John M. Giggie
Associate Professor
Director, Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Director, Summersell Center for the Study of the South
- (205) 348-1859
- jmgiggie@ua.edu
- ten Hoor Hall 237
Education
- PhD, Princeton University, 1998
Research Areas
- Southern History
- Religious History
- United States History
- History of Race
About
Research Interests
- Southern History
- Civil Rights
- African-American History
- American Religion
Current Projects
- Civil Rights and the Modern South
- History of Lynching
- African American Religion and the Civil War
Courses Taught
- American Civilization since 1865 (HY 204)
- Religion and the Civil Rights Movement
- Alabama Memory: Lynching in Alabama
- The Modern Civil Rights Movement
- Queer History South
Awards and Honors
- Teaching Fellowships and Honors
- Graduate Fellowship Grant, Center for Community-Based Partnerships, The University of Alabama, April 2019
- Distinguished Fellow in Teaching, The University of Alabama, 2013- 2016
- Excellence in Community Engagement, Center for Community-Based Partnerships, The University of Alabama, April 2013
- Fellow, Center for the Study of Ethics and Social Responsibility, The University of Alabama, 2011-12
- Instructional Grant, Active and Collaborative Learning Program, The University of Alabama, Fall 2008, April 2010
- Honors Alliance Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Texas at San Antonio, Spring 2007
- Certificate of Merit, Northwest Vista Community College, San Antonio, Texas, November 2006 (for furthering the study of African American history)
- San Antonio’s Best Teachers, A. Magazine, August 2006
- Presidential Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Texas at San Antonio, Spring 2006
- Research Grants and Prizes (recent and selected)
- Summer Teaching Grant. College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama, Summer 2019
- Center for Community-Based Partnerships, Graduate Fellowship Award, The University of Alabama, April 2019. [Grant: “History of Us: Teaching the History of Lynching in High Schools.” Award is to develop a new secondary education curriculum that integrates the history of racial violence with the telling of southern history at Central High School, Tuscaloosa]
- Technology in the Classroom Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama, Spring 2011
- Teaching and Learning Grant, College Academy to Improve Student Success, The University of Alabama, Spring 2009
- Research Grant, Research Advisory Council, The University of Alabama, Spring 2009
- Additional funding from: National Endowment for the Humanities, Louisville Institute, Princeton Center for the Study of the Religion, Yale University/Pew Foundation, and the American Historical Association
- Conference and Research Presentations [Recent and selected]
- Chair and Moderator, “Tuscaloosa’s History,” Annual Meeting of the Alabama Historical Association, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 25, 2019
- Chair and Commentator, “King’s Biographer,” Lecture by Dr. Derryn Moten on the first biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, January 17, 2019.
- Chair and Commentator, “The Mississippi Delta and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” Annual Conference, Society of Faith and History, Grand Rapids, MI, October 5, 2018.
- “Researching World War I,” Over There, Over Here: Alabama and World War I, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, AL., June 9, 2018.
- Chair and Commentator, “Difficult Conversations: Power, Resistance, and Periodical Culture,” Annual Meeting of the Southern Association of Women’s Historians, Tuscaloosa, AL., June 8, 2018.
- “Reflections on Teaching, Research, and Experiential Learning,” Teaching Workshop, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama, February 17, 2017.
- Chair and Commentator, “Second Stories: Landscape and Memory on University Campuses,” February 16, 2017, The University of Alabama.
- “New Directions in Teaching History,” Professional Learning Communities Conference, December 12, 2016, The University of Alabama.
- Chair and Commentator, “Slavery, Universities, and Remembrance,” The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al., September 6, 2016.
- Chair, “The Legacies of Slavery in Reconstruction-Era Christianity,” American Historical Association Annual Conference/Society of Church Historians, Atlanta, GA., January 8-10, 2016.
- “American Studies and Social Justice,” American Lives and American Studies, Draper Conference in Early American Studies, University of Connecticut, October 9-10, 2014.
Selected Publications
Books
- Bloody Tuesday: Civil Rights History and Violence in Tuscaloosa (manuscript in progress).
- Dixie’s Great War: Essays on World War I and the American South, John Giggie and Andrew Huebner, eds. (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming).
- Watershed: A Thematic Approach to American History (New York: McGraw Hill, forthcoming).
- Unfinished Nation: A Survey of US History, Alan Brinkley. John Giggie, and Andrew Huebner, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2015; 2019).
- America First Hand: A Documentary Reader, Volumes I and II, John Giggie and Anthony Marcus, eds. (Boston: Bedford-St. Martin, 2011; 2015; 2017).
- After Redemption: Jim Crow and The Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2008).
- Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture, John Giggie and Diane Winston, eds. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters (Selected)
- “The Long Civil Rights Movement.” In Jon Butler, ed., The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2020.)
- “Religion and the South,” with Paul Harvey. In Lorri Glover and Craig Friend, eds., Rewriting Southern History: Historiographical Essays (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming, January 2020).
- “Black Pentecostalism in the American South.” In Steven Reich, ed., World of Jim Crow: A Daily Life Encyclopedia (New York: Greenwood Press, forthcoming, September 2019.)
- “Black Religious and Print Culture after the Civil War.” In Oliver Schiedling, ed., Communities of Print Culture (New York: Cambridge University Press, December 2017).
- “The American Missionary Association and African American History,” The Amistad Historical Collection, (London and New York: Adam Mathews/Sage, 2017).
- “The Mississippi River and the Transformation of Black Religion, 1865-1920.” In Michael Pasquier, ed., Gods of the Mississippi (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013): 113-129.
- “The African American Religious Press.” In Diane Winston, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American News Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012): 579-592.
- “For God and Lodge: Black Fraternal Orders and the Evolution of African American Religion in the Postbellum South.” In Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, and Jenny Weber, eds., The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 198-218.
- “Buying and Selling with God: African American Religion, Race Records, and the Emerging Culture of Mass Consumption.” In Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011): 190-213
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