The University of Georgia, Department of History

Christopher Lawton

Antebellum South; regionalisms; cultural and intellectual history

Graduate Student
Office: 334 LeConte
Office Hours: MW 2:30-3:30 By Appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2660

crlawton@uga.edu

Research and Teaching Interests

[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Early America]
[Imperialism & Colonialism]
[U.S. South]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]

Dissertation

"Re-Envisioning the South: William and T. Addison Richards, Georgia Illustrated, and the Cultural Politics of Antebellum Sectionalism," supervised by Dr. John Inscoe (In Progress)

Selected Publications

"Constructing the Cause, Bridging the Divide: Lee's Tomb at Washington's College," Southern Cultures (Summer 2009)

"Review essay on Stacey Jean Klein, Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (March 2008)

"The Pilgrim's Progress: Thomas J. Jackson's Journey towards Civility and Citizenship," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (March 2008)

"Review of Kevin O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth, eds., Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing From Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900," Agricultural History (Winter 2007)

Honors and Awards

Gilder Lehrman Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Summer 2009)

Cleanth Brooks Dissertation Forum, The St. George Tucker Society (August 2009)

John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill (2009-2010)

Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. Award, UGA History Department (2009)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, American Philosophical Society (2008-2009)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, The Graduate School Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Georgia (2008)

Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA Department of History, Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants (2008)

Best Paper, Southern American Studies Association Conference (2005)

John and Barbara Nau Graduate Fellow, The Stonewall Jackson Foundation and Washington and Lee University (2001)