- Ph.D., History, University of Georgia, 2004
- M.A., History, University of Georgia, 2000
- B.A., History, Centre College of Kentucky, 1998
Phi Beta Kappa; cum laude
- Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, Mississippi State University, 2006-
- Assistant Professor of History, Franklin College, 2005-06
- Director of American Studies, Franklin College, Fall 2005
- Instructor, University of Georgia, Spring 2005
Nineteenth century U.S. South, the Civil War in historical memory, Women, and cultural history
- Book, Articles & Book Reviews
 Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
(University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
"Civil War Memory "in Eastern Kentucky, is Predominately White: the Confederate Flag in Unionist Appalachia, in Andrew Slap, ed. The Civil War's Aftermath in Appalachia (University Press of Kentucky, 2010)
"'The Rebel Spirit in Kentucky': The Politics of Reconstruction and
Memory in a Border State," in Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller, eds.,
Reconstruction: The Civil War's Unfinished Business (Fordham University Press, 2010) (forthcoming)
"'A Crisis in Our Lives:' African-American Protest and the Kentucky
Separate Coach Law, 1892- 1900." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Summer 2000. This essay was awarded the Richard Collins Prize.
"Mildred Lewis Rutherford," entry in New Georgia Encyclopedia, Ed. John
Inscoe, et all, 2004.
Review of The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle For the Bluegrass State ed. Kent
Masterson Brown (Savas, 2000) Civil War History, June 2004.
Review of Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the
Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen Cox (Florida, 2003) Florida
Historical Quarterly, 2005.
- Presentations
"A Confederate Prom Dress in Unionist Appalachia: The Evolution of Civil War Memory in Eastern Kentucky 1865-2008" Biennial Conference, Society of Civil War Historians, Richmond, Virginia, June 2010
"Memory and the Civil War: Past Contributions and Future Possibilities: A Roundtable Discussion" Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Kentucky, November, 2009. Panel organizer.
"Ellen Semple Churchill, Appalachian Exceptionalism, and Post-Civil War Identity in Eastern Kentucky," Southern Association of Women Historians Conference, Columbia, South Carolina, June, 2009
"The Jack Burden of Southern History: Robert Penn Warren, C. Vann Woodward, and Historical Practice," symposium, "Deconstructing Dixie: Southern History and Storytelling," Mississippi State University, May 2009
"'A Place Full of Colored People, Pretty Girls, and Polite Men:'
The Little Colonel and Confederate Identity in Post-Civil War Kentucky," Biennial Conference, Society of Civil War Historians, Philadelphia, PA, June 2008
"Jefferson Davis and Confederate Memory in Kentucky,
symposium, "The Contested Legacy of Jefferson Davis,
Kentucky Historical Society, June 2008
"'A Place Full of Colored People, Pretty Girls, and Polite Men:'
The Little Colonel and Confederate Identity in Post-Civil War Kentucky, Biennial Conference, Society of Civil War Historians, Philadelphia, PA, June 2008
"A Manifest Aversion to the Union Cause: The Lost Cause and Civil War
Memory in Kentucky," American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA., January 2006
"Maryland: Civil War Border State," lecture, Life Liberty and
Opportunity: The Struggle for Freedom in St. Mary's Maryland,
1634-1865, National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of
American History Program, St. Mary's College Maryland, June 2005
"Two Civil Wars: Appalachia and War Memory in Kentucky," invited
lecture, sponsored by Center for Appalachian Studies and Services,
East Tennessee State University, March 2005
"Lost Cause, Identity Gained: Historical Memory and the Civil War in
Kentucky," Filson Historical Society conference, "Constructing and
Reconstructing a Region," May, 2003
"A Common Fund of Glory: Louisville, the Lost Cause, and Historical
Memory," Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians,
April, 2001
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