U.S. South, Early America, Capitalism, Gender & Sexuality, U.S. 19th Century

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Office: 126 LeConte
Office Hours: MW 2:30pm-3:30pm
tch315@uga.edu

Chase's dissertation examines the expansion of the young U.S. republic into the frontier South. Within his work, he explores the significance and relevance of what this expansion meant to Americans migrating to the emerging deep South as well as for individuals who were displaced by American settlement. Chase locates the processes of identity and community formation, the political economy of education, frontier literature, the commodification of land and other practices that contributed to a rewriting of the frontier in the Old Southwest village of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Research and Teaching Interests

Dissertation

Selected Publications

"Comparative review of From New Babylon to Eden by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and To Make This Land Our Own by Arlin C. Migliazzo," Georgia Historical Quarterly (Summer 2009)

"Alabama's Territorial Period and Early Statehood," Encyclopedia of Alabama (Fall 2008) [More Info]

"Review of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster," Journal of the Early Republic (Winter 2008)

Courses Taught