The History Center was created to nurture scholarship, promote scholarly communication, engage local communities, further development goals of the college and university, and raise the department visibility and enhance its reputation in the historical profession.
Upcoming Events
January
Thursday, January 17, Noon-1:00pm
Faculty Works In Progress: Matt Childs
“The Historiography of Religion and Slavery in the Atlantic World: Creolizing Black Christianity over Africanizing the Religious History of the Enslaved”
Location: Gambrell 217
Commenters: Carol Harrison and Mark Smith
Wednesday, January 23, 3:30-4:30 pm
Researching and Writing Civil Rights History: A Roundtable with Judge Richard Gergel
Location: Gambrell 217
Gergel is the author of Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring (2019)
Wednesday, January 23, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Public Talk: Unexampled Courage - A Conversation with Judge Richard Gergel
Location: School of Law Auditorium, 1525 Senate Street, Columbia
Commenters: Arman Derfner, I.S. Leevy Johnson
Cosponsored by the University of South Carolina School of Law, the History Center, and Historic Columbia. Reception to follow.
Note: This is a ticketed event. Visit HistoricColumbia.org to register and purchase
an advance copy of Unexampled Courage. Books will
also be for sale at the event.
February
Sunday, February 3, 2:00-3:30pm
King Solomon’s Table with Joan Nathan
Location: Beth Shalom Synagogue, 5827 N. Trenholm Rd, Columbia
Nathan is the author of King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World (2017). Cosponsored by Historic Columbia and the History Center.
Note: This is a ticketed event. Historic Columbia Members - $15 General Public - $20. For tickets vist HistoricColumbia.org/JoanNathan Department of History faculty, staff, and graduate students planning to attend should email Jillian Hinderliter for a registration code to waive the price of admission.
Wednesday, February 6, 3:30-5:00pm
Visiting Scholar Lecture: Kevin Dawson
“History Below the Waterline: Enslaved Salvage Divers and the Hinter-Sea Production of Colonial Capital”
Location: Gambrell 431
Dawson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Merced and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group. He is author of Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora (Penn Press 2018). Cosponsored by the Walker Institute African Studies Program, the Institute for African-American Research, and the History Center.
Wednesday, February 13, 3:30-5:00pm
Visiting Scholar Lecture: Jane Mangan
“Between Obligation & Sentiment: Family, Love, and the Law in Sixteenth-Century Peru”
Location: Gambrell 431
Jane E. Mangan is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Davidson College. She is author co-author, and editor of five books, including Transatlantic Obligations: Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain (Oxford 2016), which won the American Historical Association’s Friedrich Katz Prize for the best book on Latin American History. Cosponsored by the Walker Institute Latin American Studies Program and the History Center.
Thursday, February 21, 6:00pm
Faculty Spotlight: Nicole Maskiell
Public Lecture: “‘Good Enough to Suckle the Child': Breastmilk, Motherhood and the Creation of Race”
Location: The Skyline Room of the Tapp’s Arts Center, 1644 Main St, Columbia
Cash bar available. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, February 27, Time: TBA
Visiting Scholar Lecture: Lisa Lindsay
Location: TBA
Lindsay is the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor and Department Chair in the Department of History at UNC Chapel Hill. She is the author of Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa (2017). Cosponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, the African Studies Program, and the History Center.
Thursday, February 28, 6:00-8:00pm
History Center Visiting Scholar: Douglas Winiarski
Public Lecture: “Death by Pancakes and Other Incidents in the History of New Light Evangelicalism”
Location: Nursing Rm 127 (To Be Confirmed)
Winiarski is a Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the 2018 Bancroft Prize winner for Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (2017).
March
Friday, March 1, Noon-1:00pm
State of the Field: The Meaning of Religion in History
Location: Gambrell 217
Participants: Christine Ames, Adam Schor and Douglas Winiarski (University of Richmond)
Moderator: Kay Edwards
Wednesday, March 20, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Graduate Research in Progress: Civil Rights History
Location: South Carolina Political Collections Seminar Room, Hollings Library (within Thomas Cooper Library)
Participants: Robert Greene, Maurice Robinson, Emily Martin, Jeff Williams
Moderator: Bobby Donaldson
Cosponsored by Center for Civil Rights History & Research and the History Center
Monday, March 25, 6:00pm
Visiting Scholar Lecture: Elliott Gorn
Location: Carolina Room, The Inn at USC
Gorn is the Joseph A. Gagliano Chair in American Urban History at Loyola University
Chicago and the author of Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till (2018). Cosponsored by the Institute for Southern Studies and the History Center.
April
Wednesday, April 3, 4:00 p.m.-5:00pm
Graduate Works in Progress: Lewis Eliot
Working Title: "The Christmas Rebellion and the Religiosity of British Racism"
Location: Gambrell 217
Wednesday, April 10, 3:30-4:30pm
Visiting Scholar Book Talk: David Silkenat on Raising the White Flag
Silkenat is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book
Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War will be released in April 2019. His other works include Driven from Home: North Carolina's Refugee Crisis (2016).
Location: Gambrell 217
Monday, April 15, Noon-1:00pm
Graduate Works in Progress: Andrew Gutkowski
Dissertation Working Title: “Reclaiming Nature and Community: The Evolution of Environmental (In)-Justice in the Industrial South, 1945 – 1990”
Location: Gambrell 217
Tuesday, April 30, 6:00 pm-8:00pm
State of the Field: Women’s and Gender History
Location: Spigner House
Participants: Alexandra Bethlenfalvy, Melissa DeVelvis, Jillian Hinderliter, Patrick O’Brien
Moderator: Woody Holton
Who We Are
- Director of the History Center: Patricia Sullivan
- Graduate Assistant: Jillian Hinderliter
Governing Board
- Assistant Professor of History, Dinyar Patel
- Associate Professor of History, Bobby Donaldson