Associate Professor (2001)

Director, Virginia Center for Digital History

U.S. History (African-American & Southern)

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 2-4 pm, and by appointment

Office: 102 Minor Hall

Phone: (434) 924-8889

Fax: (434) 924-8820

Email: sfrenchvirginia.edu

Education

M.A. University of Virginia (1990)
Ph.D. University of Virginia (2000)

Publications, Awards, and Activities

"Mau-Mauing the Filmmakers: Should Black Power Take the Rap for Killing 'Nat Turner,' the Movie"?" in Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle, ed. Brian Ward (University Press of Florida, 2001)

"What is Social Memory?" Southern Cultures 2 (Fall 1995), a refereed journal published by the Duke University Press in conjunction with the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of the American South

"The Strange Career of Thomas Jefferson: Race and Slavery in American Memory, 1943-1993," (with Edward L. Ayers) in Jeffersonian Legacies (University Press of Virginia, 1993)

Current Research

I am co-director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute's Center for the Study of Local Knowledge (http://www.virginia.edu/cslk/) and principal investigator on several other grant-funded projects. My current teaching and research interests revolve around the theme of "Race and Place: African-American Life in the Jim Crow South."