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Associate Professor. 20th-century United States History, social
and cultural emphasis. History Department,
Ithaca College. August 2005 - present.
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Doctor of Philosophy in History. August 1999. University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Major Field: United
States history.
Emphases: social
and cultural history.
Dissertation: “Murder
and the Modern Sensibility: Sensationalism and Cultural Change in Richmond,
Virginia, from the Victorian Era to the Age of Ragtime” (Professor John
F. Kasson, advisor)
Master of Arts in History. August 1993. University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thesis: “Charting
Richmond's Fun: The Changing Shape of Commercial Amusements in Richmond,
Virginia, 1880-1920.”
Bachelor of Arts in History. December 1989. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
The Book:
The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
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Articles -- Peer Reviewed:
"Jim Crow Justice, the Richmond Planet, and the Murder of Lucy Pollard" in Robert Asher, Lawrence Goodheart, and Alan Rogers, eds., Murder on Trial, 1620 - 2002 (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 61-85.
"Murder Made Real: the Visual Revolution of the Half-tone" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 111 (2003): 379-410. Winner of the William M. E. Rachal award for the best overall essay in the Magazine for 2003, and the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era's Biennial Article Prize for 2005.
“Freedmen and Enslaved Soil: A Case Study of Manumission, Migration, and Land” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 104 (Autumn, 1996): 455-80. Winner of the C. Coleman McGehee award for the best graduate student essay in the Magazine for 1996.
Articles -- Other:
"When Coney Island Arrived in Richmond: Leisure in the Capital at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" Virginia Cavalcade 51 (Autumn 2002): 168-79.
"Review Essay: The Lure of the Sensational Murder" The Journal of Social History 35 (December 2001):429-43.
Brief Articles and Contributions:
"Thomas Judson Cluverius" and "John Jeter Crutchfield" in Sara B. Bearss, ed., Dictionary of Virginia Biography, v. III (Richmond: Library of Virginia, forthcoming).
"Uncovering a Forgotten Life" in Ithaca College Quarterly 20 (Fall 2002): 13-14.
"Cultural Change in the Gilded Age" and "Crime in the Gilded Age" in Leonard Schlup and James G. Ryan, eds., The Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003), 113, 117.
Book Reviews:
In Preparation:Richard F. Hamm, Murder, Honor, and Law: Four Virginia Homicides From Reconstruction to the Great Depression (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003) for The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 111 (2003): 315-16..
Patricia C. Click, Time Full of Trial: the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001) for The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 109 (2001): 339-40.
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: Workers and the Making of American Consumer Culture (Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1997), in Industrial and Labor Relations Review 53 (Jan. 2000): 335-37.
Elizabeth Faue Bethel, The Roots of African-American Identity (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), in The William and Mary Quarterly 55 (July 1998): 488-9.
"Terror in the Heart of the Superstitious African: Public and Private Execution in the Post-Bellum South" A Study of the South's transition from public to private execution and the role of race in it.
"Notes on a Native Son's Diary: Life in Jim Crow Richmond" Using the diary of a young African-American clerk in Richmond, Virginia, I recreate the sort of life afforded blacks under Jim Crow segregation by reprinting portions of the diary annotated to elaborate upon the fascinating range of issues he raises. This is my next project.
"Public Executions as the Historical Context for Lynching", a presentation at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, November, 2006. I also organized this panel, titled "Race, Lynching, and Legal Executions in the South and Southwest."
"Recasting the Male Murderer at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," a presentation at the American Studies Association annual conference, Washington, DC, November, 2001.
"The Woman in the Case: Realism Recasts the Female Murder Victim in Richmond, Virginia, 1867-1911," a presentation at the Southern Conference on Women's History, Richmond, Virginia, 17 June 2000.
“From the Gallows to the Chair: Changes in Execution in Turn-of-the-Century America,” Ithaca College, 2 November 1999.
“Mimesis and Murderers: A Case Study of the Halftone’s Visual Revolution,” a presentation at the conference “Semblance and Likeness: Studies in Visual Culture,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 29-30 January, 1999.
“From Romance to Realism in Murder: Changes in the Criminal Face with the Introduction of Photography,” a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D. C., October 16-19, 1997.
“‘Travesties of Justice:’ Virginia’s Judicial System and Popular Opinion in the Late-Victorian Era” a presentation at the conference “Telling About the South,” University of Virginia, 22 March 1997.
“‘The All-Absorbing Topic:’ A Murder Mystery in Late-Victorian Richmond, Virginia,” a presentation at the conference “Tales of the City: The Urban Center and Its Place in History,” Princeton University, 4 October 1996.
“‘Cousin Tommie!’: Crime Sources and the study of Urban Culture,” a presentation at the ERASMUS intensive course “Cities and Cultures Since the End of the Middle Ages,” Leicester University, England, 16 April 1996.
OTHER PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Panel Participant, “Race in America: then, now, & tomorrow: A discussion/engagement of Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ speech”. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, April 2008.
Public Reading of The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South, Bookery II, Ithaca, NY, May 2008.
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