CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CURTIS

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1 CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CURTIS Professor of History Armstrong State University Hawes Hall 110A Abercorn Street Savannah, Georgia (C) (W) Education Emory University, Ph.D. History, 2002 Virginia Tech, M.A. History, 1997 Lynchburg College, College of Education Teachers Certificate, State Board of Education, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1995 University of South Carolina, B.A. History, 1986 Scholarship Publications Books Jefferson s Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies on the American South, April 2012) Chapters in Edited Collections Not a judicial act, yet a judicious one : Honor, Office and Democracy, in Essays on American Honor Culture, edited by John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette (forthcoming from University of South Carolina Press, 2016). Abolitionism versus Proslavery Forces in Conflict in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia, Volume 3: The Civil War Era, edited by Brain L. Johnson and Edwin J. Blum, (New York: Facts on File Publishing, 2010). Articles Codification in Virginia: Conway Robinson, John Mercer Patton and the Politics of Law Reform, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,117 (2009): Reconsidering Suffrage Reform in the Virginia Constitutional Convention, Journal of Southern History LXXIV (February 2008): Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Language of Republicanism in Virginia s House of Delegates, , Australian Journal of Legal History, 6 (2000), Review Essays Questions of Distinctiveness: Comparative Patterns of National Development, a review of Enrico Del Lago, Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005) for Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 39, No. 4, Fall Book Reviews Review of Watson W. Jennison, Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012) for the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall Review of Charles F. Hobson, St. George Tucker s Law Reports and Selected Papers, , Vols. 1-3, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013) for the Journal of American History, March 2014.

2 2 Review of Elizabeth D. Leonard, Lincoln s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011) for The Annals of Iowa. Review of Douglas Bradburn, The Citizenship Revolution: Politics & the Creation of the American Union, , (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2009) for Journal of Southern History, February Review of John Dinan, The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide, Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States, Number 42, (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006) for Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Summer Review of John B. Boles, ed., Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004) for H-Net Reviews, published on H-South and cross-posted, January 24, Review of Michael A. Ross, Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003) for The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 64, No.1, Winter Review of Russell L. Johnson, Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003) for Civil War History, Vol. 54, No. 4, December Review of In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln s Illinois, edited by Daniel W. Stowell (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002) for the Annals of Iowa, Vol. 63, No. 2, Spring Review of Roots of Secession: Slavery and Antebellum Virginia by William A. Link (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003) for the Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring Review of Repairing the March of Mars : The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, Edited by John Herbert Roper (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001) for the Military History of the West, Vol. 32, No. 2 Fall Contributions Judge William Daniel ( ), in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, volume 3, Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2006, Imprisonment for Debt, in the Dictionary of American History (3d edition), New York: Charles Scribner s Sons Reference Books. In Progress The Right of Visitation in British Colonial Churches: Case Histories from Virginia, Jamaica, New South Wales, and Cape Town (under review). A Question of Great Importance: Nullification, Slavery, and the Supreme Court (book manuscript). Rebuilding the Temple: Church Property Rights in the Disestablished South (book manuscript). Fellowships Faculty Fellow, Jonathan Jasper Wright Institute for the Study of African American History, Culture, and Policy, Claflin University, Jack Miller Center for Teaching America s Founding Principles and History, Summer Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 2008 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Fall 2006 Institute for Constitutional Studies 2005 Summer Seminar, Slavery and the Constitution, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., June 2005 Virginia Historical Society, Mellon Summer Research Fellowship, 2000, 2003, 2012 H. B. Earhart Foundation Fellowship, ,

3 3 Grants and Monetary Awards Jack Miller Center Programming Award Center for Excellence, Summer Research Grant, Claflin University, 2012 Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Iowa State, Summer Salary, 2005 Iowa State University, LAS Small Grants, , Brown Southern Studies Award, Frank Curtis Graduate Thesis Award, Virginia Tech, 1997 Dissertation Jefferson s Chosen People: Legal and Political Conceptions of the Freehold in the Old Dominion from Revolution to Reform, (Directed by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese) M.E. Bradford Award for the Best Dissertation in Southern Studies (2003) Conference Presentations Papers Presented Ecclesiastical Authority in the Anglican South: Challenges to Advowson Rights, presented at the Conference on Religion and American Life, King s College, London, February, Tom Watson and the Populist Reconstruction of Jeffersonian Agrarianism, presented at The Historical Society Conference, Columbia, SC, June, Thomas Jefferson, the Republican Revisions, and the Modernization of the Common Law, presented at the Jeffersonian Democracy in Theory and Practice roundtable, Princeton University, May 18-19, Church Property Rights in Disestablished Virginia, presented at the Australian-New Zealand Legal History Conference, Brisbane, December St. George Tucker and the Reception of the Common Law, presented at the American Society for Legal History Conference, Atlanta, November John Taylor of Caroline, George Tucker, and the Enclosure Movement in Virginia, presented at the Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, Columbia, SC, April The English Common Law and Private Ownership in Revolutionary Virginia, presented for the British Group on Early American History, Manchester, England, September The Liberty Loving Men of Kent: Historical Constructions of Private Ownership in Revolutionary Virginia, presented at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Huntington, Alabama, February Red Republicanism in Antebellum Virginia? The 1849 Inspector Controversy and the Politics of Law Reform, presented at the Virginia Forum, Winchester, Virginia, April British Influences on Dower Reform in Antebellum Virginia, presented at the Law s Empire Conference, Canadian Law and Society Meeting, British Columbia, June Suffrage Reform in Virginia s Constitutional Convention, presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April Jefferson s Vision Altered: Charles James Faulkner and the Legal Aspects of Agricultural Reform in the Shenandoah Valley, presented at the Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar, James Madison University, March Taking Notice of an Error: Historical Interpretations of Land Ownership in the Virginia Commonwealth. Presented at the American Society for Legal History Meeting, November America was not conquered by William the Norman: Constructing a Law of Land Ownership in the Virginia Commonwealth. Presented at the British and Irish Legal History Conference. July A Question of Great Importance: Nullification, Slavery, and the Marshall Court s Decision in Barron v. Baltimore (1833). Presented at the Law and Society Conference, June 2003.

4 4 James P. Holcombe s Sketches on the American Revolution: A Virginia Lawyer Examines the Causes of Revolution on the Eve of the Civil War. Presented at the Douglas Southall Freeman and Southern Intellectual History Conference, February Doubt... Seems to Have Arisen: Grand Juror Qualifications and Interpretations of the Freehold in Antebellum Virginia. Presented at the St. George Tucker Society Annual Meeting, Vanderbilt University, August Barron vs. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Presented at the conference on People and Places in Time: Baltimore s Changing Landscapes, September Can these be the Sons of Their Fathers? A New Look at the Debate on Slave Property in the Virginia House of Delegates, December January Presented at the SHEAR Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, July Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Language of Republicanism in Virginia s House of Delegates, Presented at the International Land and Freedom Conference, Newcastle, Australia, July Comments Delivered Panel: Religion and Culture: Transnational Perspectives at the Georgia Association for Historians Annual Meeting, February Panel: South Carolina Slavery from the Revolution to 1822, at the South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting, March Panel: Lacy Ford s Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South, at the St. George Tucker Society Meeting, July Panel: Catholics in the Countryside, at the Agricultural History Society Meeting, June Panel: Political Philosophy and American Political Development, at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April Pete Daniel, Defending the Chemical Treadmill: Law and Liability before Silent Spring, at the Atlanta Seminar in the Comparative History of Labor, Industry, Technology and Society (SCHLITS), February, Public Lectures Sherman and Savannah, Lectures for The Learning Center, Senior Citizens Inc., October- November, 2015 Teaching Teaching Experience Professor of History, Armstrong State University, present Associate Professor of History, Claflin University, Assistant Professor of History, Claflin University, Assistant Professor of History, Iowa State University, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of West Georgia, Teaching Awards Nominee, Governor s Teaching Award, Claflin University, 2010 SGA Pillar of Strength Award, Claflin University, 2008 Dean s Teaching Fellowship, Emory University, Distinguished Service Award (Students with Disabilities), West Georgia, 2001 Graduate Students PhD. Students and dissertation topics Rick Woten (Iowa State, 2009) Dissertation: Navigating Internal Improvement: Rivers, Canals, and State Formation in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

5 5 MA Theses Supervised Kevin Howe, Patent Rights in Living Material: The Evolution of Intellectual Property Rights in the Field of Biotechnology (2007) Rick Woten, Navigating the era of internal improvements: The Des Moines River Improvement Lands Grant (2005) Robert Welch, Tenancy Considered: the Life of Henry C. Vanzant (2006) Tim Casady, Dr. Jonathan Letterman and the Reform of Civil War Medical Practices (2006) Graduate Seminars Readings in America s Civil War Research in Nineteenth-Century America Agrarian Reform Movements Undergraduate Honor s Thesis Directed Donna Akuamoah, The Formation of a Globalized Identity: A Case Study of Benazir Bhutto and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Claflin, 2008) Jalisa Barnes, The Effects of the Vietnam War on the African American Family (Claflin 2011) Jasmine Benjamin, Black Republican Congressmen and the Language of Race (Claflin 2013) Takiah Corbett, A Comparative Study of the Religious Experiences of African Slaves in Cuba (Claflin, 2011) Katie Gidlewski, The Doctrine of Discovery: The Consequences of Jurisprudential Development on Cherokee Removal (Iowa State, 2007) Select Undergraduate Course Titles Creation of American Law Slavery in the Americas American Revolution The Rural South Slavery and the Sectional Crisis Civil War and Reconstruction Nineteenth-Century America Historical Methods South Carolina History American Political Thought Teaching/Mentoring Programs UNCF/Mellon Undergraduate Fellow Mentor, Claflin University Preparing Future Faculty Mentor, Iowa State Additional Teaching Experience Social Studies Teacher, William Campbell High School, Naruna, VA, Life Science/Social Studies Teacher, William Campbell Middle School, Naruna, VA, Administration and Service Public Service Governor s Appointee, South Carolina Commission on Archives and History, Administrative Positions Head, Department of History, Armstrong State University, present Chair, Department of History and Sociology, Claflin University, Chair, Faculty Development Committee, Claflin University,

6 6 Chair, Institutional Review Board, Claflin University, Director of Graduate Education, MA Program, Iowa State University Committees Visionary Leadership Institute Planning Committee, Claflin University, Faculty and Staff Advisory Council on Institutional Advancement, Claflin University, Quality Enhancement Plan Implementation Committee, Claflin University, Assessment Committee, Claflin University, Quality Enhancement Plan Committee, Claflin University, Faculty Development Committee, Claflin University, SACS Steering Committee, Claflin University, Curriculum Development/Program Initiatives Visionary Leadership Institute, Claflin University, 2011 Panther STEPS, First Year Experience, Claflin University (implemented Fall 2011) Social Sciences Research Initiative, Claflin University, (ongoing) Politics and Justice Studies Degree Program, Claflin University (implemented Fall 2009) Senior Capstone Research Experience, Claflin University (implemented Fall 2010) Rural and Agricultural History Graduate Program Revisions, Iowa State, 2004 Teaching Constitutional History, Supreme Court Historical Society Workshop, Washington, D.C., February, 2001 Virtual Jamestown Website Planning Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia, June, 1997 Community Service Events Political Commentator, WIS TV, Columbia, SC Election Night Coverage (November 2008) Governor Sanford Affair Coverage (July 2009) 2012 Presidential Debates (October 2012) Feature Article, Mid-term Election Analysis, Times and Democrat, October 1, 2010 Presentation to the Des Moines Civil War Roundtable, October 2004 Academic Service Manuscript Reviews Cambridge University Press Louisiana State University Press University of Nebraska Press Anonymous Reader/Article Reviews Article Reviews for Journal of Southern History, Annals of Iowa, American Nineteenth Century History, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Assessment Evaluations Capstone Seminar Evaluator for Department of History, Virginia Tech (2006) Professional Service President, St. George Tucker Society Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, Principal Academic Affiliations American Historical Association, American Society for Legal History, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Southern Historical Association, Society for Historians of the Early Republic, St. George Tucker Society, Virginia Historical Society, Supreme Court Historical Society

7 7 Professional Consulting Expert Witness on Property Law for the law firms of Winston and Strawn, and Gammon and Gammon in the case of The Episcopal Church v. Truro Church, et al. (2011) Other Professional Experience Secondary School Teacher, Campbell County (Virginia) Schools, Infantry Officer, United States Marine Corps,