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Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2017 – PhD, History, University of Georgia Dissertation: “Root Diggers and Herb Gatherers: The Rise and Fall of the Botanical Drug Industry in Southern Appalachia.” Areas of expertise: environmental history, agricultural history, Appalachian South, New South, African history. Committee members: John Inscoe (advisor), Shame Hamilton, Timothy Cleaveland, and Kathryn Newfont (University of Kentucky). 2012 –…

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Teaching Experience

College-Level Instructor-of-Record 2018-Present – Assistant Professor of History, Dalton State College. Courses taught: HIST 2111: American History to 1877, and HIST 2112: American History since 1877. August 2017-Present – Lecturer, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Courses currently teaching: “Research and Writing in History” and “American History Since 1865” Courses, spring 2018: “Appalachian History” and “Research and Writing…

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Publications

“Community and the Commons: Fence Laws, Land, and Identity in Postbellum Appalachia,” in Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart, eds., Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the Nineteenth-Century American South (April, 2019, UGA Press). “Ginseng, China, and he Transformation of the Ohio Valley, 1783-1840,” Ohio Valley History, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Fall 2017),…

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Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures

“The Great War in Northwest Georgia,” presented to the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society, Dalton, Ga., Nov. 11, 2018.  “Using Digital History in the Classroom: Cades Cove Museum of Environmental History,” Instructional Excellence Conference, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, May 9, 2018. “Hunting Lady’s Slipper: The Origins of the Botanical Drug Trade in Southern Appalachia,” invited lecture, Lady’s Slipper…

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Honors and Awards

2017 – Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Georgia History Department 2015-2016 – Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Gardens, and Library, Winterthur, DE 2015-2016 – Exploratory Research Grant, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE 2016-2017 – Dooley Award, University of Georgia History Department. 2015-2016 –Graduate Research Award, Willson Center, University of Georgia 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 – Amanda and Greg…

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Related Academic Service

2017 – Volunteer Judge, National History Day Regional Competition, Athens, GA. 2016 – Advanced Placement U.S. History exam grader. 2014-present – Administrator and primary contributor to the blog, Southern Highlander (thesouthernhighlander.org), which explores the environmental and natural history of Appalachia. June-July, 2015 – Intern, T.R.R. Cobb House, an antebellum museum in Athens, Ga.  Wrote lesson…

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