Tuesday, August 29: 5:30-7:30, Columbia Conversations, Robert Mills Carriage House
Nicole Maskiell discussed her recently published book, Bound By Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry
Co-sponsors: Historic Columbia

September 14-15: Neil Kingham, author of A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardoza and Reconstruction in South Carolina, participated in the following events.

• Thursday, September 14, 5:30-7:30, Columbia Conversations, Robert Mills Carriage House

Neil Kingham book talk and conversation with Lewis Burke. Book sale, signing, and reception followed

• Friday, September 15, 9:30_interviewed by Mark Smith on the “Take on the South” podcast
• Friday, September 15, noon to 1:30, USC, Gambrell Hall, 245B Roundtable with Neil Kingham and Lewis Burke on the researching Francis Cardoza and the history of Reconstruction in South Carolina
• Friday, September 15, 4 p.m. Euphradian Room, Harper College, room 320 Neil Kinghan delivered the annual Richard Greener Lecture as part of USC’s commemoration of the 150^th anniversary of Reconstruction

Book sale and signing will followed

Wednesday, September 27, 12:30-2:00, Gambrell, 431
Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson (Johns Hopkins University) on “Trans History as Public History” It was moderated by Dr. Lauren Sklaroff

October 26-27: Klymenko Oksana, Visiting Scholar, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University; a Senior Lecturer at National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. Her primary research interest concerns Ukrainian history of the 20th century, memory studies, Soviet society, gender studies, and labor history.

Thursday, October 26: Oksana presented,
“Soviet Women and Industrialization: a case of Dniprohes Construction (1920s-1930s)”

Friday, October 27, noon-1:30
Klymenko Oksana in conversation with Elena Oskina on research and scholarship

 

Monday, September 12, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Gambrell 217

Melissa Stuckey, Assistant Professor of History, Elizabeth City State University “Rehabilitating Elizabeth City State University's Rosenwald "Practice" School: Institution Building in Northeastern North Carolina”

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Thursday, September 22, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Gambrell 245B

Amir Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University “At Home with the KGB: A New History of the Soviet Security Service” Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology

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Wednesday, October 5 - Friday, October 7

Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law

Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania will visit the UofSC and participate in several events, including a public lecture [pdf] on her recently published book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance (winner of the 2022 Bancroft Prize).

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Thursday, October 6, 2022, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law

Mia Bay will discuss her prize-winning book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, a riveting account of racial segregation in America that reveals how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws and why “traveling Black” has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice. Book signing & reception to follow.

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Wednesday, October 12, 3:30 p.m.

(Virtual -- via Zoom)

Michael Zeuske, Senior Research Professor, University of Bonn “Slaves Who Write? Auto-representation of enslaved people in slavery” Co-sponsor: Walker Institute 

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Monday, October 17, 6:00 p.m

Lumpkin Auditorium
Andy Doyle, Associate Professor of History, Winthrop College “Causes Won, Not Lost: The Origins of Southern Football” Co-sponsor: Institute for Southern Studies 

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Tuesday, November 1, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Chappelle Auditorium, Allen University
Woody Holton, McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina in conversation with Bakari Sellers, author, political commentator, and former SC state legislator, about Professor Holton’s book Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution. Book signing and reception to follow

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 Please note: If you are a Department of History student or faculty member, contact Jeff Williams at [email protected] for more information about registering for events.

February

Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Time: 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell 245B
Work In Progress by Jeffery Williams entitled, "Elisha Scott: Creating a Legend."

Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m
Location: Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law
Barbara Phillips, formerly an attorney with Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, will interview attorney Armand Derfner and Dr. Vernon Burton about their recently published book, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. This event is part of the Founding Documents series. Reception and Book Signing to Follow.

Monday, February 28, 2022
Time: 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell 217
Work in Progress by Dr. Myisha Eatmon entitled, “Legal Networking: Vernacular Legal Education and Black Legal Networks.”

 

March

Monday, March 21, 2022,
Time: 6 p.m. 
Location: Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law
Dr. Nicholas Buccola, Elizabeth and Morris Chair in Political Science at Linfield University will discuss his book, The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley and the Debate over Race in America.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Southern Studies

 

April

Monday, April 4, 2022
Time: noon
Location: Gambrell 217 
Roundtable discussion with Dr. Michael Woods, Associate Professor of History and director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

 
Monday, April 4, 2022
Time: 5 p.m.
Location: Petigru 108
Dr. Michael Woods will present a lecture on "The Grass Roots Slave Power: Tracing Pro-Slavery Influence in the Papers of Andrew Jackson"

 
Monday, April 4, 2022
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Sloan 122
Film screening of "Boycott," a docudrama about the Montgomery bus boycotts during the civil rights movement, with actor and director Clark Johnson

 
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Time: noon
Location: Gambrell 245B
A Conversation with Clark Johnson, a director and cast member of "The Wire," and director of HBO's Peabody award winning film, "Boycott," moderated by Dr. Todd Shaw.

 
Thursday, April 14, 2022 
Time: 3:45 p.m.
Location: Gambrell #245B
"Light and Lines: A photographer and a historian interpret Ovid's Metamorphoses." A talk with photographer Kate Joyce and historian Andrew Berns

 
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law
Dr. Patricia Sullivan and Judge Richard Gergel will hold a conversation on Sullivan's recently published book Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White. Reception & book signing to follow. Co-sponsored by the UofSC School of Law and Historic Columbia.

 
Friday, April 25, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Spigner House
Dr. Lacy Ford will discuss his new book, Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina. Reception and book signing to follow Co-sponsored by Institute for Southern Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, UofSC Press.

January 

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Event Title: Strategies and Survival Techniques for Teaching History: The TA Discussion Section and Beyond
Time: Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell 217

 

Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Event Title: Graduate Work in Progress: Andrew Walgren
‘Crazed for Music’: Wartime Federal Music Programs and the Development of a National Musical Audience, 1917-1919
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell 217

 

February

February 6-7, 2020
Visiting Scholar: Laurent Dubois

 

Thursday, February 6, 2020 (CANCELLED)
Musical Passages: African Music in the Atlantic World
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: W. W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall, Darla Moore School of Business, 1014 Greene St., Columbia
Based upon the interdisciplinary scholarship of Laurent Dubois (Department of History, Duke University), Mary Caton Lingold (English, Virginia Commonwealth University), and David Garner (School of Music, UofSC), "Musical Passages" explores the impact of African music and musicians upon Atlantic cultures of music since the 17th century. The event draws upon the trio's digital history website, musicalpassage.org as well as Dubois' recent publication, The Banjo: America's African Instrument. The audience will be treated to a short public lecture combined with musical performances of early African-Atlantic music by UofSC School of Music students and local musicians. 

 

Friday, February 7, 2020
Doing Interdisciplinary History: A Conversation with Laurent Dubois
Time: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Location: Close-Hipp 535
Laurent DuBois is a specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic World with a focus on the Caribbean and particularly Haiti. He is the author of The Banjo: America's African Instrument (Harvard University Press, 2016), Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (Metropolitan Books, 2012), and Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press, 2010).

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 visit 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

 

September

Thursday, September 26, 2019
History Center Annual Lecture in Political History
Elaine Weiss on The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Richland Library Main, 1431 Assembly St., Columbia, SC 29201
Book sale and signing to follow lecture. Cosponsored by Richland Library and Historic Columbia.

 

Friday, September 27, 2019
Women and the Right to Vote: A Conversation with Marjorie Spruill and Elaine Weiss
Time: Noon-2:00 p.m.
Location: Hampton-Preston House, Historic Columbia, 1615 Blanding Street, Columbia
Moderated by Dr. Laura R. Woliver. Book sale and signing to follow lecture. Cosponsored by the History Center, Historic Columbia, and the League of Women Voters of the Columbia Area. These events are part of a yearlong series commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment.

 

October

Wednesday, October 16, 2019
The Story Behind the Story: What the Sesquicentennial State Park Project Reveals About Public History
Time: Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell Hall 217

 

Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Graduate Work in Progress: Don Polite
“Arturo Schomburg: Caribbean Unrest as the Foundation of Racial Uplift Politics”
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell Hall 217

 

November

Monday, November 4, 2019
Visiting Scholar: Tim Lockley (University of Warwick)
“The British Army and the [Poly]genesis of 19th Century American Race Theory”
Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell 217

 

Monday, November 11, 2019
History Center Faculty Spotlight: Tom Brown
“The Art of the American War Memorial”
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia Museum of Art Auditorium, 1515 Main St, Columbia, SC 29201
Lecture cosponsored by Historic Columbia and venue partner Columbia Museum of Art.

 

Thursday, November 21, 2019 (Postponed until Spring 2020) 
Graduate Work in Progress: Andrew Walgren
“‘Crazed for Music’: Wartime Federal Music Programs and the Development of a National Musical Audience, 1917-1919”
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Gambrell Hall 217

January

Wednesday, January 31^st, 2018 (11:00am)
Adam Schor: "Abstract Social Network Modeling and the Rise of Bishops as Early Christian leaders, Work in Progress Series (23rd c. CE)" 
(Gambrell Room 217)

 

February

History Center Visiting Scholar
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 (5:00pm - 7:00pm)
Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University): “How to Fight Racism: Lessons from Gandhi’s Diet,” Close-Hipp building

Thursday, February 8th, 2018  (9:00 – 10:30AM)
Roundtable discussion with Nico Slate on the research and writing of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle  for Freedom in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, 2012) Gambrell 217

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018 (Noon)
Patrick O’Brien: “‘A Fore Taste of the Joys of Heaven and Almost the Same of the Miseries of Hell’: Loyalist Women and Communities of Suffering in Halifax.”
Works in Progress Series Gambrell Room 217

 

March

Monday, March 5th, 2018 (Noon)
Antony Keane-Dawes: “‘There is almost no portion of the spiritual edifice that does not represent rubbish and ruin”: Haiti and the Catholic Church in Santo Domingo.’”Works in Progress Series Gambrell Room 217

 
Faculty Spotlight Series
Thursday, March 22th, 2018  
Nicole Maskiel: "'Good enough to Suckle the child': Breastmilk, Motherhood and the creation of race.” Venue TBA

 

April

Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 (Noon)
Stephanie Gray, Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) 1931-1937 restoration of the Charles A. Lindbergh Boyhood Home and State Park Work in Progress series Gambell Room 217

• Talk by Dr. Sarah Gardner on Southern Lit and WWII 
• “The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords” Introduced by Kenneth Campbell
• “The Murder of Emmett Till” Introduced by Laura Kissel
• “Freedom Riders”
• “A Place of Our Own” Introduced by Patricia Sullivan 
• “Freedom Summer” Introduced by Kent Germany (talk back with Cleveland Sellers)
  
• "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"
• "Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities” (talk back with Stanley Nelson)
• Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Discussion with Stanley Nelson
• 2017 Media & Civil Rights History Symposium Opening Reception 
• Keynote speech, 2017 Media & Civil Rights History Symposium 
• Public showing and discussion of the films of Stanley Nelson
• Talk by Dr. Sarah Gardner on Southern Lit and WWII Faculty Spotlight Lecture Featuring Associate Professor Thomas Lekan
• Work in Progress Featuring Assistant Professor Martine Jean
•  Faculty Spotlight Lecture Featuring Associate Professor Lauren Sklaroff
• Talk by Dr. Sarah Gardner on Southern Lit and WWII
•  Martha P. Noonan Public Lecture:"Three Myths of the Civil Rights Movement"
• Discussion with Civil Rights Activist Martha P. Noonan

 

Thursday, April 19-20th, 2018
Symposium: Reconstruction’s Legacy: The History and Contemporary Significance of the Fourteenth Amendment:
Presented with Historic Columbia
The symposium marks the culmination of the History Center’s two year-long series, America’s Reconstruction Era and Its Legacies: Explorations in Race, Democracy, Citizenship and Rights. 

The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 in the wake of the Civil War to secure the freedom of formerly enslaved African Americans by guaranteeing basic rights of citizenship and equality before the law. It was the cornerstone of Reconstruction, became the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement, and has been central to the expansion of full constitutional rights and protections for all American citizens. Leading scholars and historians will participate in the symposium, which will consider the rich history surrounding the Fourteenth Amendment and provide a public forum for discussing the amendment’s contemporary meaning and significance.

The symposium will include a tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois, who was born in 1868 and died on the eve of the 1963 March on Washington. On Friday, April 20, David Levering Lewis will deliver a keynote address, reflecting on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois’s birth and the significance of his history in the decades long struggle of African Americans to secure the guarantees of legal equality and citizenship. Professor Lewis has written a two-volume biography of W.E.B. Du Bois; each was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for biography.

The full schedule for the symposium follows, along with brief biographies of the participants.

Welcome and Keynote 

Thursday, April 19 | 6 – 8 p.m. | Chappelle Auditorium at Allen University

The symposium will open on Thursday evening, April 19, at Allen University’s Chappelle Auditorium with a keynote address by Randall Kennedy on the history of the 14th Amendment.

Dr. Randall Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School, is a prominent legal scholar, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Dr. Kennedy’s father and uncle, residents of the Waverly Neighborhood, were often in the audience when Marshall spoke at Chappelle, making this a fitting homecoming.

Symposium

Friday, April 20 | 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. | South Carolina State Museum

After a continental breakfast and book signing from 9 - 10 a.m., the Friday morning panel "The 14th Amendment: From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Act" will be moderated by Randall Kennedy. Participants include:

• Margaret Burnham, professor of law at Northeastern University and director of the Civil Rights Restorative Justice Program. Professor Burnham has written about the limits of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in securing the rights of the criminally accused and in protecting civil rights activists from state-sanctioned violence.
• Richard Gergel,  S. District Judge Judge.Judge Gergel has written a biography of Judge J. Waties Waring, federal district court judge whose rulings expanded the application of the 14th amendment in key civil rights cases in South Carolina.
• Patricia Sullivan, D., professor of History at the University of South Carolina.Dr. Sullivan has written about Charles Houston and the uses of the 14th Amendment in organizing the legal challenge that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education and provided the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.
• Michael Vorenberg, D., professor of History at Brown University.Dr.Vorenberg is a leading historian of the 14th Amendment.

During lunch at noon, David Levering Lewis will deliver a keynote address at lunch on W.E.B. Du Bois, reflecting on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois’s birth and the significance of Du Bois’s history in the decades-long struggle of African Americans to secure the guarantees of legal equality and citizenship.

The Friday afternoon panel "The Significance of the 14th Amendment to the Rights of American Citizens and Legal Equality" will be moderated by Blair L.M. Kelley, Ph.D. Participants include:

• Deb Ellis, founder and consultant, End the Pay Gap. Ellis is former adjunct professor focused on sex discrimination and the law at NYU School of Law, and has served as staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project and legal director at NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.
• Nekki Shutt, partner, Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, Columbia, SC. Shutt is an attorney specializing in gender, sexuality, disability, race and the law. She has played an active role in the LGBT movement for civil rights.
• Lewis Steel, senior counsel, Outten & Golden LLP, New York, NY. Steel began his work as a civil rights lawyer in 1963 when he joined Robert L. Carter's legal team at the NAACP. He has worked on a broad range of cases involving discrimination in employment, education, housing, and criminal justice.

 

September

Monday, September 10, 2018 4:00 p.m.
Room: Gambrell 217
State of the Field
Atlantic History:  What is it? Why did it take off? How long will it be relevant?Moderator: Matt Childs
Participants: Lewis Eliot, Jill Found, Erica Johnson (Asst Prof, Francis Marion University), Antony Keane-Dawes, Nicole Maskiell

Wednesday-Friday, September 19-21, 2018
Visiting Scholar: Mary Beth Norton
Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University
President, American Historical Association

 

Thursday, September 20, 2018 6:00 p.m.
Room: McMaster College 214
Address: 1615 Senate Street, Columbia
Public Talk: “The Perils of ‘Fake News’ in 1773: South Carolina and East India Company Tea”

 

Friday, September 21, 2018 Noon-1:30 p.m.
Room: Gambrell 217
Roundtable with Graduate Students
Including a discussion between Dr. Norton and Dr. Nicole Maskiell, who worked with      Dr. Norton at Cornell University.

 

October

Thursday-Sunday, October 18-21, 2018
Location: Hilton Columbia Center (924 Senate St) & U of SC Alumni Center (900 Senate St)
Urban History Conference 
“Cities at the Crossroads”
For More Information and to Register, Visit: https://www.urbanhistory.org/resources/Documents/2018%20UHA%209th%20Biennial%20Conference%20Program%20FINAL.pdf

Monday, October 29, 2018 4:00 p.m.
Room: Gambrell 217
Award Winning Graduate Research in Progress 
The Atkinson/Wyatt Dissertation Fellowship: Lewis Eliot, “Neither Men nor Brothers: Rebellion and Empire in Britain’s Atlantic World, 1807-1884”

The Smith Richardson Award: Andrew Gutkowski, “Reclaiming Nature and Community: The Evolution of Environmental (In)-Justice in the Industrial South, 1945 – 1990”

The Wilfrid and Rebecca Callcott Award: Jillian Hinderliter, “Our Bodies, Our Jewish Selves:  Jewish Activists of the U.S. Women’s Health Movement, 1968-1988.”

 

November

Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:15 p.m.
Room: Gambrell 217
Doing Local History
“Which Stories to Tell?: Designing Congaree National Park’s Historic Resource Study” 
Participants: Jessica Elfenbein, Tom Lekan