SHA 2026 Panel-Finder

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1	First Name	Last Name	Role	Institution	I am looking to	topic keywords	short description	email address	twitter

2	Elizabeth	Herbin-Triant	Faculty	Amherst College	Any Role	slavery, abolitionism, segregation, family history	Happy to chair; could also present on family history
3	Erica	Price	Ph.D. Candidate	Arizona State	Chair	digital history, digital humanities, New Orleans, environmental history, water, disease	finishing my dissertation on the political economy of water in New Orleans, with a digital mapping project as a supplementary resource	ericaanneprice@gmail.com	ericaanneprice
4	Jayme	Rawls	M.A. Student	Arkansas State University	Present	Lost Cause, education, South, World War II	I am part of a developing panel on Lost Cause and education. We are currently looking for one more panelist.	jayme.rawls@smail.astate.edu
5	Adam	Domby	Faculty	Auburn University	Any Role	Civil War, Reconstruction, historical memory, Lost Cause, 19th Century South, African American memory,		domby@auburn.edu
6	Allie	Lopez	Postdoc	Baylor University	Present	Jim Crow, civil rights, farming, agriculture, rural South	Would like to present a chapter of my dissertation on agricultural extension in rural Alabama during the civil rights era	Allie_Lopez1@baylor.edu
7	Mauricio	Castro	Faculty	Centre College	Comment	Latino, immigration, refugee, Cuban, Florida
8	Tom	Zoellner	Faculty	Chapman University	Any Role	Civil War, Reconstruction, Convict Leasing, Progressive Era, Contraband Camps. Atlanta
9	Christopher	Ward	Faculty	Clayton State University	Any Role	European History, East Asian History, environmental history (including US)
10	Andrew	Baker	Faculty	Clemson University	Present	South Carolina, Politics, Hurricanes and natural disasters, 20th c.
11	Jessica	Brabble	Ph.D. Candidate	College of William & Mary	Present	20th century US South, public health, eugenics, agriculture	I am working on a dissertation that looks at connections between eugenics and agriculture in the first half of the 20th century	jmbrabble@wm.edu
12	Mark	Cheathem	Faculty	Cumberland University	Any Role	Early Republic/antebellum South, U.S. presidency (esp. Andrew Jackson to James K. Polk), political culture	I am interested in chairing or commenting.
13	Cassandra	Hawkins	PhD Candidate	Emory University	Present	Georgia, Education, Lost Cause, Religion, post Civil War	I am writing on how theologies and religious practices that upheld white supremacist and patriarchal social structures shaped the early public school system and historical narratives in GA	cehawki@emory.edu
14	Kirsten	Wood	Faculty	Florida International University	Any Role	enslaved people, joy, pleasure, early 19th century; taverns, early 19th century, and travel, or domesticity, or enslaved people, or politics, or economic activities	Happy to chair and/or comment; can also do a paper related to ongoing joy/pleasure work or taverns research.
15	Sasha	Wells	Ph.D Student	Florida Interntional University	Present	Atlantic World, Enslavement, Caribbean, Colonial Geography / Borders, Marronage, Social History	Starting to working on an aspect of my dissertation which focuses on enslaved bodies being still and in motion to and from the mid-18th and early-19th century Bahamas.	swell031@fiu.edu	_sashiee
16	Andrew	Frank	Faculty	Florida State University	Any Role	Native South, Florida	I am working on the long Indigenous history of Florida	afrank@fsu.edu
17	Jennifer	Mills	PhD Student	George Mason University	Present	Gilded Age and Progressive labor history	I'm doing research on violent strike breaking during the late 1800s in Thibodaux, LA	jmills31@gmu.edu
18	Felicity M.	Turner	Faculty	Georgia Southern University	Comment	Gender, Sexuality, Women's history, Crime, Punishment; Reproductive Justice		fturner@georgiasouthern.edu
19	Bob	Hutton	Faculty	Glenville State University	Chair	Appalachia, Gilded Age & Prog era, labor, capitalism, environmental history
20	Aaron	Jacobs	Post-doc	Harvard University	Any Role	Reconstruction memory and the history of the Jim crow era; racial violence; cultures of performance and Black opposition to revival of Ku Klux Klan		aaron_jacobs@fas.harvard.edu
21	Don	Zimmerman	Faculty	Indian River State College	Chair	Florida, Race/Anti-Black Violence, Fraternalism, Jim Crow era	Currently working on a manuscript that examines Freemasonry's battle with race in Jim Crow Florida.	dzimmerm@irsc.edu
22	Paul	Beezley	Faculty	Jacksonville State University	Any Role	New South, Gilded Age/Progressive Era, American Cultural History - esp World's Fairs, Deathway
23	Jennifer	Gross	Faculty	Jacksonville State University	Any Role	19th Century South, American Civil War and Reconstruction, Women and Gender	I am happy to chair or comment on a panel if needed.
24	Alexandria	Currier	Prospective Grad Student	Kennesaw State University	Present	U.S. Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History, 20th Century	My research primarily focuses on U.S. foreign policy (late 20th Century). I am hoping to present a project on U.S. foreign policy with Afghanistan.	AJCurrier27@gmail.com
25	Tim	Galsworthy	Faculty	Lincoln Bishop University	Present	Southern politics, South Carolina, Republican Party, Eisenhower, 1960s, civil rights	Working on a paper/article about Dwight Eisenhower's 1962 apperance in South Carolina, using this to assess his relationship with southern Republicanism	tim.galsworthy@lincolnbishop.ac.uk
26	Julian	Flesch	Ph.D. Student	Louisiana State University	Present	Civil War Memory, Lost Cause, Intellectual history, US South, 19th and 20th century	My research focuses on the role of intellectuals in both shaping and opposing the Lost Cause in the South and nationwide from the end of the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement.	jflesc1@lsu.edu
27	Caleb	Roark	Ph.D. Student	Louisiana State University	Present	urban South, New Orleans, free and enslaved labor, immigration, politics, 19th century	My research examines the New Orleans Mechanics' Society and mechanics' riots to provide a fresh perspective for understanding the urban South's economic and political development.	croark4@lsu.edu
28	Julia	Nitz	Faculty	Martin Luther University	Present	antebellum South: women and health; Southern Life Writing
29	Lauren	Thompson	Faculty	McKendree University	Present	Black recreation & leisure, urban history, childhood, integration, Civil Rights Era	Current manuscript on race & recreation in Civil Rights Era St. Louis - black joy, leisure, childhood, recreation, and integration	lkthompson@mckendree.edu
30	Ryan	Smith	Faculty	Missouri State University	Present	U.S., South, African American, incarceration, crime, punishment, public health and safety	I'm hoping to present a paper on public health, public safety, and the long struggle to end convict leasing in the South, particularly in Arkansas	ryansmith@missouristate.edu
31	ruth	njoroge	faculty	mount kenya university,kenya	Any Role	politics,culture,gender	i have interest in African history
32	Bruce	Baker	Faculty	Newcastle University	Any Role	Black abolitionists; Reconstruction; cotton trade; New Orleans, esp. business history; Central American fruit trade	Happy to chair and/or comment, but also quite keen to present on a CW blockade runner who moves to Honduras in 1868 & is an early part of the fruit trade & British financing of infrastructure	bruce.baker@newcastle.ac.uk	brucehistorian
33	Tina	Irvine	Faculty	Purdue University	Present	education, country life, extension, home economics psychology, non-traditional, eugenics (potentially)	Megan Birk (UTenn.) and I are planning a panel of education broadly conceived. We both have topics that are a bit on-conventional in terms of education. We are looking for a third panelist.
34	Emily	Lampert	Ph.D. Candidate	Rice University	Present	19th c Abolition, Atlantic World, Enslaved Reproduction, Virginia	Working on my dissertation which looks at how British abolitionists conceptualized enslaved reproduction and "slave breeding" through the lens of the American South (in particular, Virginia).
35	Emily	Lampert	PhD Candidate (will graduate in May)	Rice University	Chair	Gender and American/Atlantic slavery, Atlantic abolition, enslaved reproduction
36	Summer	Perritt	Ph.D. Candidate	Rice University	Present	Black History and Culture, 20th Century U.S. South, Migration history, Oral History, Cultural History	I am working on a dissertation about the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post civil rights era. Social and political change, cultural productions etc.	sp96@rice.edu
37	Phil	Hatlem	Faculty	Saint Leo University	Comment	Olympics & Sport
38	Lorri	Glover	Faculty	Saint Louis University	Chair	Early South, eighteenth-century women and gender, Revolutionary era	I am happy to chair or comment on a panel if needed
39	Joseph	Abel	Faculty	Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum	Present	Equal employment opportunity and civil rights, aircraft manufacturing, labor unions, Texas	Current manuscript on EEO policy and organized labor in North Texas aircraft industry
40	Jason	Gallagher	PhD Candidate	St. Louis University	Any Role	Florida, Missouri, border state identity, Progressive Era, historiography, labor history	I am working on my dissertation about the built environment and St. Louis being the shoe capital of America. However, much of the early history of St. Louis was recorded by a former Confederate soldier and historian from Baltimore and I am thinking about the nature of the border states and who is interested and gets to write their history.	jason.gallagher@slu.edu
41	Jennifer	Bridges	Faculty	Tarrant County College	Any Role	community college, 250th anniversary of the American Revolution	I am creating a round table panel about how community college professors are teaching about the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and am looking for interested partcipants.	jennifer.bridges1@tccd.edu
42	William	Cossen	Faculty	The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology	Chair	Religion, Catholicism, Honor Culture, Civil War Era, Reconstruction, Gilded Age and Progressive Era	I am interested in serving as chair and/or commentator. I have written a book on religion and nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and I'm presently researching for a new project on lived religion among Catholic soldiers during the Civil War.	william.s.cossen@gmail.com
43	Jack	Carey	Faculty	U of Alabama	Chair	southern landscapes; interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to southern history	Presented last year and can't again this year, happy to chair/comment on anything related to southern landscapes or interdisciplinary approaches to southern history. (In an AMS department, currently working on a collaboration with a painter on a southern landscape.)	tjcarey@ua.edu	strollingwalker
44	Greg	Downs	Faculty	U of California, Davis	Any Role	Slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, Civil War memorialization, public history
45	Leigh	Soares	Faculty	U of Maryland, College Park	Any Role	Emancipation, Reconstruction, Black education, HBCUs
46	Christian	Anderson	Faculty	U. of South Carolina	Present	Reconstruction, history of higher education, college sports	I am working on a history of the South Carolina State Normal School, an integrated teacher training school that existed on the USC campus from 1874-77.	christian@sc.edu	ProfGamecock
47	Lizzie	McCord	Ph.D. Student	UC Berkeley	Present	Florida, borderlands, Atlantic World, early republic, enslavement, Seminoles, water, critical geographies	I am working on a dissertation that explores how Black and Seminole communities in late Spanish and early territorial Florida carved out spaces of freedom using their geographic and legal knowledge
48	Jillian	Hinderliter	Faculty	UNC-Chapel Hill	Any Role	US Women's & Gender History (19th & 20th c.); American Jewish history; 20th century medicine and women's health care, health activism	Happy to chair and/or comment on women's and gender history, southern Jewish history. Currently working on Jewish community health activism in 1970s South, particularly around Tay-Sachs. Happy to present on this work or related topics in women's health activism; teaching WGST and southern women's history, etc.	jhinder@unc.edu
49	Greg	O'Brien	Faculty	UNC-Greensboro	Chair	Native South, environmental history, Revolutionary era	Happy to chair or comment or participate in a roundtable
50	Brian	Miller	Faculty	Univ of Central Florida	Comment	Civil War Memory, 20th century popular culture, gender	Happy to comment	brian.miller@ucf.edu
51	Tom	Cryer	Ph.D. Candidate	University College London	Any Role	Mid 20th-C Intellectual history, incl. education/memory, esp. Black intellectual history	Starting post-doc project on M-20th-C Southern liberalism, esp. legacies of WWII	thomas.cryer.21@ucl.ac.uk	ThomasOCryer
52	Christopher	Bishop	Faculty	University of Alabama	Chair	Gilded Age and Progressive Era, religion, middle class	Presented last year and can't this year, but happy to chair or comment on panels related to religion, late 19th century, or Progressive Era
53	Kimberly	Jones	Faculty	University of Denver	Any Role	Afro Atlantic history, Histories of Disability, Histories of Capitalism and Race	Currently working on a manuscript about disability and slavery under racial capitalism.	kjone445@du.edu
54	Boyd	Murphree	Faculty	University of Florida	Any Role	southern history, politics, Florida history, Early Republic, Civil War, Reonstruction.public history	Presented in 2025, happy to chair or comment. I am the political papers archivist at UF.
55	Lyn	Hemmingway	Ph.D. Student	University of Georgia	Present	Florida, memory, intellectual + cultural history, Spanish Florida, early 20th c US	Will be starting to work on my dissertation on the memory of "Spanish Florida" in early 20th c Florida	Lyn.Hemmingway@uga.edu
56	Patrick	Sheridan	Ph.D. Student	University of Georgia	Present	Texas, railroads, convict labor, Reconstruction, outlaws, Muscogee, Indian Territory	As part of my dissertation about railroad development in Texas and Louisiana, I would like to present on the use of convict labor in railroad construction. I focus specifically on the Reconstruction era.	Patrick.Sheridan@uga.edu	Patriot_Pat1
57	Anne Sarah	Rubin	Faculty	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Any Role	Civil War, Reconstruction, Food History, Digital
58	Susan	Stearns	Faculty	University of Mississippi	Any Role	revolutionary era, Native South, trade, New Orleans, rivers, land, capitalism
59	Diane	Mutti Burke	Faculty	University of Missouri - Kansas City	Any Role	Missouri, slavery, emancipation, Civil War, Border States, women, homefront	I am happy to chair or comment.
60	Kathleen	McHugh	PhD Student	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Present	20th Century, Women, home economics, activism	I am looking to present on home economists' activism in the South in the second half of the twentieth century	mchughka@unc.edu
61	Valessa	Agoris	M.A. Student	University of North Carolina Greensboro	Any Role	Florida, Tocobaga Native Americans, Social History, Memory	I am writing about the history of the Tocobaga in Tampa and their erasure and commodification in the contemporary era	viagoris@uncg.edu
62	Dee	Gillespie	Faculty	University of North Georgia	Chair	20th century southern history, US women's history (20th c), African American history (20th c)	Happy to chair or comment	Dee.Gillespie@ung.edu
63	Lindsey	Peterson	Faculty	University of South Dakota	Any Role	Civil War & Reconstruction; Civil War memory; Greater Reconstruction; archives; documentary editing	I have work on western Union veterans and their families' roles in Greater Recontruction and shaping the memories of the war; I also co-edit and direct the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project and happy to focus on documentary editing, education, etc.	lindseyraepeterson@gmail.com	lindseyraepeterson.com
64	Erin	Mauldin	Faculty	University of South Florida	Any Role	Environmental history, Civil War / Reconstruction, emancipation, agriculture, 18th-19th centuries	Currently working on a manuscript that surveys war and environment in U.S. History; past work on env hist of CW
65	Mark	Johnson	Faculty	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	Chair	U. S., African American History, Food and Foodways	I can chair or comment per the rules; I did present last year so am happy to do any other acceptable role.
66	Grace	Hale	Faculty	University of Virginia	Any Role	twentieth century South
67	Natalie	Ring	Faculty	University Texas Dallas	Chair	segregation, crime, punishment, incarceration, post Civil War, Jim Crow (would also comment)
68	Evan	Nooe	Faculty	USC Lancaster	Any Role	Native South, Settler Colonialism, Settler Colonial Memory, Tourism	Elligible to serve as chair or commentator for SHA Atlanta; current project centers on Florida, tourism, and historical memory.
69	Julia	Bernier	Faculty	Washington & Jefferson College	Chair	Chair or comment: Early African American history, enslaved people, economic and intellectual thought and practice, Slavery, Abolition
70	Clif	Stratton	Faculty	Washington State University	Any Role	long 20th century US history, sport, recreation, race and racism, US empire, history of education, US South, urban history	Have written a book on the relationship among race, schools, and empire at the turn of the 20th century; currently working on a book project about sports stadiums, urban space, and race, focused on Atlanta; have submitted a roundtable proposal about the 1966 Summerhill rebellion, so open to chairing, commenting, or even presenting on other panels.	clif.stratton@wsu.edu
71	Evan	Kutzler	Faculty	Western Michigan University	Any Role	20th Century; Long Civil Rights Era; Georgia; carceral history; would alternatively comment/chair a public history or Civil War Era panel	I'm currently writing a narrative history of the Rosa Lee Ingram case in Georgia and beyond (1947-1959)	evan.kutzler@wmich.edu
72	Hannah	Charak	PhD Student	Yale University	Present	Federal civil rights policy, Truman, post WWII, President's Committee on Civil Rights	Interested in presenting a paper on the PCCR and federal civil rights policy during the immediate postwar years	hannah.charak@yale.edu
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