Commentators & Invited Speakers
A.D. Carson (reception speaker)
A.D. Carson is a PhD student in Rhetorics, Communication and Information Design (RCID) at Clemson University. He is a former writer-in-residence for Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public Radio Program at Benedictine University, and has authored two books: COLD, a novel, and The City: [un]poems, thoughts, rhymes & miscellany. These and his other works can be accessed at his website.
Matt Childs (commentator)
Matt Childs is an associate professor of history and the Director of the History Center at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Childs' research interests focus on Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic history, with a particular emphasis on the legacies of slavery and racism. He is the author of The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery (2006), which was a finalist for the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and has co-edited volumes with Toyin Falola, James Sidbury, and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra. Learn more about Dr. Childs' work at the USC history department website.
Jim Cobb (commentator)
A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Jim Cobb, the B. Phinizy Spalding Professor in History at the University of Georgia, 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 (1993), The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (1992), and Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (2005). His most recent book, The South and America Since World War II, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He blogs at Cobbloviate.
Shane Hamilton (commentator)
Shane Hamilton is an associate professor in the history department at the University of Georgia and the associate director of the Center for Virtual History. His first book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (2008) won the 2009 Theodore Saloutos Award for Best Book in Agricultural History. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal Enterprise & Society and has published articles and reviews in Agricultural History, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, and Technology and Culture. He is currently working on a book project entitled Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race, which has been funded by a National Science Foundation Scholar's Award. Learn more about Dr. Hamilton at the UGA history department website.
Kelly Happe (commentator)
Kelly Happe is assistant professor and Undergraduate Coordinator in the department of communication studies at the University of Georgia, where she also holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Women's Studies. Her current research focuses on the body, biocapital, political subjectivity, and radical economic thought, and her work has appeared in scholarly publications such as The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Journal of Medical Humanities, among others. She was awarded the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association for her book, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project (2013), and the 2014 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for her essay "The Body of Race: Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Racial Ideology." Learn more about Dr. Happe at the UGA Department of Communication Studies website.
Allan Kulikoff (commentator)
Allan Kulikoff is the Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Georgia's history department. His first book, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake 1680-1800 (1986) was the winner of the American Historical Association's Dunning Prize and the Southern Historical Association's Simkins Award. He is also the author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992) and From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2000). His current research focuses on class identity in early America. Learn more about Dr. Kulikoff at the UGA history department website.
Jennifer Rice (commentator)
Jennifer Rice is an assistant professor in the geography department at the University of Georgia. Her work draws on political ecology, urban political geography, and science-policy studies to examine the relationship between "nature" (as the non-human), state practices, and social institutions. She has published in Professional Geographer, Human Ecology, and Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Learn more about Dr. Rice at the UGA geography department website.
Woody Holton (keynote speaker)
Woody Holton is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He teaches early American history with a focus on economic history and on African Americans, Native Americans, and women, with upcoming seminars on slave rebellions and on the history of capitalism in North America. His book, Abigail Adams (2009), won the Bancroft Prize, and he is also the author of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007) and Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999), which received the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti award. Read more about Dr. Holton at the USC history department website.
A.D. Carson is a PhD student in Rhetorics, Communication and Information Design (RCID) at Clemson University. He is a former writer-in-residence for Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public Radio Program at Benedictine University, and has authored two books: COLD, a novel, and The City: [un]poems, thoughts, rhymes & miscellany. These and his other works can be accessed at his website.
Matt Childs (commentator)
Matt Childs is an associate professor of history and the Director of the History Center at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Childs' research interests focus on Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic history, with a particular emphasis on the legacies of slavery and racism. He is the author of The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery (2006), which was a finalist for the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and has co-edited volumes with Toyin Falola, James Sidbury, and Jorge Canizares-Esguerra. Learn more about Dr. Childs' work at the USC history department website.
Jim Cobb (commentator)
A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Jim Cobb, the B. Phinizy Spalding Professor in History at the University of Georgia, 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 (1993), The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (1992), and Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (2005). His most recent book, The South and America Since World War II, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He blogs at Cobbloviate.
Shane Hamilton (commentator)
Shane Hamilton is an associate professor in the history department at the University of Georgia and the associate director of the Center for Virtual History. His first book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (2008) won the 2009 Theodore Saloutos Award for Best Book in Agricultural History. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal Enterprise & Society and has published articles and reviews in Agricultural History, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, and Technology and Culture. He is currently working on a book project entitled Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race, which has been funded by a National Science Foundation Scholar's Award. Learn more about Dr. Hamilton at the UGA history department website.
Kelly Happe (commentator)
Kelly Happe is assistant professor and Undergraduate Coordinator in the department of communication studies at the University of Georgia, where she also holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Women's Studies. Her current research focuses on the body, biocapital, political subjectivity, and radical economic thought, and her work has appeared in scholarly publications such as The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Journal of Medical Humanities, among others. She was awarded the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association for her book, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project (2013), and the 2014 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for her essay "The Body of Race: Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Racial Ideology." Learn more about Dr. Happe at the UGA Department of Communication Studies website.
Allan Kulikoff (commentator)
Allan Kulikoff is the Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Georgia's history department. His first book, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake 1680-1800 (1986) was the winner of the American Historical Association's Dunning Prize and the Southern Historical Association's Simkins Award. He is also the author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism (1992) and From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2000). His current research focuses on class identity in early America. Learn more about Dr. Kulikoff at the UGA history department website.
Jennifer Rice (commentator)
Jennifer Rice is an assistant professor in the geography department at the University of Georgia. Her work draws on political ecology, urban political geography, and science-policy studies to examine the relationship between "nature" (as the non-human), state practices, and social institutions. She has published in Professional Geographer, Human Ecology, and Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Learn more about Dr. Rice at the UGA geography department website.
Woody Holton (keynote speaker)
Woody Holton is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He teaches early American history with a focus on economic history and on African Americans, Native Americans, and women, with upcoming seminars on slave rebellions and on the history of capitalism in North America. His book, Abigail Adams (2009), won the Bancroft Prize, and he is also the author of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007) and Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999), which received the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti award. Read more about Dr. Holton at the USC history department website.
The Global Capitalism Initiative at UGA would like to thank the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts for their generous funding of this conference.