Associate Professor (1997)

20th century American cultural history and the American South

Office Hours: Th 12:30-3:30

Office: 108 Levering Hall

Phone: (434) 924-6413

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: halevirginia.edu

Education

B.A. University of Georgia, 1986
M.A. University of Georgia, 1991
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1995

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Publications

Books

Rebel, Rebel: Why We Love Outsiders and the Effects of This Romance on Postwar American Culture and Politics (forthcoming)

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940. New York: Pantheon, 1998.

Recent Articles

“’Hear Me Talking to You’: Racial Rebellion from the Blues to the Folk Music Revival,” in Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., African Americans in Popular Culture, 1880-1940 (forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press)

“Black as Folk: The Folk Music Revival, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Romance of the Outsider,” in Joe Crespino and Matt Lassiter, eds. The End of the South (forthcoming from Princeton University Press)

“’My Political Beliefs Are Songs’: Pete Seeger in Cold War America,” in Kathleen Donohue, ed., Cold War America (forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press)

"’We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves’: Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain,” co-authored with Robert Jackson, in Rick Moreland, ed., Blackwell’s Companion to William Faulkner (London and New York: Blackwell, 2006)

“Whiteness in America,” a review essay for Blackwell’s Online History Journal, Compass

“Invisible Men: William Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and the Politics of Loving and Hating the South in the Civil Rights Era, or How does a Rebel Rebel?” in Donald Kartiganer, ed., William Faulkner and His Contemporaries (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2004)

“Riding on the Train: Segregation and the Problem of Middle Class Travelers” in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Second Edition, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

“Granite Stopped Time: The Stone Mountain Memorial and Representations of White Southern Identity” in Cynthia Mills, ed., Monuments to the Lost Cause (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003)

“Review of “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America,” an exhibit at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, May 1-December 21, 2002, Journal of American History (Fall 2002)

“On the Meaning of Progress: A Century of Southern Race Relations,” Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South (Spring 2001), special issue on the last century of southern history

Recent Book Reviews

Jacqueline Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2006) in Re-Thinking History, forthcoming

Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005) in Journal of Southern History (Summer 2007)

David Hackett Fischer, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) in American Historical Review (Spring 2006)

Mark Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005) in Journal of African American Studies, forthcoming

Patricia Sullivan, Freedom Writer: Letters From the Civil Rights Years (New York: Routledge, 2003) in The American Scholar (Winter 2004)

Recent Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

2006 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship

2006 College of Arts and Sciences Research Grant

2005 University of Virginia Summer Research Fellowship

2004 University of Virginia Summer Research Fellowship

2004 College of Arts and Sciences Research Grant

August 2002-May 2003 National Humanities Fellowship, Research Triangle, North Carolina

2002 University of Virginia Summer Research Fellowship

2001 Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, New York City

2001 University of Virginia Summer Research Fellowship

Current Research

Rebel, Rebel: Outsiders in America, 1945-2000.

We Shall Oversome Someday: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in America.