M.A. History: Concentration in African-American History
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| FACULTY members who support the program concentration through regular course offerings in African American history: | |
| Cox, Marcus S. (Citadel) | Marcus S. Cox is Assistant Professor of History. He has authored book reviews for the Journal of Military History and presented conference papers such as, "'Keep Our Black Warriors Out of the Draft': The Antiwar Movement at Black Colleges and Universities, 1968-1973" at the Southern Historical Association (2002). His current project is a monograph entitled "Soldiering for Uncle Sam: Black Higher Education and Military Service and Training in the Deep South." Professor Cox is the founder and current director of the African American Studies Program at The Citadel. His teaching areas are the Civil Rights Movement and African American Military History. |
| Drago, Edmund L | Edmund L. Drago is Professor of History, and the author of numerous articles and monographs. Among his most recent books are, Hurrah For Hampton: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina During Reconstruction (Arkansas,1998), Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (Georgia,1992) and Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute (Georgia,1990). His current research examines the history of South Carolina children during the Civil War. Professor Drago is one of the founders of the College’s Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture. His teaching fields are American Civil War and Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. |
| Gleeson, David | David T. Gleeson is Associate Professor of History. His most recent book is The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 (North Carolina, 2001) He has also recently published "Easing Integration: The Impact of the Great Famine on the American South," in An Gorta Mor: Ireland's Great Hunger, An Interdisciplinary Assessment. ed. Christine Kinealy (University Press of America, 2002). His general research interest focuses on the relationship between white "plain folk," especially immigrants, and African Americans in the American South. He is also examining the relationship between pro-slavery ideology and the "plain folk." His teaching area is the Old South |
| Poole, W. Scott | W. Scott Poole is Associate Professor of History; Associate Director of the MA Program in History. He is the author of Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry (Georgia, 2004) and South Carolina's Civil War: A Narrative History (Mercer, forthcoming). He is currently writing a history of the First South Carolina Volunteers, one of the first African American Union regiments. His teaching areas are South Carolina and American religion |
| Powers, Bernard E. | Bernard E. Powers Jr. is Professor of History. He is author of Black Charlestonians, A Social History: 1822-1885 (1994). He has written articles and presented papers on various aspects of African American history in eighteenth and nineteenth century South Carolina, including Gullah culture, free blacks, social and political leadership during Reconstruction and religion. His present research focuses on the social and institutional history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. His teaching area is the African American History |
Other Faculty Members who offer courses related to the concentration: |
| Coates, Timothy J., Professor - Portuguese Empire, Colonial Latin America |
| Carmichael, Tim, Assistant Professor Islam in Africa, East and Southern Africa |
| Piccione, Peter, Associate Professor - Ancient Egypt, the Near East, Nubia and Cush |