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Scholars:

• Keith Bohannon, Exhibition Scholar

• Steve Goodson

• Georgina DeWeese

• Stephen Berry

 

 

 

Dr. Keith Bohannon, Associate Professor
University of West Georgia Department of History

U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern U.S. History; Georgia History

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2001
 

Keith Bohannon is co-editor of a volume entitled, A Georgian with "Old Stonewall" in Virginia: The Letters of Ujanirtus Allen, Company F, 21st Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry (LSU Press, 1998) and the author of numerous published essays.

Selected Publications

Co-edited with Randall Allen, A Georgian with "Old Stonewall in Virginia: The Letters of Ujanirtus Allen, Company F, 21st Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998).

Co-authored Hallowed Banners: Historic Flags in the Georgia Capitol Collection (Atlanta: Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, 2005).

" ‘The Fatal Halt’ versus ‘Bad Conduct’: John B. Gordon, Jubal Early, and the Battle of Cedar Creek," in Gary Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

" "Witness the Redemption of the Army:" Reenlistments in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, January-March 1864," Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe, eds.

Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005).

"John Bell Hood," in Leaders of the Lost Cause: New Perspectives on the Confederate High Command, Gary W. Gallagher and Joseph Glatthaar, eds., (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2004).

" ‘Placed on the Pages of History in Letters of Blood:’ Reporting on and Remembering the 12th Georgia Infantry in the 1862 Valley Campaign," in Gary Gallagher, ed., The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

" ‘They Had Determined to Root Us Out:’ Dual Memoirs by a Unionist Couple in Blue Ridge Georgia," in John Inscoe and Robert Kenzer, eds., Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001).

 

 

Dr. Steve Goodson, Professor
University of West Georgia Department of History

Ph.D., Emory University, 1995

Dr. Goodson’s work focuses primarily on the history of commercial entertainment in the United States.

Selected Publications:

Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930 (University of Georgia Press, 2002). Recipient of the Georgia Historical Society’s Malcolm Bell, Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for Best Book on Georgia History, 2003

Co-editor, with Elaine McClarnand, West Georgia’s Studies in the Social Sciences issue entitled ‘The Impact of the Cold War on American Popular Culture,” (May 1999). Co-authored the issue’s introductory essay.

“This Mighty Influence For Good or For Evil: The Movies in Atlanta, 1895-1915,” Atlanta History (Fall 1995/Winter 1996).

“Hillbilly Humanist: Hank Williams and the Southern White Working Class,” Alabama Review (April 1993).
 

 

Dr. Georgina DeWeese, Assistant Professor
University of West Georgia Department of Geosciences

Biogeography, Physical geography

Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2007

Dr. DeWeese's work in dendroarchaeology has included the historical dating of structures, musical instruments, furniture and paleo-indian artifacts.  Her dissertation on research in fire-climates in the eastern ecosystems led to her involvement with the Georgia Trail of Tears Association.  She is currently working to discover the authenticity of the Chief John Ross House in Rossville, which is thought to be the oldest building in the region, built in 1797.  She plans to continue her efforts with GTTA to expand the documentation of landmarks along the Trail of Tears throughout Georgia. 

Selected Publications

Georgina DeWeese Wight and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer. 2004. Dendroarchaeological dating of an Antebellum Period house, Forsyth County, Georgia, U.SA. Tree-Ring

Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Georgina G. DeWeese, and D.A. Williams. 2005. Tree-ring dating of the Karr-Koussevitzky double bass. Tree-Ring Research 61(2): 77-86.

Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Christopher M. Gentry, Steve Croy, John Hiatt, Ben Osborne,
Amanda Stan, and Georgina DeWeese Wight. 2006. Fire History of Western Montana
forested landscapes via tree-ring analyses. In James H. Speer (editor), Experimental Leaning and Exploratory Research: The 13th Annual North American Dendroecological Fieldweek (NADEF). Indiana State University Professional Paper Series 23: 46-56.

Honors & Awards

Sponsored Operations Faculty Research Enhancement Award, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 2007. $4,088.79

Student Research Assistant Program Award, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 2007. $2100.00

Publication Award, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, 2005, 2006, and 2007

Professional Accomplishment Award, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, 2004 and 2006

Field Work Award, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, 2004

Robert C. West Field Research Award, Department of Geography, Louisiana State
University, 2000

 

 

Dr. Stephen Berry, Assistant Professor
University of Georgia Department of History

Antebellum & Civil War America; U.S. South; gender, family, culture

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000

Stephen Berry's teaching and writing focus on the Civil War as a lived experience.  He is interested in how men and women reacted to, were changed by, and endured after, the conflict reshaped their lives.

Selected Publications

Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (University of Georgia Press and Southern Texts Society, 2007) Editor [More Info]

House of Abraham: Lincoln & The Todds, a Family Divided by War (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) [More Info]

"When Metal Meets Mettle," North & South (July 2006)

"The Lithographer's War," North & South (May 2005)

All That Makes a Man: Love & Ambition in the Civil War South (Oxford University Press, 2003) [More Info]

Honors and Awards

Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (2006-2007)

Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (2006)

Scholarly Research Fellowship, Kentucky Historical Society (2005)

 

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