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Matthew Jennings
478.471.5749
Professor
| Office Hours: | 9:30 am to 12:00 pm, Tuesday and Thursday, and by appointment. |
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| Courses: | I regularly teach both halves of American history (2111 and 2112). I've also offered classes in early and modern Native American history, early African American history, abolitionism, colonialism, historical methods and research, music in American history, Hollywood and history, Revolutionary-era America, and America from 1815 to 1848. |
| Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned) | Ph.D., History, University of Illinois, 2007 M.A., History, University of Illinois, 1999 A.B., History, University of Illinois, 1998 A.B., Art History, University of Illinois, 1998 |
| CV: | Matthew Jennings Department of History and Political Science 麻豆视频 Office: 109 School of Arts and Letters, Macon Campus Phone: 478-471-5749 matt.jennings@mga.edu Education Ph.D. History, University of Illinois, 2007 M.A. History, University of Illinois, 1999 A.B. History, University of Illinois, 1998 A.B. Art History, University of Illinois, 1998 Research and Teaching Interests Native American history, the history of colonialism and violence, early African American history, art and music history, the local history of Middle Georgia, and the Atlantic World. Publications and Related Work New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011. Ocmulgee: A Brief History with Field Notes. With Gordon Johnston. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018. The Flower Hunter and the People: William Bartram in the Native American Southeast. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2014. Ocmulgee National Monument. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2015. Macon. With Stephen Wallace Taylor. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. 鈥淰iolence in a Shattered World,鈥 in Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, eds., Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 鈥淐utting one anothers Throats鈥: English, Native, and African Violence in Early Carolina,鈥 in Michelle LeMaster and Brad Wood, eds., Crisis and Conflict in the Early Carolinas. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. 鈥淭errorism in America from the Colonial Period to John Brown,鈥 in Randall Law, ed., The Routledge History of Terrorism. London: Routledge, 2015. Invited talks, conference papers, reference works, book reviews, and articles, the majority related to Native American history, violence, art, and popular culture. |
| Professional Experience: | For a brief overview of my career to date, as well as links to some of my work, please see my website at http://mattjennings76.wordpress.com. |
| Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years) | My first book, New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast, came out in 2011, and my most recent, Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes (co-authored with Gordon Johnston), dates to 2018. I contributed chapters to Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall鈥檚 Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone and Michelle LeMaster and Brad Wood鈥檚 Creating and Contesting Carolina. In 2013, Stephen Wallace Taylor and I co-authored a pictorial history of Macon, and I've written one about Ocmulgee as well, both for the Images of America series. I also edited a new collection of William Bartram鈥檚 writings on Native Americans, published in 2014 as The Flower Hunter and the People: William Bartram in the Native American Southeast. |
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