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Jason Morgan Ward20th Century U.S.hCivil Rights and Racial Politics 237 Allen Hall Mississippi State University Mailbox H Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: 662-325-3604 E-mail: jward@history.msstate.edu Education
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Education:
PhD, History, Yale University, 2008
Dissertation: "Saving Segregation: Saving Segregation: Southern Whites, Civil Rights, and the Roots of Massive Resistance, 1936-1954 "
Glenda E. Gilmore, AdvisorSole Runner-Up, Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize, Society of American Historians Finalist, C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, Southern Historical Association M.Phil, History, Yale University, 2006 M.A., History, Yale University, 2005 B.A., History Duke University, 2001 Research Interests Southern History, African American History, Twentieth Century United States Social and Political History, Comparative Race Relations Publications Books: 
Defending White Democracy: The Making of the Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence, Grassroots Struggle, and America's Civil Rights Century (in progress)Selected Articles and Essays: 
"'A War for States' Rights': The White Supremacist Vision of Double Victory." In Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Kevin Kruse and Stephen G. N. Tuck. Oxford University Press, 2011)"'A Richmond Institution': Earnest Sevier Cox, Racial Propaganda, and Organized Opposition to the Civil Rights Movement," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 116 (September 2008): 262-93. "Nazis Hoe Cotton: Planters, POWs, and the Future of Farm Labor in the Deep South," Agricultural History 81:4 (Fall 2007): 471-492. Winner of the Everett E. Edwards Award from the Agricultural History Society for best article submitted by a graduate student. "'No Jap Crow": Japanese Americans Encounter the World War II South." Journal of Southern History 73 (February 2007): 75-104. Books reviewed for the Journal of Southern History, Georgia Historical Quarterly and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Courses Taught HI 1073 United States History since 1877 HI 3093 Historiography and Historical Methods HI 4163 The United States, 1917 to 1945 HI 4173 The United States Since 1945 HI 4493 Terrorism in America HI 8823 Graduate Seminar on United States History since 1877 HI 8963 Graduate Colloquium in United States History Since 1945 |