Southern history and culture

Professor, Spalding Distinguished Research Professor
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1975

Office: 228 LeConte
Office Hours: T 1-4 W 11-12 By Appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2474

cobby@uga.edu

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A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Cobb has written widely on the interaction between economy, society and culture in the American South. His books include The Selling of The South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 (Illinois, 1993), and The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (Oxford , 1992). His most recent book, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity, was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. To read some of his work, check out http://cobbloviate.com.

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Oxford University Press, 2005) [More Info]

"An Epitaph for the North: Reflections on the Politics of Regional and National Identity at the Millenium," Journal of Southern History (Feb. 2000)

The Mississippi Delta and the World: The Memoirs of David L. Cohn (Louisiana State Press, 1995) editor

The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 (University of Illinois Press, 1993) [More Info]

The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (Oxford University Press, 1992) [More Info]

Perspectives on the American South, Vol. IV (Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1987) coeditor

Perspectives on the American South, Vol. III (Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1985) coeditor

The New Deal and the South (University Press of Mississippi, 1984) coeditor

Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984 (University Press of Kentuckyky, 1984) [More Info]

Honors and Awards

Parks-Heggoy Teaching Award, History Graduate Students Association (2008)

McClemore Prize, Mississippi Historical Society, Outstanding book in Mississippi history (1992)

Green-Ramsdell Award, Journal of Southern History, Best article (1990-91)

Green-Ramsdell Award, Journal of Southern History, Best article (1988-89)

E. Merton Coulter Award, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Best article (1984)

Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Study (1982)

Phi Kappa Phi

Phi Alpha Theta

Phi Eta Sigma

Courses Taught

HIST4990: Senior Seminar [Syllabus]

HIST8030: Seminar in Recent United States History [Syllabus]

Dissertations Supervised

Hill, John Paul, ""A.B. 'Happy' Chandler and the Politics of Race"" (In Progress)

Kirby, Jason, "TBA" (In Progress)

Merritt, Keri Leigh, "?" (In Progress)

Olsson, Tore, "Eating and Growing the Global in the Nuevo New South, 1965-2000" (In Progress)

Tucker, Kathryn, "TBA" (In Progress)

Forts, Franklin, "Troubled Manhood: The Construction of African-American Masculinity, 1965-2000" (2007)

Giesen, James Conrad, "The South's greatest enemy? The Cotton Boll Weevil and Its Lost Revolution, 1892-1930" (2004)

Gillespie (McRae), Elizabeth, "Raising Jim Crow: White Southern Women and the Politics of White Supremacy" (2004)

Macaulay, Alexander S., "Tradition vs. Change: The United States and the Citadel, 1945-95" (2004)

Nystrom, Justin A., "Redeemer's Carnival" (2004)

MA Theses Supervised

Manthorne, Jason, "Hoover Days: The South's Landless Farmers in the Great Depression" (2006)

Hatfield, Edward A., "Marta and the Marking of Suburban Conservatism" (2006)

Millin, Eric Tabor, "Defending the sacred hearth" (2002)

Nystrom, Justin A., "The coup on Canal: redemption and the White League in New Orleans, 1874" (2000)

Marshall, Anne Elizabeth, "Louisville and the Lost Cause Memory, Identity, and the Creation of a Confederate City" (2000)