Graduate Student, History
teaching assistant
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Thesis Title: Even the Devil Won't Stay: Gulf Coast Culture and U.S. Expansionism, 1845-1861
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William A. Link
J. Matthew Gallman |
About
I am interested in the creation of southern culture, race, space, and identity. My current work focuses on expansionism and its impact on the Gulf South which had a front-row seat, and in part, enabled, the largest expansionist projects of the nineteenth century. I am very interested in how southerners in this region understand geopolitical borders and social boundaries and how these ideas, affected by expansionism, also had an impact on how these southerners saw and constructed their cultural worlds on the eve of secession.
I am originally from Texas, but finished my BA at the University of North Carolina in Grensboro. I lived for a summer in Virginia working at the Fredericksburg battlefield, and then moved to Florida to complete my graduate work. I recently went ABD so now I'm trying to figure out how to start this whole dissertation process.
