southern Economy Revisited," delivered at "C. Vann Woodward and the Idea of a New South," sponsored by the Florida-Georgia Region of the Historical Society, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, October 6, 2000.

"Thoughts on Entrepreneurship, Industrialization, and the Edgefield Experience," presented to the Edgefield History Summit, Edgefield, S.C., October 13, 2001.

"Community Entrepreneurship: Three North Carolina Cases," Alfred D. Chandler Lecture in Southern Business History, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 4, 2001.

"The Role of Textiles in Southern Industrialization," public lecture presented at Spartanburg County Library, March 5, 2003.

"Rural Industrialization and Southern Development in the Long Run: The Case of Graniteville Mill and the Edgefield District of South Carolina, 1845-2000," presented at Social Science History Association, Portland, OR, November 3, 2006.

Commenter at The Citadel Conference on the South (April 1980), Southern Historical Association (November 1985, November 1991, and November 1997), Social Science History Association (November 1988, November 2003), St. George Tucker Society (August 1992, August 1993, and June 1994), Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (July 1996); International Business History Conference, Glasgow, Scotland (July 1997); The Historical Society (June 1999, June 2000, May 2002, June 2004); "Limits of the Past" Conference, Vanderbilt University, (April 2002), American Historical Association (January 2003), and Organization of American Historians (April 2005).

Reviews of article manuscripts for The Historian, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Southern History, and Southern Cultures; reviews of book manuscripts for Vanderbilt University Press, Oxford University Press, D. C. Heath and Company, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., the University of Tennessee Press, the University of Georgia Press, Cambridge University Press, the University of North Carolina Press, McGraw-Hill, Inc., the University of South Carolina Press, and Addison Wesley Longmans.

One outside tenure review; one outside promotion review.

Member, History Board of Advisers, University of South Carolina Press.

Application Reviewer, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, November 1992; National Humanities Center, annually since 1997.

Contributor, Mary Beth Norton, General Editor, The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Board of Editors, H-South (An electronic mail forum devoted to the history of the American South, sponsored by H-Net).

Consultant, Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC.

Consultant, Jupiter Entertainment, Inc., Knoxville, TN, on documentary series, "Empires of Industry," prepared for The History Channel (also on-screen interview).

Consultant, Southeastern Library Network, project on "The American South: Resources in Culture and History," May-December 1999.

Consultant, Gaston County Museum, Dallas, N.C.