Thomas J. Little Associate Professor of History Emory & Henry College Personal Information

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1 Thomas J. Little Associate Professor of History Emory & Henry College Personal Information Date of birth: July 7, 1963 Office address: Department of History Emory & Henry College Garnand Drive P.O. Box 947 Emory, Virginia Telephone: office (276) ; cell (276) Fax: (276) Education and Degrees Postdoctoral: NEH Institute in Religion & Diversity, Haverford College, summer 1996 Ph.D., History, Rice University, 1995 M.A., History, Rice University, 1995 (awarded during straight-through Ph.D. program) M.A., History, University of South Carolina, 1989 B.A., History, University of South Carolina, 1987 Teaching Experience Associate Professor, Emory & Henry College, 2003-present Assistant Professor, Emory & Henry College, Adjunct Instructor and Research Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, (sabbatical) Adjunct Instructor, University of St. Thomas, Adjunct Instructor, Houston Community College, summer 1990 Graduate Assistant and Adjunct Instructor, University of South Carolina, Other Professional Experience Program Director, M.A.Ed. in American History, Emory & Henry College, 2013-present Chair, Department of History, Emory & Henry College, 2009-present Director, Appalachian Oral History Project, Emory & Henry College, 1995-present Graduate Assistant, Journal of Southern History, Rice University, Research Assistant, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, summer 1989 Archivist II, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina, Academic Honors, Awards and Grants 2014 Colonel Lee B. Ledford Scholarship Faculty Mentor, Appalachian College Association, Excellence in Teaching Award, Emory & Henry College, 2012 Washington County Chamber of Commerce Teacher of the Year, 2012 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, Emory & Henry College, 1998 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Preparing for 2007" Grant, Lynn E. May, Jr. Study Grant, Southern Baptist Historical Commission, 1997 Appalachian College Association Faculty/Student Research Grant, 1996 Appalachian College Association John B. Stephenson Fellowship, 1996 James Still Fellowship, Faculty Scholars Programs, University of Kentucky, 1995

2 Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Mednick Fellowship, 1995 Pi Gamma Mu Social Science Honorary Society, 1995 Barbara Field Kennedy Prize in American History, Rice University, 1994 Mary Hayes Ewing Publication Prize in Southern History, Rice University, 1993 George Brandau Award, Paul Carrington Chapter of the Texas Sons of the American Revolution, 1993 Sam Houston Fellowship in Southern History, Scottish Heritage Foundation, Houston, Texas, 1991 South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Graduate Research Fellowship, 1989 Hampton Award for Historical Excellence, University of South Carolina, 1987 Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society, Alpha Chapter of the University of South Carolina, 1987 Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary Society, University of South Carolina, 1987 Courses Taught at Emory & Henry General Studies 101, The Western Tradition I General Studies 102, The Western Tradition II Engaging the Liberal Arts 101, Human Foundations History 111, American History to 1861 History 112, American History since 1861 History 221, Studies in Revolution History 222, Studies in Colonialism History 229, African History History 306, Old South History 310, Social History of the Family History 313, Historical Demography History 318, Appalachian History History 331, Caribbean History History 350, Manumission in the Atlantic World History 350, Religion in Early America History 431, Comparative Slavery and Race Relations History 434, African American History History 502, Colonial and Revolutionary America History 503, Middle Period America Publications Authored books The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013). Finalist, George C. Rogers Book Award, South Carolina Historical Society Book chapters Adding to the Church Such As Shall Be Saved : The Growth in Influence of Evangelicalism in 2

3 Colonial South Carolina, , in Jack P. Greene, Randy J. Sparks, and Rosemary Brana-Shute, eds., Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001), Journal articles and essays The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Revivalism in South Carolina, , Church History 75 (December 2006): The Records of the Ashley River Baptist Church, , Journal of the South Carolina Baptist Historical Society 27 (November 2001): Constructing a Sense of Ourselves: Tracing Through Our Colonial Past Some Thoughts on What It Means To Be An American, International Social Science Review (May 1997): George Liele and the Rise of Independent Black Baptist Churches in the Lower South and Jamaica, Slavery and Abolition 16 (August 1995): The South Carolina Slave Laws Reconsidered, , South Carolina Historical Magazine 93 (April 1993): Encyclopedia entries Bartholomew Dandridge, in Dictionary of Virginia Biography, 3 vols. (Richmond, Va.: The Library of Virginia, 2006), 3: Historical exhibitions Editorial Contributor, The James Poyas Daybook: The Account of a Charles Town Merchant, , Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, Book reviews Book reviewer for the Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, North Carolina Historical Review, Florida Historical Quarterly Emory & Henry College publications 1998 The Appalachia Oral History Project Program Guide and Manual for Interviewers, August Conferences, Papers and Lectures Lecture, Religion and the American Revolution in the U.S. South, Annual Meeting of the General William Campbell Chapter of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Abingdon, VA, April 6,

4 Seminars Keynote address, Meridian Splendor : The Great Revival in the Holston and Watauga Settlements of Southwest Virginia and Upper East Tennessee, Annual Meeting of Washington County Historical Society, Abingdon, VA, March 26, 2003 Seminar presentation, "Churches and Clergy in Colonial South Carolina: A Quantitative Analysis," Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA, September 6, 1997 Seminar presentation, "Mobility, Migration, and the Development of Evangelical Protestantism in the Eighteenth-Century Southern Anglophone American World," International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 3-11, 1996 Conference presentation, "`Adding to the Church Such As Shall Be Saved': Evangelical Churches in Colonial South Carolina, ," New Directions in Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, May 20, 1995 Conference presentation, "Discovering the Peoples and Cultures of Southwest Virginia: The Appalachian Oral History Project at Emory & Henry College," Second Annual Symposium on the History and Culture of Southwest Virginia, Virginia Highlands Community College, Abingdon, VA, April 1, 1995 Conference presentation, "American Black Baptists and the Development of a Creole Society in Jamaica: The Case of George Liele," Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, St. George's, Grenada, May 28, 1992 Conference presentation, "The South Carolina Slave Laws Reconsidered, ,"Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 29, 1991 Mellon Foundation Seminar for Faculty, "Transforming the Curriculum," Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA, May 19-23, Director: Dr. Reginald Wilson, Senior Scholar, American Council for Education. NEH Institute in Religion and Diversity, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, July 8- August 9, Director: Dr. Emma Lapsanski, Professor of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection, Haverford College. Fellow, Jessie Ball DuPont Summer Seminar for Liberal Arts College Faculty, "What Is An American?," National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, June 3-24, Directors: Dr. Andrew Delbanco, Professor of American Studies, Columbia University Dr. John Kasson, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professional Memberships, Activities and Interests Memberships 4

5 American Historical Association American Society of Church History Organization of American Historians South Carolina Historical Society Southern Historical Association Activities Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Southern History Manuscript reviewer, South Carolina Historical Magazine Interests American Religious History Southern History Early Modern Atlantic World Caribbean History Comparative Slavery & Race Relations Service To Emory & Henry College Member, Program Prioritization Committee, Spring 2014 Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Economics, Member, Graduate Council, 2013-present Member, Academic Policies Committee, 2011-present; Chair, Member, CORE Curriculum Review Committee, Member, Honor Appellate Council, Member, Foundations I Task Force, Member, Faculty Personnel Committee, ; Chair, Faculty Representative, Emory & Henry College Student Senate, Member, Social Appellate Council, Member, Academic Standards Committee, Member, Central Judicial Board, , Member, Library and Academic Resources Committee, , ; Chair, Secretary of the Faculty, Faculty Representative, Truman Scholarship Program, Member, SACS Self-Study Committee on Student Activities, To the Department of History Program Director, MA.Ed. in American History, 2013-present Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of America and the World, Chair, Department of History, 2009-present Member, History Curriculum Review Committee, Member, Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Europe, Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Medieval History, Member, History Curriculum Workshop, Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Medieval European History, ; Director, Appalachian Oral History Project, 1995-present Co-Director, Virginia History Day District 2 Competition, 1995-present; Coordinator, 2002; 2012-present Campus activities Faculty Advisor and Sponsor, Sigma Iota Social Fraternity, 2002-present Faculty Advisor and Sponsor, Emory & Henry Young Democrats, 1999-present 5

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