Mailing Address:O. Vernon Burton, Executive Director
Dr. Burton is a Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He teaches courses in U.S. social and political history, history of the south, race relations, Civil Rights movement, family & community studies, and quantitative techniques. More About Dr. Burton.
Contact Dr. Burton at vburton@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Simon K. Lewis, Director
Dr. Lewis is an Associate Professor of English at the College of Charleston and editor of Illuminations. He teaches courses in African literature, Postcolonial literature and theory, and Contemporary South African literature, culture & poetry. More About Dr. Lewis.
Contact Dr. Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu
David T. Gleeson, Co-Director
Dr. Gleeson is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of Charleston. He teaches courses in American South in 19th Century,
Modern Ireland,
History of the South since 1865,
ST: Ireland since 1600, and
ST: Ireland and the Irish Diaspora. More About Dr. Gleeson.
Contact Dr. Gleeson at gleesond@cofc.edu
W. Scott Poole, Co-Director
Dr. Poole is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of Charleston. He teaches courses in
Society and Culture of Early Charleston,
South Carolina in the New South,
History of South Carolina, Religion in the American South. His research focuses on South Carolina and historical memory and African American history and the Civil War. More About Dr. Poole.
Contact Dr. Poole at poolews@cofc.edu
Samuel M. Hines, Jr.
Dr. Hines is Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Science at the College of Charleston and
Professor of Political Science & Public Administration. More About Dean Hines.
Contact Dean Hines at hiness@cofc.edu
Program Associates
David S. Shields
Dr. Shields is the McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He specializes in Early American Literature,
History of the Book,
Southern Studies,
and Intellectual History of the early modern Atlantic World. More About Dr. Shields.
Contact Dr. Shields at dshields@gwm.sc.edu
Rosemary Brana-Shute
Dr. Brana-Shute is an Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston. Her research focuses on slavery in the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. More About Dr. Brana-Shute.
Contact Dr. Brana-Shute at branashuter@cofc.edu
Randy J. Sparks
Dr. Sparks is an Associate Professor of History at Tulane University and Interim Director of the Deep South Regional Humanities Center. He specializes in Southern History and American Religious History. More About Dr. Sparks.
Contact Dr. Sparks at rsparks1@tulane.edu
S. Max Edelson
Dr. Edelson is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in Colonial America, Environmental History, U.S. South and Caribbean, and Slavery and Plantation Societies. More About Dr. Edelson.
Contact Dr. Edelson at edelson@uiuc.edu
Lisa B. Randle
Lisa Randle is the site coordinator at the College of Charleston for the UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project and an adjunct instructor in the Historic Preservation and Community Planning Department. Ms Randle holds degrees from the University of South Carolina: B.A., December, 1979 (International Studies); M.A., May, 1999 (Public History); Master Certificate, May 2005 (Historic Archaeology); Ph.D. program, begin September 2006 (Anthropology). Contact Ms. Randle at randlel@cofc.edu
