I am an Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. My research and teaching interests include: the nineteenth century American South, municipal debt, railroad finance, city infrastructure, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and prohibition.

 

My first book, Savannah’s Midnight Hour, has been published by the University of Georgia Press.

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PUBLICATIONS

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• "At the Midnight Hour': Economic Dilemmas and Harsh Realities in Post-Civil War Savannah" Georgia Historical Quarterly (2006).

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• "‘But what a pretty thing a Rail Road is!–We must have one of our own–positively!”: Savannah’s Unique Rhetoric of Internal Improvements.” The Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians (2010)

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• "Worshiping Bacchus: Prohibition in Savannah, Georgia, 1899-1922." Law, Crime and History (UK) (2011)

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VIDEO PRESENTATIONS

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• "The State of Chatham: Savannah's Wet Romp through Prohibition," February 2016

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• “‘But what a pretty thing a Rail Road is! – We must have one of our own – positively!’: the Origins of the Central of Georgia Railroad," February 2017

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