Resume

• 2017

  Associate Department Head

  •Primary responsibility to construct the annual academic course schedule for the department \n•Manage the peer review of faculty teaching for the department\n•Identified and corrected via paperwork submission to the UNCG Graduate Studies Committee the course titles and schedule type designation of three graduate courses from SEM to IND in order to more accurately reflect faculty FTE production and produce a more accurate Instructional Analysis Summary Report

  2017-18\n•Corrected departmental understanding of the UNCG Online paperwork required for teaching online courses

  resulted in less paperwork for the department

  2017\n•Corrected departmental understanding of the undergraduate course scheduling guidelines

  resulting in more scheduling flexibility for the department

  Department of History

  UNC Greensboro

• 2010

  Department of History

  UNC-Greensboro

  UNC Greensboro

  Department of History

  UNC Greensboro

  University of Southern Mississippi

  UNC-Greensboro

  Program in Native American Studies

  Dartmouth College

  UNC-Greensboro

  •Oversaw advising of graduate students in all aspects of the MA & PhD programs \n•Enacted policy changes in the following areas: PhD dissertation proposals

  PhD dissertation defenses

  PhD mentorship

  MA comprehensive exams

  PhD comprehensive exams

  and policy on online courses taken by graduate students\n•Guided the graduate program through the UNCG Program Review (2011-12)

  Departmental Self-Study and Outside Review (2013-14)

  and the College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Program Review (2014-15)\n•Oversaw the revision of the PhD minor fields from three defined fields to one flexible field focused on World/Global History

  2011\n•Oversaw the revision of the MA program from three concentrations (U.S.

  Europe

  and concentration in Museum Studies) to two concentrations (MA in History and concentration in Museum Studies)

  2012-13\n•Created several departmental graduate program web-pages to publicize the careers and\taccomplishments of our graduate students and alumni in 2011

  constantly updated

  Department of History

  UNC-Greensboro

• 2002

  Department of History

  University of Southern Mississippi

  Department of History

  University of Southern Mississippi

  Professor

  UNC Greensboro

  Professor

  University of Southern Mississippi

  Program in Native American Studies

  Dartmouth College

  Hanover

  NH

  Visiting Professor

• 1996

  PhD

  American History

  Phi Kappa Phi

  Academic Honor Society

  University of Kentucky

• 1992

  MA

  History

  Phi Alpha Theta

  History Honor Society

  James Madison University

• 1984

  BA

  History & Political Science

  Randolph-Macon College

• Grant Writing

  Curriculum Design

  Teaching

  Lecturing

  University Teaching

  Public Speaking

  Higher Education

  Editing

  Writing

  Microsoft Office

  Nonprofits

  History

  Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age

  1750-1830

  This evocative story of the Choctaws is told through the lives of two remarkable leaders

  Taboca and Franchimastabé

  during a period of revolutionary change

  1750-1830. Both men achieved recognition as warriors in the eighteenth century but then followed very different paths of leadership. Taboca was a traditional Choctaw leader

  a \"prophet-chief\" whose authority was deeply rooted in the spiritual realm. The foundation of Franchimastabé's power was more externally driven

  resting on trade with Europeans and American colonists and the acquisition of manufactured goods. Franchimastabé responded to shifting circumstances outside the Choctaw nation by pushing the source of authority in novel directions

  straddling spiritual and economic power in a way unfathomable to Taboca. The careers of these leaders signal a watershed moment in Choctaw history – the receding of a traditional mystically oriented world and the dawning of a new market-oriented one. \r\nAt once engaging and informative

  Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age

  1750–1830 highlights the efforts of a nation to preserve its integrity and reform its strength in an increasingly complicated

  multicultural world.

  Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age

  1750-1830

  “Indigenous Mississippi Literature”

  Backcasts celebrates this centuries-old confluence of fly fishing and conservation. However religious

  however patiently spiritual the tying and casting of the fly may be

  no angler wishes to wade into rivers of industrial runoff or cast into waters devoid of fish or full of invasive species like the Asian carp. So it comes as no surprise that those who fish have long played an active

  foundational role in the preservation

  management

  and restoration of the world’s coldwater fisheries. With sections covering the history of fly fishing; the sport’s global evolution

  from the rivers of South Africa to Japan; the journeys of both native and nonnative trout; and the work of conservation organizations such as the Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited

  Backcasts casts wide.\n\nHighlighting the historical significance of outdoor recreation and sports to conservation in a collection important for fly anglers and scholars of fisheries ecology

  conservation history

  and environmental ethics

  Backcasts explores both the problems anglers and their organizations face and how they might serve as models of conservation—in the individual trout streams

  watersheds

  and landscapes through which these waters flow.

  “The Fly-Fishing Engineer: George T. Dunbar

  Jr. and the Conservation Ethic in Antebellum America”

  From 2013 to 2018

  I was executive editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Native South.

  Native South Journal

  Tamara Harvey

  George Washington's South brings together a diverse array of essays by scholars in the fields of history

  literature

  art history

  and anthropology

  focusing on Washington

  the development of regional identity in the South

  and interactions among many of the region's people. The contributors examine the relationship between George Washington's varied and contradictory careers as a southern planter

  general

  and president and the emergence of the American South during the 18th century. They explore how regional identity is formed and how the life of Washington reflects the diversity of race

  gender

  and frontier experiences that confronted the American South during the years of the Early Republic.

  George Washington's South

  The history of Native Americans is a varied story of different tribes and loyalties preceding European contact

  of near eradication when Europeans first settled

  of colonization

  collaboration

  war

  dispossession

  attempts at assimilation and the ultimate establishing of reservations.\n\nIn the 15th and 16th centuries the first contact with Europeans introduced diseases to North America that some tribes were wiped out completely. The reintroduction of the horse to North America by the settlers changed the way that the Native Americans lived and hunted. As the British and French in the 17th century fought over their colonies

  so they also fought over the alliances with Native American tribes

  only for the British and the newly proclaimed United States in the 18th century to repeat the pattern. After American Independence

  the Native American lands were encroached upon even further

  leading to a move westward.\n\nA Chronology of Native Americans charts the history of the Sioux

  Cherokee

  Mohawk and other tribes of North America from prehistory through the centuries of European settlement and reservations to the present day. The book includes full-colour and black and white artworks and photographs. At the foot of each text page is a timeline linking events that were happening elsewhere at the time.

  Chronology of Native Americans

  In the past two decades

  new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going.\n \nDistinguished scholars James Taylor Carson

  Patricia Galloway

  and Clara Sue Kidwell join editor Greg O’Brien to present today’s most important research

  while Choctaw writer and filmmaker LeAnne Howe offers a vital counterpoint to conventional scholarly views. In a chronological survey of topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s

  essayists take stock of the great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory.\n \nGalloway explains the Choctaw civil war as an interethnic conflict. Carson reassesses the role of Chief Greenwood LeFlore. Kidwell explores the interaction of Choctaws and Christian missionaries. A new essay by O’Brien explores the role of Choctaws during the American Revolution as they decided whom to support and why. The previously unpublished proceedings of the 1786 Hopewell treaty reveal what that agreement meant to the Choctaws.\n \nTaken together

  these and other essays show how ethnohistorical approaches and the “new Indian history” have influenced modern Choctaw scholarship. No other recent collection focuses exclusively on the Choctaws

  making Pre-removal Choctaw History an indispensable resource for scholars and students of American Indian history

  ethnohistory

  and anthropology.\n

  Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths

  Hurricanes

  floods

  oil spills

  disease

  and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat

  frequency

  and management of this region’s disasters from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Scholars from the fields of history

  sociology

  and anthropology examine the underlying causes of vulnerability to natural hazards in the coastal states while also suggesting ways to increase resilience.\nGreg O’Brien considers the New Orleans flood of 1849; Andy Horowitz

  the Galveston storm of 1900; and Christopher M. Church

  the 1928 hurricane in Florida and the Caribbean. Urmi Engineer Willoughby delves into the turn-of-the-century yellow fever outbreaks in New Orleans and local attempts to eradicate them

  while Abraham H. Gibson and Cindy Ermus discuss the human introduction of invasive species and their long-term impact on the region’s ecosystem. Roberto E. Barrios looks at political-ecological susceptibility in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward

  and Kevin Fox Gotham treats storm- and flood-defense infrastructures. In his afterword

  Ted Steinberg ponders what the future holds when the capitalist state supports an unwinnable battle between land developers and nature.\nThese case studies offer new ways of understanding humans’ interactions with the unique

  and at times unforgiving

  environment of the Gulf South. These lessons are particularly important as we cope with the effects of climate change and seek to build resilience and reduce vulnerability through enhanced awareness

  adequate preparation

  and efficient planning.

  “Satire and Politics in the New Orleans Flood of 1849”

  In The Native South

  Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship systems

  Cherokee notions of guilt and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence

  Indian captives and American empire

  and second-wave feminist activism among Cherokee women in the 1970s

  The Native South offers a dynamic examination of ethnohistorical methodology and evolving research subjects in southern Native American history. \n\nTheda Perdue and Michael Green

  pioneers in the modern historiography of the Native South who developed it into a major field of scholarly inquiry today

  speak in interviews with the editors about how that field evolved in the late twentieth century after the foundational work of James Mooney

  John Swanton

  Angie Debo

  and Charles Hudson.\n\nThis collection offers original essays for scholars

  graduate students

  and undergraduates in this field of American history

  including Mikaela Adams

  James T. Carson

  Tim Alan Garrison

  Izumi Ishii

  Malinda Maynor Lowery

  Rowena McClinton

  David Nichols

  Greg O’Brien

  Meg Devlin O’Sullivan

  Julie Reed

  Christina Snyder

  and Rose Stemlau.

  The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies

  Greg