Otis Pickett: M.A. 2007 Congratulations on placing first in the History Graduate Reseach Event with an entry entitled Marching to Zion.

Jessica Lancia: M.A. 2007 Congratulations on placing in the History section of the Graduate Research Poster Event: How Denmark Vesey Changed Charleston. Her research examined the various levels of reaction in Charleston, SC to the Denmark Vesey attempted slave rebellion of 1822.
Conference Paper: Rebellion and Reaction: An examination of the Psychological, Legislative, and Physical Changes within the City of Charleston in Response to the Denmark Vesey Revolt of 1822 at the Eighth Annual African American History Conference.

Vanessa McNamara: M.A. 2007 Submitted for the First Annual Graduate Research Poster Event: 19th Century Women's Benevolent Works in Charleston South Carolina

Jason Far: M.A. 2007: Congratulations on your acceptance into the University of Virginia's Ph.D. program! Conference Papers: The Denominational Diplomacy of William Tennent and Oliver Hart's Mission to the South Carolina Backcountry, 1775, at the Rocky Mt. Interdisciplinary History Conference at the University of Colorado, "Black Identity in Colonial Spanish America" at Yale University, Conference on 'Pan-Africanisms: The Work of Diaspora Within and Without the Academy, and "The Origins of An Exceptional Identity" at the Graduate History Forum at UNC Charlotte.

Adrienne Briles: Presented her paper entitled The Impact of American Slavery as it is upon American Civilzation at the Eighth Annual African American History Conference at the Univeristy of Memphis on the theme From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Experience From Africa to the Americas.

Robert Ashton Cobb: M.A. 2001 Author of Kiawah Island:  A History, 2006 Cobb "tells the history of a South Carolina sea island that has been the site of great change through the centuries, but has remained a treasured location for generations of inhabitants and devoted visitors."  Ashton Cobb presently works as a history instructor at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College

Lance Bodrero: M.A. 2006 Presented his paper entitled "Charleston's Waterfront Evangelism, 1820-1860." at the S.C. Historical Association's annual business meeting in a session on Religion's Role in South Carolina History.

Felice F. Knight: M.A. 2006 Presented her paper entitled: "From Slavery to Freedom: The Development of Community Among Freed Blacks on Edisto Island, 1861-1880." at the University of Memphis History Department Graduate Student Conference in Memphis, TN.

Courtney McIndoe : M.A. 2006 Presented a paper entitled “Particles of Sixteen Virgins”: The Importance of the Sainted Virgin in Medieval England at the Ninth Annual Brian Bertoti "Innovative Perspectives in History" Graduate Conference in Blacksburg, Virginia.
She also presented: at the 31st Annual Southeastern Medieval Association in Daytona Beach, Florida, a paper entitled "Hrotsvit's Aemulatio Terentii" and at the UNC-Charlotte Graduate History Forum, with "The Historiography of the Arabesque". 

Richard Dwight Porcher: Professor of Biology (retired) and Director of the Herbarium at The Citadel is presently pursuing a master's degree with a concentration in southern history.  He is a well known authority on the flora of South Carolina and is widely published.  His most recent book, co-authored with Sarah Fick, is entitled The Story of Sea Island Cotton (Wyrick & Company, 2005) . It examines the history, production techniques and uses of Sea Island cotton, an important Low Country product, that was grown even before "cotton became king" in the South.

Rebecca Barbour Calcutt: M.A. 2000, in Antebellum South History has recently published Richmond's Wartime Hospitials, Pelican Publishing, 2005. She uses her background as both registered nurse and historian to study fifty hospitals and medical care during the Civil War period. She is currently a resident of Charleston and also author of South Carolina's Revolutionary War Battlefields: a Tour Guide.

Monica Biddix: M.A. 2005
Winner of the 2005 Bertoti Award "best overall history paper" for her paper entitled More than a 'Buckra': The Overseer as a Paternalistic Agent on Robert Allston's Waccamaw River Rice Plantations. The paper was presented at the Brian Bertoti Graduate Conference.

Jane Aldrich: M.A. 2006 Represented the UNESCO "Breaking the Silence" Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project at the International Youth Forum in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She presented a paper entitled "Literature, Philosophy and a Turk Spy:  The Reading Habits of Charleston Library Society Members in the Early Nineteenth Century" at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association and has completed a comprehensive catalogue and finding aid for the Frank A. DeCosta Collection. She is currently working as archivist for the Charleston Historical Society.

Kristin Halvorson: B.A. 2000, M.A. 2003 and M.A. in Near eastern Studies and Egyptology at the University of Chicago.
Kristin's thesis Transitions in the Theban Necropolis of Ancient Egypt: A Study of the Placement of Non-Royal Tombs in Western Thebes, Dynsties XI-XX (ca 2134-1070 BC) was the representative entry for the Graduate School of the College of Charleston in the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Master's Thesis Competition. Dr. Peter Piccione was director of the thesis.

Cherisse R. Jones: '94; B.A., Ph.D.
Faculty member, Department of History at Arkansas State University

Ana Candela: M.A. 2004presented a paper entitled, A Indigenizing Identity: Appropriating and Negotiating Aboriginal Culture into Taiwans National Identity, at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte Graduate History Forum. Ana Candela was accepted in the doctoral program at the University of Oregon to study Chinese history and awarded a fellowship.
Jason Chasteen: M.A. 2004 is working as an editor for the History Press in Charleston.

Jane M. Aldrich: M.A. 2006
“Edwin Augustus Harleston 1882-1931,” Walter Edgar, ed., South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006): 429.

Damon L. Fordham: M.A. 2000
“Black business districts,” Walter Edgar, ed., South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006): 73-74.

“Charleston Riot,” Walter Edgar, ed., South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006): 157.

Cherisse R. Jones: MA 1997
“Marion Birnie Wilkinson (1870-1956),” Walter Edgar, ed., South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006): 1028.

“Women’s Clubs,” Walter Edgar, ed., South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006): 1040-41.

Kelly R. Obernueffemann: M.A. 1997
“Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké (1805-1879),” Walter Edgar, ed., South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006): 409.

“Esther Hill Hawks (1833-1906),” Walter Edgar, ed., South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006): 433-34.