The University of Georgia, Department of History

Keri Leigh Merritt

Class and race in the 19th-century U.S. South

Graduate Student
BA, Emory 2003; MA UGA 2007; PhD UGA in progress

klm13@uga.edu

Research and Teaching Interests

[African American]
[Capitalism]
[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Political & Legal]
[U.S. South]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[War and Diplomacy]

Dissertation

"?," supervised by Dr. James C. Cobb (In Progress)

MA Thesis

""'A Vile and Profligate Course of Life': Poor Whites and the Enforcement of Vagrancy Law in Antebellum Georgia"," supervised by Dr. John Inscoe (2007)

Honors and Awards

James C. Bonner Master's Thesis Award, Georgia Historical Society (2009)

Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. Award, Department of History, University of Georgia, to a distinguished student with interest in Georgia history (2008)

Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Graduate Level, The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (GHRAB), for MA thesis (2007)