The University of Georgia, Department of History

Darren Grem

20th century U.S. cultural and religious history, South/Sunbelt, transnational history, music

Graduate Student
Ph. D. Candidate, University of Georgia

Office: 310 LeConte
Phone: (706)-255-8083

deg@uga.edu

For more info about my teaching and research interests, go to http://deg.myweb.uga.edu/

Research and Teaching Interests

[Religion]
[Capitalism]
[U.S. South]
[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Transnational]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]

Dissertation

"The Blessings of Business: Corporate America and Conservative Evangelicalism in the Sunbelt Age, 1945-2000," supervised by Dr. James C. Cobb (In Progress)

MA Thesis

"Nothing But Good Clean Fun: Alcohol Culture and Reform in Upstate South Carolina, 1945-1972," supervised by Dr. Bryant Simon (2004)

Selected Publications

"Missionaries in the Marketplace: S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A, and Christian Entrepreneurialism in the Sunbelt South," in Sunbelt Rising, ed. Darren Dochuk and Michelle Nickerson (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming)

"Selling a 'Disneyland for the Devout': Religious Marketing at Jim Bakker's Heritage USA," in Shopping for Jesus: Faith in Marketing in the USA, ed. Dominic Janes (Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2008)

"Sam Jones, Sam Hose, and the Theology of Racial Violence," Georgia Historical Quarterly (Spring 2006)

"All in Good Fun: Alcohol Culture and Recreational Space in Post-War Upstate South Carolina," Southern Historian (Spring 2006)

"'The South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop America," Southern Cultures (Winter 2006)

Honors and Awards

Numan V. Bartley Dissertation Research Award, UGA History Department, Granted annually to fund dissertation research for graduate students of American/U.S. history (2008)

Warner-Fite Award, UGA History Department, Presented annually to an outstanding student in American/U.S. history (2008)

American History Dissertation Research Award, Colonial Dames of America, Granted annually to fund dissertation research for students of American/U.S. history (2007)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UGA Graduate School, Presented annually by the Graduate School to outstanding teaching assistants (2005)