Directory

Research Interests

• Southern history since 1865
• U.S. political history since 1865
• African American history

Courses Taught

• History of the South since 1865
• American Political History since 1865
• Alabama History since 1865
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Graduate Proseminar and Seminar on Southern History

• Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2022).
• Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2013).
• Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida , eds. Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003).
• The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001).