David Gleeson , Associate Professor
Email: Gleesond@cofc.edu

Home: Department of History
Office: MYBK 217
Phone: 953-1915

DAVID T. GLEESON (American South, Modern Ireland, Irish in America) received his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University in 1997. Before coming to the University of Charleston he taught for five years at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, where he was an active participant in the graduate program there. He is the author and recipient of the Donald Murphy Distinguished First Book Award for his monograph, The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).His current research interests are on immigrant networks in the American South and the role of the Catholic Church in the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press for a manuscript entitled The Green and the Gray: The Irish and the Confederate States of America to be published in its Civil War America Series. His most recent publications include "Smaller Differences: ‘Scotch-Irish’ and ‘Real Irish’ in the Nineteenth-Century American South," New Hibernia Review 10 (Summer 2006): 68-91; with Brendan Buttimer. "‘We are Irish Everywhere’: Irish Immigrant Networks in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia," Immigrants and Minorities 23 (July-November 2005): 183-205 and "‘No Disruption of Union:’ The Catholic Church in the South and Reconstruction" in Vale of Tears: New Essays in Religion and Reconstruction. Ed. Ed Blum and W. Scott Poole, Mercer University Press, 2005. 164-86.

Fall 2008:
Sabbatical

CV

EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, December 1997, Mississippi State University
M.A., History, December 1993, Mississippi State University
B.A. (Honors), Social Science (History and Economics), June 1991, University of Westminster, London, England

ACADEMIC AREAS
Specialization: American South, Urban and Immigration Studies, Jacksonian America, Civil War and Reconstruction, Modern Ireland

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Asst. Professor of History, Dept. of History, College of Charleston, 2002-
Assistant Professor of History, Dept. of History, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1997-2002
Teaching Assistant/Instructor, Dept. of History, Mississippi State University, 1992-1997

COURSES TAUGHT
at C of C: U.S. South before 1865, U.S. South since 1865, Modern Europe, World History Since 1500, Modern Ireland

elsewhere: Civil War and Reconstruction, Old South, Jacksonian America, Ireland since 1600, Seminar in American History, Graduate Historical Methods, Early and Modern U.S. History, Modern World Civilization, Ethics and Values in History, Political and Constitutional History of the United States and Georgia

PUBLICATIONS and FILM PRODUCTION

The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

"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.

"Parallel Struggles: Irish Republicanism in the American South, 1798-1877," Éire-Ireland 34 (Summer 1999): 97-116.

"Insiders, Outside: The Scots Irish and The English in America" Review Essay of
The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764, by Patrick Griffin and Accent on Privilege: English Identities and Anglophilia in the U. S., by Katherine W. Jones, forthcoming Journal of American Ethnic History.

Review of Anna Matilda Page King, Anna: The Letters of a St. Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817-1859. Ed. Melanie Pavich-Lindsay, forthcoming Avery Review.

"Irish," forthcoming Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi.

"Irish Americans." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Incorporated. 2001.

"J. Early Little," Philbert Little," "Voting Rights Act of 1965," Malcolm X Encyclopedia, ed. Robert Jenkins and Mfanya Tryman, Greenwood Press, 2001.

"Irish Immigrants," One Faith, One Family: The Diocese of Savannah, 1850-2000. Signature Publications, 2000, 37-41.

"Savannah, Irish in," Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, ed. Michael Glazier. University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.

"George Poindexter" and "Nathaniel Ware," American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Review of The Southern Albatross: Race and Ethnicity in the American South, ed. Philip D. Dillard and Randal L. Hall, Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (Winter 2000).

Review of Campaigning with "Old Stonewall:" Captain Ujanirtus Allen's Letters to His Wife, ed. Randall Allen and Keith S. Bohannon, Journal of Mississippi History 52 (Summer 2000).

Review of American Mobbing: Toward the Civil War, by David Grimsted, Mississippi Quarterly 53 (Winter 1999-2000).

Review of When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans, by Chester G. Hearn, Mississippi Quarterly 51 (Fall 1998).

"The Irish in Georgia in the 19th Century," Celtic Quarterly, 5 (Sept. 1998): 1-7.

Co-producer, Documentary Film, Georgia's Sisters of Mercy: Acts of the Nineteenth Century. 2000.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

"Irish Nationalism in the American South." Low Country and Atlantic World Studies Seminar. College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, October 2002.

"The Irish in the American South: The Importance of Regional Variance in the Immigrant Experience." Wiles Colloquium, Queens University. Belfast, Northern Ireland, September 2002.

Commentator, "The Irish Maid-of-all-Work: Immigrants, Servants, and the Construction of Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth Century Canada and the United States." Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Washington, D. C., April 2002.

"Strangers Among the ‘Peerage of White Men': Irish Immigrants in the American South."
The Irish Diaspora: Writing, Researching, Comparing. British Association for Irish Studies Meeting, University of North London, London, England. November 2000.

"The Irish in the Antebellum South." Irish Studies Program. University of North Florida. Jacksonville, Florida. October 2000.

"The Parallel Struggles: Irish and Southern Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century." Center for Irish Studies. Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, Georgia. October 2000.

"Easing Integration: The Impact of Great Famine on the American South." An Gorta Mor: Ireland's Great Hunger, An Interdisciplinary Assessment. Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, September 2000.

"‘Democracy. . . the word is potent them:' Irish Immigrants and The Politics of the American South." American Conference for Irish Studies National Meeting, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.

"Divided by the Ocean: Irish Attitudes Toward American Slavery." American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional Meeting, Nassau, The Bahamas, February 2000.

"‘If the Paddies are knocked overboard, or get their backs broke, nobody loses anything': Irish Immigrants and the Peculiar Institution," Southern Historical Association Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, November 1999.

"Green vs. Orange: A History of the Northern Ireland Troubles," Museum and Archives of Georgia Education, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, February 1999. Sponsored by Georgia Humanities Council.

"The Irish in the Confederate Forces," Conference on the Irish in The Civil War. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 1998.

Panel Discussion on "The Irish in Georgia," Atlanta Celtic Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1998. Sponsored by Georgia Humanities Council.

"The Irish in the South, 1815-1861," Out of Ireland Exhibit Opening at Museum and Archives of Georgia Education, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, February 1998. Sponsored by Georgia Humanities Council.

"The Parallel Struggles: Irish and Southern Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century," First Annual Armstrong Atlantic State University Symposium on the Irish Diaspora, February 1998.

Commentator, "Historical and Cultural Aspects of the Great Famine," Jackson, Mississippi, September 1995. Sponsored by Mississippi Humanities Council.

"Irish Immigrants and the Southern Confederacy," Southwest Social Science Association Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 1995.

"Irish Natchez," Historic Natchez Conference, Natchez, Mississippi, January 1994.

GRANTS
$2,500,from O'Shaugnessy Irish Research Fund, Irish American Cultural Institute, October 1996, for "The Irish in the South, 1815-1877."

$1,000 from Georgia Humanities Council, December 1998 for Armstrong Atlantic State University Symposium on the Irish Diaspora.

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Ireland's Place in Western Civilization," AASU History Department Problems in Civilization Series, February 1998

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/ACTIVITIES
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association
Society of Civil War Historians
Georgia Historical Society
South Carolina Historical Society
Irish American Cultural Institute
American Conference for Irish Studies

Treasurer, American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional
Member, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES
Member, John Mitchel, Jr., Memorial Committee. Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division 1, Charleston, South Carolina, 2003-
Membr, Emmet Park Historical Marker Committee, St. Patrick's Day Committee, Savannah, Georgia. 2002-
Founder of Monsignor Bourke Irish America Studies Fund, Armstrong Atlantic State
Member, Catholic Diocese of Savannah Millennium Historical Committee.
Coordinator Cultural Stage Savannah Irish Festival, 2000-2002
Judge, Ladies Order of Hibernians Irish History Writing Contest 2001
Organizer and Coordinator of AASU Symposium on the Irish Diaspora, 1998-2002
Referee for Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians
Reviewer of manuscript chapters in Wallbank et al. Civilization: Past and Present, 9th ed., for Addison Wesley Longman. 1999
Adviser and editor on Catholic Diocese of Savannah History Project, 1999-2000
Adviser to Savannah Hibernian Society on Bicentennial History Project
AASU Coordinator, "Peace in the Northeast of Ireland" essay competition. Sponsored by US Intermodal Corporation, Savannah, Georgia, 1997-98

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE COMMITTEES:
History Dept. Liaison to College of Education for upcoming NCATE accreditation

DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES:
Atlantic World Committee, 2002-
Goals and Objectives Committee, 2002-
Chair's Advisory Committee, 2002-

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:
"The Irish in South Carolina," South Carolina Historical Society, December 2002.
"The Irish in Charleston," The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, December 2002.

"Irish Savannah" Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Savannah, Georgia, March 2002.
"The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate Forces,"presented to Savannah Genealogical Association, March 2001.
"The Post-Civil War Irish in the South," presented to Savannah Genealogical Association, March 2000.
"The Irish in the Old South," presented to Hilton Head Irish Festival, Hilton Head, South Carolina, March 2000.
"Keeping the Faith: The Irish the Catholic Church in the South," presented at Savannah Irish Festival, February 2000.
"The Irish in the Old South," presented to Phi Beta Kappa, Savannah, Georgia, March 1999.
"The Historical St. Patrick," presented to Benedictine Military College and St. Vincent's Academy, Savannah, Georgia, March 1999, February 2000.
"Keeping the Faith: The Irish and the Catholic Church in the South," presented at Savannah Irish Festival, Savannah, Georgia, February 2000.
"1798 and the Origins of Green v. Orange," presented at Savannah Irish Festival, Savannah, Georgia, February 1999.
"Modern-day Ireland" presented to Savannah Deanery Council of Catholic Women, Savannah, Georgia, March 1998.
"Irish in the Nineteenth-Century South," presented to Savannah Genealogical Society, Savannah, Georgia, March 1998.
"St. Patrick's Day in the South," presented to Clan Na Erin St. Patrick's Day Breakfast, Savannah, Georgia, March 1998.
"Georgia's Irish: Past, Present, and Future," presented at Celtic Cross Ceremony, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah, Georgia, March 1998.
"The Green and the Gray," presented at Savannah Irish Festival, Savannah, Georgia, February 1998.
"The Irish in the Old South," presented to Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1, Savannah, Georgia, Christmas Dinner, December 1997.