Spring 2008:
HIST 710.090 Research Seminar: Plain folk in the Old South
HIST 104.009, 104.011
Fall 2008:
Sabbatical
Background:
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 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.
Contact:
David Gleeson , Associate Professor, Co-Director Carolina Low Country Program
Email:Gleesond@cofc.edu
Office:MYBK 217
Hours: TR 10:40-12, 3-4 or by appt.
Phone: 953-1915
Courses:
American South in 19th Century
Modern Ireland
History of the South since 1865
ST: Ireland since 1600
ST: Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
History of Religion in Ireland
The Northern Ireland Troubles
ST: HIST 310.001 / 347.001
The Irish in the Atlantic World
The Irish in the Atlantic World Conference 2007
