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1 JEFF FORRET (409) (office) Lamar University Department of History P.O. Box Beaumont, TX Employment Leland Best Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Lamar University, 2016-present Professor, History Department, Lamar University, 2015-present Associate Professor, History Department, Lamar University, Assistant Professor, History Department, Lamar University, Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, James Madison University, Adjunct Instructor, History Department, UNC Charlotte, 2003 Adjunct Instructor, Vance-Granville Community College, 2003 Lecturer, History Department, University of Delaware, Adjunct Instructor, Wesley College, Current Writing & Research Williams Gang: A Slave Trader, His Cargo, and Justice in the Old South (under consideration) Empires of Slavery: The United States, the Low Countries, and Human Bondage, Publications Books Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015). New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015), co-edited with Christine E. Sears. Slavery in the United States, a volume in the Issues and Controversies in American History textbook series (New York: Facts on File, 2012). Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006; paperback, 2010). Articles The Limits of Mastery: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Baptist Church Discipline, American Nineteenth Century History 18, no. 1 (2017): The Murder of James Carradus and the Case of Commonwealth v. John (1839), Southern Quarterly 54 (Winter 2017): Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic : The Census, Slaves, and Disability in the Late Antebellum South, Journal of Southern History 82 (August 2016): Before Angola: Enslaved Prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Louisiana History 54 (Spring 2013): Slaves, Sex and Sin: Adultery, Forced Separation and Baptist Church Discipline in Middle Georgia, Slavery & Abolition 33 (September 2012): The Underground Economy, in Major Problems in the History of the American South, vol. 1, 3 rd ed., ed. Sally G. McMillen, Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Paul D. Escott, and David R. Goldfield (Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage, 2012), Forret, 1

2 Conflict and the Slave Community : Violence among Slaves in Upcountry South Carolina, Journal of Southern History 74 (August 2008): Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas, Journal of Southern History 70 (November 2004): Slave-Poor White Violence in the Antebellum Carolinas, North Carolina Historical Review 81 (April 2004): The United States Branch Mint at Charlotte: Superintendents, Spoils, and the Second Party System, , North Carolina Historical Review 77 (April 2000): Slave Labor in North Carolina s Antebellum Gold Mines, North Carolina Historical Review 76 (April 1999): Book Chapters The Prisoner... Thinks a Great Deal of Her Virtue : Enslaved Female Honor, Shame, and Infanticide in Antebellum Virginia, in The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity, ed. John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017), A Slave That Will Steal from a Slave, Is Called Mean as Master : Thefts and Violence inside Southern Slave Quarters, in New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison, ed. Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015), He Was No Man Attall?: Slave Men, Honor, Violence, and Masculinity in the Antebellum South, in Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, , ed. Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011), African Americans and Gold Mining in North Carolina, in Gold in History, Geology, and Culture: Collected Essays, ed. Richard F. Knapp and Robert M. Topkins (Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2001), Encyclopedia Entries 19 th -Century Slavery, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, ed. Lynn Dumenil (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Violence Within Southern Slave Culture, in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson, vol. 19: Violence, ed. Amy Louise Wood (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Early Republic and Antebellum United States, in Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas, ed. Robert Paquette and Mark Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Alcohol, in Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America, ed. Orville Vernon Burton (Detroit: The Gale Group, 2008). Conflict Between Slaves, in Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America, ed. Orville Vernon Burton (Detroit: The Gale Group, 2008). Slaves and Poor Whites, in Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America, ed. Orville Vernon Burton (Detroit: The Gale Group, 2008). Sidebar: Andrew S. Rhodes, in Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America, ed. Orville Vernon Burton (Detroit: The Gale Group, 2008). Book Reviews & Review Essays Andrew J. Torget, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, (2015), Journal of Economic History 77, no. 2 (2017): Forret, 2

3 Ira Berlin, The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States (2015), Slavery & Abolition 37 (December 2016): Dea H. Boster, African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South, (2013), Journal of Southern History 81 (February 2015): Emily West, Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South (2012), Journal of American History 100 (December 2013): Damian Alan Pargas, The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South (2010), Louisiana History 54 (Spring 2013): Max Grivno, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, (2012), Journal of the Early Republic 33 (Spring 2013): Margaret Abruzzo, Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism (2011), Civil War History 58 (December 2012): John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason, eds., Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation (2011), North Carolina Historical Review 89 (October 2012): 445. Daniel L. Fountain, Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, (2010), Slavery & Abolition 33 (March 2012): Calvin Schermerhorn, Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (2011), Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 120, no. 1 (2012): M. Thomas Inge and Ed Piacentino, eds., Southern Frontier Humor (2010), Southern Quarterly 48 (Winter 2011): Sue Eakin, Solomon Northup s Twelve Years a Slave and Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (2007), Louisiana History 50 (Fall 2009): Timothy James Lockley, Welfare and Charity in the Antebellum South (2007), Louisiana History 50 (Summer 2009): Steven Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (2005), and David L. Lightner, Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War (2006), Journal of Southern History 74 (May 2008): Daina Ramey Berry, Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (2007), Georgia Historical Quarterly 92 (Spring 2008): David Brown, Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South (2006), Slavery & Abolition 29 (January 2008): Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (2007), Civil War Book Review 10 (Winter 2008). Mark M. Smith, ed., Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt (2005), North Carolina Historical Review 83 (July 2006): Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (2005), Maryland Historical Magazine 101 (Spring 2006): Sarah W. Tracy, Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition (2005), History: Reviews of New Books 34 (Fall 2005): 6. Jonathan H. Earle, Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, (2004), North Carolina Historical Review 82 (April 2005): Forret, 3

4 Stanley Harrold, The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004), North Carolina Historical Review 81 (July 2004): Wilma A. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South (2003), and Dunaway, The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (2003), Maryland Historical Magazine 98 (Fall 2003): Back Cover Blurbs/Endorsements Keri Leigh Merritt, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (2017). Randal L. Hall, A Rape in the Early Republic: The Trial of John Deskins and Sidney Hanson in 1806 Virginia (2017). Sergio A. Lussana, My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South (2016). Lydia Plath and Sergio Lussana, eds., Black and White Masculinity in the American South, (2009). Teaching Experience Courses Taught American History, and 1877-Present (traditional and online); Historical Research; Capstone; Colonial America; American Revolution & Early Republic; Age of Jackson; Age of Lincoln; The Old South; Southern Culture; American Slavery; Slavery & Gender in the American South; Race & Sex in America; Sex & Crime in America; Drinking, Gambling, & Violence in Early America; Contemporary American Culture; Introduction to Latin American History; Colonial Latin America; Colonial Latin American Social History M.A. Committees Supervising: Chris Pirnie (2015), Bill Cummings (2008) Reader: Alecia Long, Collin Rohrbaugh (2016), Bruce Hodge (2012), Beverly Williams (2008), Britton Peveto (2006) Outside Reader: Maria Montalvo (Rice University), Dean Smithwick (UNC Charlotte) Conference Presentations Keynote speaker, The Strange, True Tale of the Williams Negroes : The Domestic Slave Trade, the Law, and Black Incarceration in the American South, at the 24 th Annual Meeting of the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH), University of Warwick, Warwick, England, October 2017 (upcoming). Keynote speaker, Resurrecting William H. Williams, an Unabashedly Awful Man, at the 3 rd Annual Gateway History Conference, Clinton, Iowa, April Deep in the Weeds: Slave Traders, Banks, and Reciprocity in Antebellum Maryland, at the 110 th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), New Orleans, Louisiana, April Violence as a Category of Analysis: A Framework for Reassessing the Slave Community Paradigm, at the Beyond the Slave Community and Resistance Paradigms: Alternative Approaches to the Social Lives of Bondpeople in the Atlantic World conference, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, March The State v. William H. Williams: Enslaved Convicts, the Domestic Slave Trade, and Louisiana Law, at the 58 th Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association (LHA), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March Forret, 4

5 Commentator, panel Corporal Punishment, Capital Punishment, and Performance in the 19 th - Century South, at the 108 th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), St. Louis, Missouri, April Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic : Slaves, Disability, and Paternalism in the Late Antebellum South, at a special conference held by the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH), Rice University, Houston, Texas, April He Hurt Me By... Trying to Get It in Me So Deep : Slave Rapists, Enslaved Female Honor, and Community in the Old Dominion, at the Rethinking Honour & Community in the Antebellum South Symposium, part of the 19 th Annual Conference of the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, October Chair, panel Poor Whites and Poverty: Labor and Law in the Old South, at the 77 th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association (SHA), Baltimore, Maryland, October Slaves, Sex, & Sin: Adultery, Forced Separation, and Baptist Church Discipline in Middle Georgia, at the Charting New Courses in the History of Slavery and Emancipation Conference, Long Beach, Mississippi, March The Prisoner... Thinks a Great Deal of Her Virtue : Enslaved Women, Murder, and Gender Identity in Antebellum Virginia, at the 3 rd Annual New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February He Was No Man Attall?: Slave Men, Honor, Violence, and Masculinity in the Antebellum South, at the Masculinity in the American South History Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick, Warwick, England, June Slave Men, the Family, and Violence in the Antebellum South, at the 101 st Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), New York, New York, March Inside the Internal Economy: Slaves, Property, and Violence in the Antebellum South, at the 29 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Worcester, Massachusetts, July Conflict and the Slave Community : Violence among Slaves in Upcountry South Carolina, at the Houston Area Southern Historians (HASH) meeting, Houston, Texas, January Poor White Women and Slave Men, Work and Sexual Assault: The Indiscretions of Rachael Holman, Anderson District, South Carolina, at the 15 th Annual Graduate History Forum, Charlotte, North Carolina, March Deal, Trade, and Traffick : The Slave-Poor White Economy of the Antebellum Carolinas, at the 68 th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association (SHA), Baltimore, Maryland, November Rumors, Rebellion, & Reaction: Slave Resistance in North Carolina s Gold Mines and the Slave Miners Conspiracy of 1831, at the 10 th Annual Graduate History Forum, Charlotte, North Carolina, April Planter Hegemony and the Outsider in North Carolina s Antebellum Gold Mining Industry, at the 9 th Annual Graduate History Forum, Charlotte, North Carolina, April Experience of the Union Volunteer: Asa B. Smith, the 97 th Ohio, and the Struggle for Chattanooga, at the Phi Alpha Theta 74 th Biennial Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, December Forret, 5

6 Public Presentations Race, Wrongful Convictions, and Black Incarceration in American History, Cardinal Conversations, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, February 2017 (upcoming). Williams Gang: A Slave Trader, His Cargo, and Justice in the Old South, Purchased Lives traveling museum exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana, September 2017 (upcoming). The Domestic Slave Trade: Remembrance and Reincarnation, The Progressive Democrats of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas, July Williams Gang: A Slave Trader, His Cargo, and Justice in the Old South, Purchased Lives traveling museum exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, Bunkie, Louisiana, January William H. Williams, the Domestic Slave Trade, and the Law, Colonial Dames XVII, Beaumont, Texas, January William H. Williams: Slave Trader, Texas Governor s School, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, June From the Bottom Up: Meanings of the American Revolution for Poor Whites, Women, and Blacks, Paul Revere Chapter of the Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution meeting, Beaumont, Texas, March Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic : A Disability History of Southern Slavery, , Academic Enhancement Workshop, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, November 2013, March Slavery and the Bible, Spindletop Unitarian Church, Beaumont, Texas, January Historical Writing, Warren High School, Warren, Texas, January Fugitive Slaves, the Constitution, and the Civil War, Constitution Day 2011, Lamar Institute of Technology, Beaumont, Texas, September The Electoral College: Why? Constitution Day 2007, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, September Debates over Slavery at the Constitutional Convention, Constitution Day 2006, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, September Fort Delaware in Area Newspapers, , Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation, Dover, Delaware, January Media Appearances Online roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (2017), in Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) (forthcoming). Interview on Slave against Slave, in Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), Oct. 6, Interview (live) on Slave against Slave, Top of Mind with Julie Rose, Brigham Young University Radio, Dec. 3, Interview on Race Relations at the Margins, C-SPAN3, American History TV, Feb. 5, Interview on Race Relations at the Margins, C-SPAN2, BookTV, Feb. 4, Featured guest (live), The Jack Pieper Show, KSET AM 1300, Beaumont, Texas, Sept. 13, Forret, 6

7 Other Professional Activities Chair, Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2018 Chair, C. Vann Woodward Award Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2017 Co-moderator, Digital Seminar Room, H-Slavery, Advisory Board, H-Slavery, Volunteer, Mentoring Committee, Southern Association for Women Historians, Member, Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2013, 2015 Member, Program Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2014 External reviewer for promotion and tenure, University of Texas Permian Basin, 2011 Anonymous reader, Bedford/St. Martin s, Cambridge University Press, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Hackett Publishing, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of Florida Studies, Journal of Social History, Journal of Southern History, Louisiana History, Oxford University Press, The Prison Journal, Routledge, University Press of Florida, University Press of Kentucky Consultant, Teacher s Discovery, Slavery in the U.S., Research Grants External National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2016 ($6000) William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Grant, American Society for Legal History, 2015 ($5000) Travel grant, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, 2008 ($1000) Travel grant, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, 2005 ($1000) Internal Faculty Development Leave Grant, Lamar University, Fall 2017 ($5000) Travel stipend, Distinguished Faculty Research Fellowship, Lamar University, 2016 ($5000) Travel stipend, University Scholar Award, Lamar University, 2016 ($5000) Faculty Development Leave Grant, Lamar University, Summer 2016 ($5000) Faculty Development Leave Grant, Lamar University, Fall 2013 ($5000) Faculty Development Leave Grant, Lamar University, Fall 2009 ($5000) Research Enhancement Grant, Lamar University, ($5000) Faculty Development Leave Grant, Lamar University, Summer 2008 ($5000) Research Enhancement Grant, Lamar University, ($5000) Administrative Experience Director, graduate program, History Department, Lamar University, Fall 2008-present Acting department chair, History Department, Lamar University, Summers , Fall 2014 Service Lamar University Departmental Director, Graduate Program, Graduate Studies Committee, ; (chair), Technology/Webpage Committee (chair), Core Curriculum (History 1301/1302) Committee, Library Committee, Student of the Month Committee, Forret, 7

8 Departmental Advisory Committee, , , American Colonial/British Empire Search Committee, 2016 Public History Search Committee (chair), Department Promotion & Tenure Committee, , Acting Department Chair, Summers , Fall 2014 African/20 th -century African-American Search Committee (chair), 2011, 2014 Judge, History Day, Member, Department Chair Search Committee, , Member, American History Search Committee, Member, European History Search Committee, Co-Sponsor, Phi Alpha Theta, College or University University Promotion & Tenure Committee, , Sustainability Committee, Reader, Lamar Journal of the Humanities, College Promotion & Tenure Committee, , Graduate Council, 2015 Academic Lecture Committee, , 2015 Outstanding Researcher/Teacher Committee, College Tenure Committee, Faculty advisor, College Democrats, Department rep, Cultural Awareness & Diversity Committee, Faculty Senate, 2006, Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Committee, 2006, Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs Search Committee, 2009 Judge Joe Fisher Lecture Committee, Arts & Sciences Council, Arts & Sciences Strategic Steering Committee, Student Subcommittee, James Madison University Technical Advisory Committee, Judge, Carlton B. Smith Prize, 2005 Judge, History Day, individual media category, 2004, 2005 Co-Facilitator, Digital Potluck, technology workshop series for history faculty, 2004 Faculty Commentator, Phi Alpha Theta & Madison Historians Film Series, 2003 Awards & Distinctions Winner, 18 th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, 2016, for Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South ($25,000) Finalist, 1 st Annual Harriet Tubman Book Prize, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, 2016, for Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South Distinguished Faculty Research Fellowship, Lamar University, 2016 University Scholar Award, Lamar University, 2016 Honorable Mention, 40 th Annual American Publishers Award for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE), U.S. History category, 2016, for Slave against Slave: Plantation Forret, 8

9 Violence in the Old South Liberty Bell Award, Paul Revere Chapter of the Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 2015 Bosley-Warnock Fellowship, University of Delaware, 2002 University Competitive Fellowship, University of Delaware, Alumni Graduate Award in History for the best seminar paper, University of Delaware, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Graduate School s Master s Thesis Award in the School of Arts and Humanities, 2000 Stewart Fellowship, University of Delaware, , 2001 Best in-school paper presented at the 10 th Annual Graduate History Forum, UNC Charlotte, st Annual K. David Patterson Memorial Prize, graduate division, UNC Charlotte, 1997 Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History, St. Ambrose University Chapter Professional Memberships Southern Historical Association (SHA) Organization of American Historians (OAH) Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) Houston Area Seminar in History (HASH) Education Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2003 M.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1998 B.A., St. Ambrose University, 1995 Forret, 9

University of Michigan, Ph.D., American History, University of Michigan, M.A., American History, 1995

University of Michigan, Ph.D., American History, University of Michigan, M.A., American History, 1995 Jonathan Daniel Wells, Ph. D. Professor of History in the Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies and History Director, Residential College University of Michigan jonwells@umich.edu Office: B514