Graham public history resume

Christopher
 A.
 Graham
 
2010
 Laurel
 Park
 Hwy
 1C,
 Hendersonville,
 NC
 28739
 *
 828-­‐808-­‐1116
 *
 [email protected]
 
 

 

EDUCATION:
 
Ph.D,
 History,
 University
 of
 North
 Carolina
 at
 Greensboro,
 2013
 
M.A.
 History,
 North
 Carolina
 State
 University,
 1998
 
B.A.
 History,
 George
 Mason
 University,
 1994
 

 
EXPERIENCE:
 
Public
 History
 
Associate
 Curator,
 North
 Carolina
 Museum
 of
 History,
 2000-­‐2005
 
Associate
 Curator
 of
 Education,
 North
 Carolina
 State
 Historic
 Sites,
 2005-­‐2008
 

 
• Developed
 collecting
 plans
 for
 NCMoH
 military
 collection
 
• Co-­‐created
 interpretive
 planning
 document
 adopted
 in
 2006
 
• Initiated
 visitor
 studies
 program
 
• Created
 curation
 section
 Re:Discovery
 user
 manual
 
• Conceptualized,
 researched,
 and
 wrote
 exhibits
 on
 moonshine,
 David
 
“Carbine”
 Williams,
 ongoing
 open
 storage,
 and
 civil
 engineering.
 Contributed
 
to
 exhibits
 and
 associated
 publications
 on
 health
 and
 healing,
 the
 Civil
 War,
 
and
 the
 Civil
 Rights
 movement
 
 
• Accessioned,
 processed,
 and
 cataloged
 artifact
 collections
 
• Developed
 social
 media
 policy
 for
 the
 Department
 of
 Cultural
 Resources
 
• Chaired
 North
 Carolina
 Historic
 Sites
 historic
 costume
 committee
 
• Assisted
 various
 sites
 in
 educational
 program
 development
 
• Served
 as
 secretary
 and
 chair
 of
 student
 affairs
 committee
 of
 the
 North
 
Carolina
 Museums
 Council
 

 
Academic
 
Visiting
 Assistant
 Professor
 of
 History,
 University
 of
 North
 Carolina
 at
 Greensboro,
 
2014-­‐2015
 
Previous
 teaching
 as
 an
 Instructor
 at
 Elon
 University,
 UNC-­‐G,
 and
 Guilford
 Technical
 
Community
 College,
 2008-­‐2014
 

 
• Perform
 research
 in
 federal,
 state,
 local,
 and
 private
 repositories
 on
 
government
 documents,
 institutional
 records,
 personal
 manuscripts,
 and
 
genealogical
 sources.
 Guide
 students
 in
 similar
 research
 methodologies
 
• Teach
 classes
 in
 western,
 world,
 American,
 southern,
 and
 North
 Carolina
 
history
 at
 four
 year
 and
 community
 colleges.
 
 
• Direct
 student
 projects
 in
 collaboration
 with
 local
 historic
 sites
 and
 museums
 
• Present
 papers
 and
 chaired
 panels
 at
 various
 academic
 conferences
 
• Publish
 scholarly
 articles
 and
 book
 reviews
 for
 academic
 journals
 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS
 AND
 REVIEWS:
 

 
Essays
 on
 “Destruction
 of
 Slavery
 (Confederate
 Emancipation).”
 Defining
 Documents
 
in
 American
 History:
 The
 Civil
 War,
 Volume
 2.
 James
 McPherson,
 ed.
 Ipswich,
 MA:
 
Salem
 Press,
 2014.
 

 
“Evangelicals
 and
 ‘Domestic
 Felicity’
 in
 the
 Non-­‐Elite
 South.”
 Journal
 of
 Southern
 
Religion,
 15
 (2013):
 http://jsr.fsu.edu/issues/vol15/graham.html
 

 
“Factory
 Workers,
 Southern.”
 The
 World
 of
 the
 Civil
 War:
 A
 Daily
 Life
 Encyclopedia,
 
Lisa
 T.
 Frank,
 ed.
 ABC-­‐CLIO,
 Inc.,
 2015.
 
 

 
"Reading
 the
 Regulators."
 Journal
 of
 Backcountry
 Studies
 III
 (Winter/Spring
 2008).
 

 
"Women's
 Revolt
 in
 Rowan
 County."
 Columbiad:
 A
 Journal
 of
 The
 War
 Between
 the
 
States
 IV
 (Spring,
 1999).
 

 
Review
 essay,
 The
 Catawbans:
 Crafters
 of
 a
 North
 Carolina
 County
 and
 The
 
Catawbans:
 Pioneers
 in
 Progress
 by
 Gary
 R.
 Freeze,
 in
 Journal
 of
 Backcountry
 Studies,
 
(2011).
 

 
Review
 of
 The
 Civil
 War
 in
 Southern
 Appalachian
 Methodism
 by
 Durwood
 Dunn,
 in
 
Tennessee
 Historical
 Quarterly,
 forthcoming.
 

 
Review
 of
 Rebels
 Against
 the
 Confederacy:
 North
 Carolina’s
 Unionists
 by
 Barton
 A.
 
Myers,
 in
 North
 Carolina
 Historical
 Review,
 forthcoming.
 

 
Review
 of
 Edmund
 G.
 Ross,
 Soldier,
 Senator,
 Abolitionist
 by
 Richard
 Ruddy,
 in
 Journal
 
of
 Southern
 History,
 Volume
 81
 (February
 2015).
 

 
Review
 of
 Freedom
 in
 a
 Slave
 Society:
 Stories
 from
 the
 Antebellum
 South
 by
 Johanna
 
Nicol
 Shields,
 in
 The
 Register
 of
 the
 Kentucky
 Historical
 Society,
 Vol.
 112
 (Winter
 
2013).
 

 
Review
 of
 Upbuilding
 Black
 Durham:
 Gender,
 Class,
 and
 Black
 Community
 
Development
 in
 the
 Jim
 Crow
 South
 by
 Leslie
 Brown,
 in
 The
 Public
 Historian,
 31
 (May
 
2009).
 

 
Review
 of
 Military
 Necessity:
 Civil-­‐Military
 Relations
 in
 the
 Confederacy,
 by
 Paul
 D.
 
Escott,
 in
 North
 Carolina
 Historical
 Review
 LXXXV
 (April
 2008).
 

 
Review
 of
 What
 This
 Cruel
 War
 Was
 Over:
 Soldiers,
 Slavery,
 and
 the
 Civil
 War,
 by
 
Chandra
 Manning,
 in
 North
 Carolina
 Historical
 Review
 LXXXV
 (January
 2008).