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Jason Morgan WardRacial PoliticsTwentieth Century South 219 Allen Hall Mississippi State University Mailbox H Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: 662-325-0585 E-mail: jward@history.msstate.edu Education
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| I am interested in the evolution of racial politics in the twentieth-century United States. My current research focuses on the politics of white supremacy in the two decades before the Brown decision, examining how southern defenders of segregation mobilized in opposition to the civil rights movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Education: - PhD, History, Yale University, 2008 Dissertation: "Saving Segregation: The Roots of Massive Resistance, 1936-1954" Glenda E. Gilmore, Committee Director - M.Phil, History, Yale University, 2006 - M.A., History, Yale University, 2005 - B.A., History Duke University, 2001\ Academic Career - Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2008- - Part-Time Acting Instructor, Yale University, Spring 2008 Research Interests - Southern History, African American History, Twentieth Century United States Social and Political History, Comparative Race Relations Publications - “‘A Richmond Institution’: Earnest Sevier Cox, Racial Propaganda, and Organized Opposition to the Civil Rights Movement,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (forthcoming) - “Beyond the Barbed Wire: Interracial Encounters in Wartime Arkansas,” The View from Both Sides of the Barbed Wire Fence, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas (forthcoming, January 2008) - “‘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. |