R. Scott Huffard Jr.

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1 R. Scott Huffard Jr. PO Box 1537 Lees-McRae College Banner Elk, NC Banner Elk, NC (814) (828) EDUCATION, Ph.D., Gainesville, Florida, American History, Dissertation Title: Perilous Connections: Railroads, Capitalism and Mythmaking in the New South Advisor: Sean P. Adams Committee Members: William A. Link, Sheryl Kroen, Paul Ortiz, Pamela Gilbert, M.A., Gainesville, Florida, American History, Pennsylvania State University, B.A, State College, Pennsylvania, History (with honors), Phi Beta Kappa. Also majored in Political Science, Minor in German, ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of History, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina, 2013 PUBLICATIONS Major Publications: Perilous Connections: Railroads, Capitalism and Mythmaking in the New South, Manuscript Project under revision. Going off the Rails: Railroad Nightmares and the New History of Capitalism, Contribution to a collection edited by Glenn Feldman, Money, History and Capitalism, collection is being submitted for review to University of Pennsylvania Press. Ghosts, Wreckers and Rotten Ties: The 1891 Train Wreck at Bostian s Bridge, Southern Cultures, Summer Infected Rails: Yellow Fever and Southern Railroads, Journal of Southern History, February Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Articles: Review of De Bow s Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South, by John Kvach in Journal of East Tennessee History, CV 1

2 Review of The Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South, by H. Roger Grant in Ohio Valley History, Review of Railroads for Michigan, by Graydon Meints in Northwest Ohio History, th Century Business and Industry in American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume Four, 19th Century, Review of Southern Society and its Transformations, edited by Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie and Louis M. Kyriakoudes, in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Review of Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation by John Majewski in Alpata: A Journal of History, PRESENTATIONS Conference Presentations: Driver 8 Take a Break: Railroad Time and Speed In Southern Train Songs, Music of the South Symposium, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, April 2014, Oxford, Mississippi. We ll be on time or we re leaving the rails: Railroad Speed and the Perils of the New South. Business History Conference, March 2013, Columbus, Ohio. Creating the Main Line of Mid-America, The Illinois Central Railroad in the South, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, November 2012, Mobile, Alabama. At once ubiquitous, promiscuous, frequent and numerous: Rube Burrow and the Southern Railroad Network. Monsters and Myths in the Making, History Graduate Society Interdisciplinary Symposium, April 2012, Gainesville, Florida. Damnable Conspiracies: Train Wrecking the in the Southern Imagination. Southern Industrialization Project Annual Meeting, June 2011, Long Beach, Mississippi. Contesting New South Capitalism: The Career of Railroad Bill. Capitalism in Action: Harvard University Graduate Student Conference on the History of Capitalism, March 2011, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Perilous Connections: Railroads in the post-reconstruction South. Business History Conference Oxford Journals Dissertation Colloquium, March 2010, Athens, Georgia. CV 2

3 "Yellow Jack Rides the Rails: Jacksonville's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888 and Florida's Railroads" Southern Industrialization Project Annual Meeting, June 2008, Kennesaw, Georgia. Public Lectures and Seminars: The 1891 Wreck at Bostian s Bridge and the Haunted History of the Western North Carolina Railroad, Stephenson Center for Appalachia Lecture Series, January 2014, Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina. Yellow Jack Rides the Rails: Yellow Fever and Florida s Railroads, presented at the Milbauer Seminar on the American South,, February 2009, Gainesville, Florida. AWARDS AND HONORS External Grants and Awards: William F. Holmes Award, given for the best paper by a graduate student or junior faculty member at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Newberry Library Short Term Fellowship, research award from the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, Archie K. Davis Fellowship, research award from the North Caroliniana Society, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Filson Fellowship, research award from the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky, Harpers Ferry Internship Scholarship, Richards Civil War Center, Pennsylvania State University, Internal Grants and Awards (): Graduate School Dissertation Completion Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Declined), James Wilkerson Dissertation Research Award,, Samuel L. Proctor Award, given for best paper in Southern History, History Department, Milbauer Research Award,, CV 3

4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lees-McRae College (Assistant Professor) HIS 115 Intro to World Civilizations HIS 120 US and the World HIS 260 Problems in US History I (Early Republic) HIS 377 Comparative World Civilizations HIS 421 Civil War and Reconstruction (Instructor of Record) AMH 2010 US History to 1877 AMH 2020 US History 1877 to Present (Teaching Assistant) AMH 4571 Civil War and Reconstruction AMH 2010 US History to 1877 AMH 2020 US History 1877 to Present RESEARCH INTERESTS Southern history, cultural history of capitalism, business history, history of railroads, Civil War and Reconstruction RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE Reader, AP US History Exam, Educational Testing Service, 2012, Education Intern, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Research Assistant for Dr. Amber Boydstun, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California - Davis, Research Assistant for Dr. Sean P. Adams,, Staff Assistant, Penn State University Engineering Library, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Business History Conference Southern Historical Association Organization for the Study of Southern Economy, Culture and Society SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE History Program Coordinator, Lees-McRae College, CV 4

5 Curriculum Committee Member, Lees-McRae College, 2014 Planning Committee Member, Stephenson Center for Appalachian Studies, Lees-McRae College, Committee Member, CLAS Graduate Mentoring Award, 2012 Graduate Assistants United, History Department Steward, History of Capitalism Workshop, Coordinator, REFERENCES: Dr. Sean P. Adams, Associate Professor of History,, spadams@ufl.edu (352) Dr. William A. Link, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History,, linkwa@ufl.edu (352) Dr. Sheryl Kroen, Associate Professor of History,, stkroen@ufl.edu (352) CV 5