BIOGRAPHY 
Education
Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi [history], August, 1999.
Dissertation: "Leonidas Polk and Episcopal Identity: An Evangelical Experiment in the Mid-nineteenth Century South."
Adviser: William K. Scarborough
M.A., East Tennessee State University [history], 1994.
Thesis: "Morristown-Hamblen County and the Tennessee Valley Authority: The Modernization of an Appalachian Community."
Adviser: Margaret Ripley Wolfe
B.A., Carson-Newman College [major in history and minor in Greek], 1990.
A.A.S, Thomas Nelson Community College [mechanical technology], 1986.
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of History, Georgia Southwestern State University, 2001 to present.
Assistant Professor of History, Brewton-Parker College, 2000-2001.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi,
1999-2000.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi,
1995 to 1999.
Adjunct faculty, Department of History, William Carey College, 1996 to 1998.
Adjunct faculty, Department of History, Carson-Newman College, 1993 to 1994.
Public History
Director of the Southwest Georgia Oral History Center, Americus, Georgia, 2006-
Research and editorial assistant, History Office, NASA John C. Stennis Space Center,
1994-95.
COURSES
American History I & II American Colonial History
World History I & II The Study of History
Religion and the American South Historiography
Introduction to Historical Methodology Old South
The Reformation America and the Cold War
U.S. Social History Civil War
New South
CURRENT PROJECTS
POW History
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk,
Mercer University Press, 2006
Journal Articles
“Race, Repatriation, and Galvanized Rebels: Union POWs and the Exchange Question in the Deep South Prison Camps of the South.”
Civil War History Vol. 53, No. 2
June 2007, 117-140.
“Soldiers of the Pen: The Literary Careers of Richard Taylor, John Bell Hood, and W. H.
Tunnard.” American Nineteenth Century History Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2006, 281-298.
“Post Cold War Religious Culture: Southern Baptist Interpretations of the First Gulf War." Perspectives in Religious Studies Vol. 31, Fall 2004, 291-310.
“Lost Cause Motherhood: Southern Women Writers and the Transmission of Confederate
Culture in Louisiana,” Louisiana History Vol. XLIV, Summer 2003, 275-300.
“Inside the Mind of a Johnny Reb: The Civil War Letters of John Cato,” Journal of
Mississippi History Vol. 64, Spring 2002, 33-46.
Columns and Newspaper Articles
“Gulf Wars Tweak Southern Baptist Thinking,” April 2, 2003 in EthicsDaily.com,
an imprint of the Baptist Center for Ethics,http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=2375
Encyclopedia Articles, Book Reviews & Periodical Reviews
Review of Amy Murrell Taylor’s The Divided Family in Civil War America, in Louisiana
History Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter 2007, 116-118.
Review of Charles W. Sanders, Jr.’s While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons
of the Civil War, in Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol. 90, Winter 2007, 579-582.
Review of Peter Carmichael’s The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War,
and Reunion, in Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol. 90, Spring 2006, 137-139.
Review of Robert G. Evans, ed. The 16th Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and
Reminiscences in H-NET BOOK REVIEW, Published by H-CivWar@h-net.msu.edu (May 2004).
Review of Marilyn Mayer Culpepper’s All Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil
War and Reconstruction in Civil War Book Review (spring 2003),
http://www.cwbr.com/civilwarbookreview/
Review of Mark Newman’s Getting Right With God: Southern Baptists and
Desegregation, 1945-1995 in Whitsitt Journal, 9 (spring 2002), 20-22.
Review of Victoria E. Bynum, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War,
in Civil War Book Review, 4 (spring 2002), 35.
Review of Dan R. Frost, Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in
the New South, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, 85 (fall 2001), 503-506.
"Leonidas Polk," Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, eds. David S. Heidler and
Jeanne T. Heidler, (2000).
Review of Steven E. Woodworth, Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and
Chattanooga Campaigns, in Journal of Mississippi History, winter 1999.
Review of Anita Shafer Goodstein, "A Rare Alliance: African American and White
Women in the Tennessee Elections of 1919 and 1920," in Mid-America, An
Historical Review, winter 1999.
Review of Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt,
in Southern Historian, spring 1999.
Review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage ed., Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South,
in The Alabama Review, January 1999.
Editing
Copy Editor, Exploring the Sources of World Civilization 1650 to present, published by
McGraw-Hill Companies for the History Department of the University of Southern Mississippi, 1997.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
American History
Latin America/Caribbean World
Europe 1870 to present
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