Faculty Bio - Andrea Arrington

Andrea Arrington
  • Assistant Professor
  • Africa

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Biography

Andrea L. Arrington received her B.A. in History from Knox College and her Masters and Ph.D. from Emory University. Her doctoral fields are African History, Comparative Women’s History, and the Atlantic World. Her dissertation “Power, Culture, and Colonial Development around Victoria Falls, 1880-1910” examines the earliest years of colonial development in North-Western Rhodesia. She has contributed entries in two recent Oxford Encyclopedia Series and has an article in African Studies about tensions developing between Zambian and Zimbabwean workers in the Victoria Falls border area. She is currently completing her manuscript, “Turning Water into Gold: The Commercialization of Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe 1880-2008.” Dr. Arrington is also involved in the U of A’s African and African American Studies Program and Gender Studies program, as well as in international Africanist scholars’ groups.

Professor Arrington teaches a number of courses in the department and African American studies, including HIST 3253 History of Sub-Saharan Africa, HIST 398V Women of Sub-Saharan Africa, HIST 398V Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, HIST 3973H Honors Historical Methods, HIST 4263 Independence and Africa Today, and HIST 5023 Historical Methods.

Courses Taught

  • HIST 1123 006 World Civ II TR 2:00-3:20 JB HUNT 147
  • HIST 1123H 002 Hnrs World Civ II TR 9:30-10:50 MAIN 423
  • HIST 4263 001 Independence and Africa Today TR 12:30-1:50 MAIN 203

Faculty Bio - Alessandro Brogi

Alessandro Brogi
  • Associate Professor
  • U.S. Diplomatic, 20th Century U.S.

Contact Information

  • abrogi@uark.edu
  • 575-5888
  • MAIN 403
  • Office Hours:
    T 9:00-10:30; R 2:15-3:00
    Or by appointment

Biography

Alessandro Brogi received two Ph.D.s (from Ohio University in 1998 and from the University of Florence in 1993). His first book, in Italian, analyzes U.S.-Italian relations in the early Cold War, and is titled L'Italia e l'egemonia americana nel Mediterraneo (Italy and American Hegemony in the Mediterranean) (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1996). The book was finalist for the book prize Acqui Storia. His second book is titled A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002). He has also published several articles on U.S.-European relations on journals including the prime Diplomatic History and Journal of Cold War Studies. Brogi was at Yale as Lecturer and John Olin Fellow in International Security Studies in 1999-2002. At the U of A since 2002, he also held a position as Visiting Professor at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, Italy, in the fall of 2004, and was awarded a resident research fellowship by the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo (spring 2007). His principal area of research is U.S. strategic and cultural relations with Western Europe during the Cold War and his next book, forthcoming with University of North Carolina Press will analyze left-wing anti-Americanism in France and Italy during the Cold War, and U.S. reactions and strategies to stop the advance of communism in both countries: the title is Confronting Anti-Americanism: America's Cold War against the Communists in France and Italy. A native of Florence, Italy, Brogi has resided in the United States since 1990, but prefers to keep a double citizenship.

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Faculty Bio - Liang Cai

Liang Cai
  • Assistant Professor
  • East Asian History

Contact Information

  • liangc@uark.edu
  • 575-7596
  • MAIN 507
  • Office Hours:
    TR 12:30-2:00
    Or by appointment

Biography

Liang Cai received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2007, specializing in early Chinese intellectual history. Her principal area of interest, as well as the focus of her recent research, is early historical narratives and the development of early Confucianism and Daoism. She is currently revising her book manuscript, tentatively entitled “In the Matrix of Power: A Study of the Social and Political Status of Confucians (Ru) in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.–8 C.E.).” Among her other areas of research and teaching interest are social and cultural history of ancient China, Chinese mythology, material culture of early China, archaeologically discovered texts, and intellectual history of late imperial China.

Courses Taught

  • HIST 398V 002 SpcTpcs:Classical Chinese Thought TR 3:30-4:50 MAIN 203
  • HIST 4813 001 Hist of China to 1644 TR 11:00-12:20 SCEN 407
  • HIST 5053 001 SpcTpcs:Classical Chinese Thought TR 3:30-4:50 MAIN 203

Faculty Bio - Lynda Coon

Lynda Coon
  • Associate Professor, Chair
  • Medieval Europe, Gender

Contact Information

  • llcoon@uark.edu
  • 575-5896
  • MAIN 416E
  • Office Hours:
    T 9:00-11:00; R 2:00-4:00
    Or by appointment

Biography

Lynda L. Coon (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1990) researches the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in the early medieval era, c. 600-900. In 2004-05 she served as the Lilly Fellow in Religion and the Humanities at the National Humanities Center. She teaches courses on late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (c. 400-1000), the later Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300), women and Christianity (c. 30-1400), and the history of Christianity (c. 4 BCE-400 CE). Coon also offers graduate reading seminars in pre-modern gender history as well as the visual and material cultures of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In 1998, she was named Fulbright College Master Teacher and in 2000 she received the Charles and Nadine Baum University of Arkansas Teaching Award.

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  • Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West (book manuscript under contract, University of Pennsylvania Press)
  • Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)
  • That Gentle Strength: Historical Perspectives on Women and Christianity, co-edited with Elisabeth Sommer and Katherine Haldane (University of Virginia Press, 1990).
  • “Gender and the Body, 600-1100,” in Thomas Noble and Julia Smith (eds.), Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3, Early Medieval Christianity, c. 600-1100 (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 434-452.
  • “Somatic Styles of the Early Middle Ages,” Gender & History 20/3 (2008): 463-486.
  • “Collecting the Desert in the Carolingian West,” Church History and Religious Culture 86 (2006): 135-162.
  • “What is the Word if not Semen?: Priestly Bodies in Carolingian Exegesis,” in Leslie Brubaker and Julia Smith (eds.), Gender in the Early Medieval World, East and West, 300-900 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 278-300
  • “Historical Fact and Exegetical Fiction in Ermanrich's Vita S. Sualonis,” Church History 72.1 (2003): 1-24.
  • “Refashioning the Sacred: Saints and Charismatic Clothing in the Late Antique West,” Earthly Love, Spiritual Love, Love of the Saints, Sewanee Medieval Studies 8 (1999): 109-120.

Courses Taught

  • HIST 5133 001 RdgSem:Early Medieval Christianity M 3:30-6:20 MAIN 412

Faculty Bio - Robert Finlay

Robert Finlay
  • Professor
  • Early-Modern Europe, World

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Biography

After receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1973, Robert Finlay taught at Hartwick College in New York, the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, and Reed College in Oregon. He teaches early modern European history and world history. Dr. Finlay has published “Weaving the Rainbow: Visions of Color in World History,” Journal of World History (2007), and is expecting two books to be published in late 2008: The Pilgrim Art: The Culture of Porcelain in World History and Venice Besieged: Politics and Diplomacy in the Italian Wars, 1494-1534.

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  • The Pilgrim Art: The Culture of Porcelain in World History (University of California Press, 2009).
  • Venice Besieged: Politics and Diplomacy in the Italian Wars, 1494-1534(Ashgate Publishing, Great Britain, 2008).
  • La Vita Politica nel la Venezia del Rinascimento (Milan: Jaca Book, 1982).
  • Politics in Renaissance Venice (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press and London: Ernest Benn, 1980).

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Faculty Bio - Joel Gordon

Joel Gordon
  • Professor
  • Modern Middle East, History and Culture

Contact Information

  • joelg@uark.edu
  • 575-4755
  • MAIN 202
  • Office Hours:
    TR 1:30-2:00
    Or by appointment

Biography

Joel Gordon (PhD University of Michigan) is a political and cultural historian of modern Egypt and the Middle East. He teaches and writes about political change, the intersections of public and popular culture, historical memory and nostalgia, and religious and secular cross-currents, with emphases on cinema, music, and mass media. He has authored the chapter on Egypt since 1919 for the New Cambridge History of Islam and is currently working on a study of the Muslim Brotherhood. He joined the University of Arkansas Faculty in 1999 and is affiliated with the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Program. He is book review editor for history of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

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  • Nasser: Hero of the Arab Nation (Oneworld Press, 2006)
  • Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt (University of Chicago Middle East Center, 2002).
  • Nasser's Blessed Movement: Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1992; 2nd ed/pb American University in Cairo Press, 1997).
  • “Egypt since 1919,” New Cambridge History of Islam, v. 5 (forthcoming)
  • “River Blindness: Black and White Identity in Early Nasserist Cinema,” Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities (ed.) Israel Gershoni et al (Lynne Rienner Press, 2008), 137-56
  • “The Slaps Felt around the Arab World: Family and National Melodrama in 2 Nasser-era Musicals,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 39 (2) 2007, 209-28
  • “The Nightingale and the Ra’is: Abd al-Halim Hafez and Nasserist Longings,” in Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt, Elie Podeh and Onn Winckler (eds.) (Florida University Press, 2004), 307-23
  • “Singing the Pulse of the Egyptian-Arab Street: Shaaban Abd al-Rahim and the Geo-pop Politics of Fast Food,” Popular Music 22/1 (2003), 75-90

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Faculty Bio - Thomas Grischany

Thomas Grischany
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Modern Germany, Modern Europe

Contact Information

  • tgrischa@uark.edu
  • 575-5890
  • MAIN 511
  • Office Hours:
    T 3:30-4:15; R 11:00-11:45
    Or by appointment

Biography

Thomas Grischany received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2007. Previously he studied in his native Austria (University of Vienna; Diplomatic Academy) and in Germany (University of Hamburg). His dissertation is entitled “The Austrians in the German Wehrmacht, 1938-45”, and he contributed articles on similar topics to the Austrian History Yearbook (2007), Contemporary Austrian Studies (2009), and Zeitgeschichte (forthcoming).

A specialist for German history from antiquity to the present, Grischany's interests and research focus on the period of modern German nationalism 1815 to 1945 and the role of Austria therein, as well as the Third Reich and National Socialism. He currently teaches courses on European and German History in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

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Faculty Bio - Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon

Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon
  • Assistant Professor
  • Great Britain, Ireland, British Empire, History of Terrorism

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Biography

Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2006. He is the author of two books, The Irish Experience during the Second World War: An Oral History (Irish Academic Press, 2004) and Turning Points of the Irish Revolution: The British Government, Intelligence, and the Cost of Indifference, 1912-1921 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), as well as a number of articles in such journals as The Historian, Terrorism and Political Violence, The Journal of Intelligence History, and British Scholar. His current research examines British counterinsurgency in the empire during decolonization. He teaches courses on British history, modern imperialism, and world history.

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  • Turning Points of the Irish Revolution: The British Government, Intelligence, and the Cost of Indifference, 1912-1921, New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • The Irish Experience during the Second World War: An Oral History, Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2004. (Selected as a 2004 Book of the Year by the Sunday Irish Independent).

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Faculty Bio - Elizabeth Markham

Elizabeth Markham
  • Professor
  • Premodern Japan, Music

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Biography

Elizabeth Markham (Ph.D. University of Cambridge, England) is an historical musicologist working on music and culture in East Asia with a focus on the court and temple arts in medieval Japan. She is particularly interested in prosody and melody in poetry, chant and song, and in the oral and the written in performance and transmission. Wider interests and her teaching emphasis include Buddhism in East Asia, historical ethnomusicology, aesthetic concepts in Japanese performing arts, and comparative music theory. Before coming to the University of Arkansas in 2000 she held research positions as Research Fellow at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge (England), Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Würzburg (Germany), and Leverhulme Fellow at the Queen's University of Belfast Ireland). She spent a year of fieldwork as a novice in the gagaku orchestra of Kasuga Taisha in Nara (Japan), and undertakes ethnomusicological field-work and archival research in Japan, China, and Europe.

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  • Saibara : Japanese court songs of the Heian period

Courses Taught

  • AIST 4003 001 AsianColloq:HiddenViews In Japan TR 11:00-12:20 HOLC 104F
  • AIST 4003H 001 HnrsAsianColloq:HiddenViews-Japan TR 11:00-12:20 HOLC 104F

Faculty Bio - Robert McMath

Robert McMath
  • Interim Provost, Professor
  • US Political, South

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Biography

ROBERT C. McMATH, Ph.D. Professor. U.S. Political and Social. The South. Bob McMath received his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1972. Between 1972 and 2005 he taught history and served in a variety of administrative posts at Georgia Tech. In 1996 McMath was awarded a position as Fulbright Lecturer in Italy. He serves as interim provost at the U of A and has been Dean of the Honors College. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and seven books, including Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers’ Alliance (1975/1977); American Populism: A Social History (1992); and (with Arthur S. Link and Robert Remini), The American People: A History (1981/1986). His most recent article is “Another look at the ‘hard side’ of Populism,” Reviews in American History 36 (June, 2008), 209-217.

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Courses Taught

  • HIST 3923H 003 HnrsColloq:Rise/Fall(?)ConservMvmtAmerPol MW 1:30-2:50 ADMN 424

Faculty Bio - Charles Muntz

Charles Muntz
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Ancient History

Contact Information

  • cmuntz@uark.edu
  • 575-5891
  • MAIN 407
  • Office Hours:
    W 10:30-11:30; R 1:00-2:00
    Or by appointment

Biography

Charles Muntz received a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke University in 2008, and a B.A. with High Honors from Swarthmore College in 2002.  He has also attended both the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.  His dissertation, "Diodorus Siculus, Egypt, and Rome," explored Diodorus and his concept of universal history, and how they fit into the intellectual world of the late Roman Republic.  Muntz teaches courses on both Greek and Roman history and culture.

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Faculty Bio - Michael Pierce

Michael Pierce
  • Assistant Professor
  • US Labor, Arkansas

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Biography

Michael Pierce received his A.B. from Kenyon College and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He is currently revising a manuscript on organized labor and the Populist party in Ohio and has begun a number of projects examining the role of organized labor in the state of Arkansas. Pierce is the co-author of In the Workers’ Interest: A History of the Ohio AFL-CIO, 1958-1998 and is co-editor of Builders of Ohio: A Biographical History. His essays have appeared in Labor History, Agricultural History, the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and various edited volumes. He serves as associate editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly.

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  • Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party

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Faculty Bio - Charles Robinson

Charles Robinson
  • Associate Professor
  • African American, US

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Biography

Charles Robinson II received a B.A. with honors in American History from the University of Houston and graduated with a M.A. from Rice University. He earned a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Houston in 1997. He taught history at Houston Community College for nine years and served in adjunct positions at Prairie View University and the University of Houston. Robinson has received numerous academic, professional, and community awards including the Fulbright Master Teacher Award and the Arkansas Alumni Distinguished Teacher Award. He published Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South (University of Arkansas, 2003) and is currently working on a book length manuscript entitled, Forsaking All Others: A Story of Interracial Intimacy, Persecution and Revenge in the New South.

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Faculty Bio - Beth Schweiger

Beth Schweiger
  • Associate Professor
  • 19c US Social/Cultural, US Religion

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Biography

Professor Schweiger (PhD, University of Virginia, 1994) came to the University of Arkansas in 2000. She is a social and cultural historian of the early United States, particularly of the South. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of the early American republic, antebellum America, and the history of religion in America to 1860. Her first book was a social history of religion in the nineteenth-century South, and she is completing a study of reading and writing in the antebellum South. She has supervised doctoral work on Louisiana creoles, slave catechisms, dueling, Indians and Africans in early Louisiana, and slavery in the trans-Mississippi, and nineteenth-century Protestantism.

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  • Religion in the American South: Protestans and Others in History and Culture. ed. with Donald G. Mathews. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Faculty Bio - Kathryn Sloan

Kathryn Sloan
  • Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
  • Latin America, Gender

Contact Information

  • ksloan@uark.edu
  • 575-5887
  • MAIN 508
  • Office Hours:
    TR 12:30-1:30
    Or by appointment

Biography

Kathryn Sloan (PhD Kansas, 2002) is a Latin Americanist who specializes in the social and gender history of modern Mexico. She is the author of Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (New Mexico, 2008) which examines seduction cases to understand courtship practices, intergenerational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and changing concepts of citizenship in Mexico. She is currently writing a book-length history of women in Latin America and the Caribbean. A member of the Latin American Studies faculty, Dr. Sloan teaches a wide variety of courses in Latin American social and cultural history.

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  • Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

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Faculty Bio - Richard Sonn

Richard Sonn
  • Associate Professor
  • France, Modern Europe, Gender

Contact Information

  • rsonn@uark.edu
  • 575-5707
  • MAIN 409
  • Office Hours:
    T 10:50-11:50; R 3:30-4:20
    Or by appointment

Biography

Richard Sonn received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France (University of Nebraska, 1989), Anarchism (Tweyne, 1992), and Sex, Violence and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France, (Penn State U.P., forthcoming in 2010). He teaches courses in French history and in modern European social, cultural and intellectual history, as well as the graduate methods course.

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Faculty Bio - Tricia Starks

Tricia Starks
  • Associate Professor
  • Russian/Soviet, Gender, Public Health

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Biography

When not discussing the downfall of capitalism with her friends on Red Square, Tricia Starks (B.A. University of Missouri, 1991; Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2000) investigates public health and the techniques of the modern state in the former Soviet Union. She currently researches the culture of tobacco use from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Her monograph Cigarettes & Soviets: A History of Tobacco Use in Twentieth-Century Russia is under construction with help from grants from the NEH, NCEEER, the Kennan Institute, and the University of Arkansas. She teaches courses on Russian history from its beginnings to the present. In 2007, she was inducted into the University of Arkansas Teaching Academy after having won both the Master Teacher Award of Fulbright College and the University of Arkansas Student Alumni Board Teacher of the Year Award in 2006.

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  • Tobacco in Russian History and Culture from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, eds. Matthew Romaniello and Tricia Starks, Routledge University Press, 2009
  • The Body Soviet: Hygiene, Propaganda, and the Revolutionary State University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
  • “Workers’ Bodies in the Workers’ State: Prophylaxis and the Construction of Worker Identity” Festschrift for Alan K. Wildman. Slavica, 2009.
  • “Red Star/Black Lungs: Anti-Tobacco Campaigns in Twentieth-Century Russia,” Journal of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 21:1 (Fall 2006).
  • “A Revolutionary Home: Housekeeping and Social Duty in the 1920s,” Revolutionary Russia 17:1 (June 2004): 69-104.
  • “A Fertile Mother Russia: Pro-Natalist Propaganda in Revolutionary Russia,” The Journal of Family History 28:3 (July 2003): 411-442.

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Faculty Bio - Daniel Sutherland

Daniel Sutherland
  • Professor
  • Civil War, US Social/Cultural, Military

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Biography

Daniel E. Sutherland received his Ph.D. in history from Wayne State University in 1976. He taught at Wayne State University, Mercy College of Detroit, the University of Alabama, and McNeese State before coming to the University of Arkansas. His principal area of research in nineteenth-Century America. He has written eight books and edited five others. He has published over forty book chapters and articles in both popular magazines and scholarly journals. He has received over thirty honors, awards, and research grants. Five of his books have been selected by the History Book Club.

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  • A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War(University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
  • A Savage Contest: The Decisive Role of Guerillas in the American Cival War. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, forthcoming.
  • From Shiloh to Savannah: The Seventh Illinois Infantry in the Civil War, by Daniel Leib Ambrose; editor. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.
  • This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, editor with Michael Fellman and Lesley Jill Gordon. New York: Longman, 2002. Both hardback trade and paper textbook editions.
  • Civil War Arkansas: Beyond Battles and Leaders, co-editor with Anne J. Bailey. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Also in paperback.
  • Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front, editor. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999. A History Book Club selection. Also in paperback.
  • Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. A History Book Club Selection.
  • A Very Violent Rebel: The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House. editor. Knoxville: University of Tennesse Press, 1996.
  • The Emergence of Total War. Fort Worth: Ryan Place, 1996. Also in paperback
  • Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865. New York: Free Press, 1995. A History Book Club Selection. Pulitzer Prize nominee. Lincoln Prize finalist. Winner of Laney Prize, AASLH Certificate of Merit, and Douglas Southahll Freeman Prize. Paperback edition by Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 2nd ed.
  • Reminiscences of a Private: William E. Bevins of the First Arkansas Infantry. editor. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992. Also in paperback.
  • The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876. New York: HarperCollins, 1989. Also in paperback. Revised paperback ed. University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
  • The Confederate Carpetbaggers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. A History Book Club selection. Pulitzer Prize nominee. In second paperback edition.
  • Americans and Their Servants: Domestic Service in the United States, 1800-1920. Baton Rought: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

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Faculty Bio - Elliott West

Elliott West
  • Distinguished Professor
  • American West, American Indian

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Biography

Elliott West received his B.A. from the University of Texas (1967) and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado (1971). He joined the U of A faculty in 1979. Two of his books, Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far-Western Frontier (1989) and The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (1995) received the Western Heritage Award. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (1998) received five awards including the Francis Parkman Prize and PEN Center Award. In 1995 West was awarded the U of A Teacher of the Year and the Carnegie Foundation’s Arkansas Professor of the Year. In 2001 he received the Baum Faculty Teaching Award.

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  • The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

Faculty Bio - Jeannie Whayne

Jeannie Whayne
  • Professor
  • Southern US, Arkansas

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Biography

Jeannie Whayne received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1989. After teaching for one year at Western Washington University, she joined the U of A faculty in 1990. Whayne has published over a dozen articles and essays on Arkansas, African American, and Southern history. She has edited, authored, and co-authored a number of books, including A Whole Country in Commotion, edited with Patrick Williams and S. Charles Bolton, and Arkansas: A Narrative History, co-authored with Thomas DeBlack, George Sabo, and Morris Arnold. Her book, A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth Century, Arkansas, won the Arkansiana Prize. She recently completed a book on the Lee Wilson plantation in northeastern Arkansas, tentatively entitled Forging a Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Making of a Twentieth Century Plantation System. The book is a social, economic, and environmental history that traces the Wilson plantation through distinct phases and analyzes how it intersected with trends in plantation agriculture, race relations, and environmental changes. In addition to teaching Arkansas and Southern history courses, she frequently teaches Honors Historical Methods. Whayne has been a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and at the Carter Woodson Institute. She is immediate past president of the Conference of Historical Journals.

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Faculty Bio - Calvin White, Jr.

Calvin White, Jr.
  • Assistant Professor
  • Southern History, African-American History,
    Africa during the Colonial Period, American Religion

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Biography

Dr. White’s research focuses on the extent to which class, respectability, and the efforts of racial uplift intersected in the development of African Americans’ religious traditions and racial identity after emancipation in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta. He is especially interested in East African religious traditions and the connections between African American and African Pentecostals’ traditions. Dr. White is currently revising his manuscript They Danced and Shouted into Obscurity: A History of the Black Holiness Movement, 1897-1961. He is the recipient of several national fellowships. Most recently, Dr. White served as a Gilder-Lehrman Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.

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  • “In The Beginning There Stood Two: Arkansas and Mississippi Roots of the Black Holiness Movement,” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly (forthcoming Spring 2009).
  • “The Church of God in Christ and Mississippi” for The Mississippi Encyclopedia (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi). Edited by Ted Ownby and Charles Reagan Wilson, forthcoming.

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Faculty Bio - Patrick Williams

Patrick Williams
  • Associate Professor
  • 19c US, Political, South and Southwest US

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Biography

Patrick Williams received his B.A. from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He edits the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and is the author of Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction (2007). He has published articles in the Journal of Southern History and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and co-edited A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest (2005) with S. Charles Bolton and Jeannie Whayne. Williams has won Fulbright College’s Master Teacher Award. He also produces the History Department Newsletter each year.

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  • Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats After Reconstruction

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Faculty Bio - Rembrandt Wolpert

Rembrandt Wolpert
  • Professor
  • China (600 - 1300 A.D.), Performing Arts and Computational Analysis

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Biography

Rembrandt Wolpert comes from Sinology (M.A. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Ph.D. University of Cambridge, England) and Computer Science (M.Sc. University of Otago, New Zealand) to his research interests in historical sources for musicology and music in context in East Asia (and in particular 7th-to 13th-century China), in grammars (musical and "a-musical"), and in functional programming. Before joining the University of Arkansas in 2000 he held research and teaching positions in Sinology (Cambridge, England and Würzburg, Germany), in Social Anthropology (Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland), and was Ordinarius in Systematic Musicology and Ethnomusicology in the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He conducts field- and archive-work in China, Japan, and Europe.

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Faculty Bio - Randall Woods

Randall Woods
  • Distinguished Professor
  • 20c US, US Diplomatic

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Randall Woods received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas. In 1985 he was named John A. Cooper Professor of American History and in 1996 was promoted to Distinguished Professor. Woods has served as Associate Dean, Interim Dean, and Dean of Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. He has published seven books, most notably, Fulbright: A Biography (Cambridge, 1995), which was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and which won the Ferrell and Ledbetter Prizes. In 2006, the Free Press published LBJ: Architect of American Ambition. Prof. Woods was selected to be both Mary Ball Washington Distinguished Professor at University College, Dublin and the Fulbright 50th Anniversary Chair at the University of Bonn.

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