1 Dr. Charles Raymond Westmoreland, Jr. 209 Jobe Hall, Box 3162 Delta State University Cleveland, MS 38733 (662) 846-4174 cwestmoreland@deltastate.edu I. CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor of History, Division of Social Sciences and History, College of Arts and Sciences, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi Coordinator, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program II. EDUCATION Ph.D., History, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi (2008) Major Field: U.S. History, 1877-Present Minor Fields: Southern History, 1865-Present; Modern Europe Dissertation: Southern Pharisees: Prayer, Public Life, and Politics in the South, 1955-1996 Committee: Ted Ownby, director; Charles Reagan Wilson; Elizabeth Payne; Adam Gussow M.A., History, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina (2000) Thesis: Strong Legs Running: The Integration of the North Carolina-South Carolina Shrine Bowl Committee: David Goldfield, director; Cynthia Kierner; Donna Gabaccia B.S., History, Ferrum College, Ferrum, Virginia (1998) III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Delta State University, Assistant Professor of History (Fall 2009-Present) Surveys United States History to 1865 (HIS 201) United States History, 1865-Present (HIS 202) Upper-Division Courses (Also available for graduate credit) Historiography and the Philosophy of History (HIS 400/500) Mississippi History (HIS 411/511) African American History (HIS 433/533) Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877 (HIS 437/537)
2 U.S. History, 1877-1917 (HIS 438/538) The U.S. since 1945 (HIS 440/540) American Civil War Military Operations II: Vicksburg (HIS 444/544) Sports in American Culture and Society (HIS 445/545) The New South, 1865-Present (HIS 457/557) Special Topics: Religion in America (HIS 492/592) Special Topics: The U.S in the 1960s (HIS 492/592) Individual Research and Writing (HIS 498) Independent Studies in History (HIS 499) Graduate Courses Seminar in United States History, 1945-Present (HIS 630) Seminar in the History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta (HIS 632) Individual Studies: The History of Jim Crow; The History of Higher Education in the South (HIS 689) Advanced Independent Study in History: From Strange Career to The Help: Race, Civil Rights, and Southern Historiography (HIS 799) University of Mississippi, Graduate and Adjunct Instructor (2004-2009) Surveys United States History to 1865 United States History, 1865-Present European History, 1648-Present Upper-Division Courses The Civil Rights Era The History of Mississippi Southern Religious History The U.S. since 1945 Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Adjunct Instructor (2001-2003) Western Civilization I and II United States History I and II The U.S. in the 1960s Walters State Technical Community College, Adjunct Instructor (2003) World Civilization I and II University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Adjunct Instructor (2000) United States History II
3 IV. SCHOLARSHIP Book Sole author, Southern Pharisees: The Politics of Prayer from Civil Rights to the Christian Right, 1955-1996 (Advanced contract through the University of Georgia Press) Co-author, Mississippi Perspectives: A Bicentennial History of Mississippi s Statehood, published by the Office of the Secretary of State of Mississippi (I will be responsible for the chapter on the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta) Book Reviews Review of James P. Marshall, Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965, Journal of Southern History (August 2014), 762-3 Review of Samuel G. London, Jr., Seventh-Day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement, Journal of Southern History (May 2011), 471-472 Review of Mary Stanton, The Hand of Esau: Montgomery s Jewish Community and the Bus Boycott, The Journal of Southern Religion, vol. 10, 2010, http://jsr.fsu.edu/volume12/westmoreland%20on%20stanton.html Review of Patrick Miller, ed., The Sporting World of the Modern South, H-South, H-Net Reviews, January 2007, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=59041176475975 Review of R. Douglas Hurt, ed., The Rural South since World War II, Southern Historian, vol. 22 (Spring 2001): 108-110 Encyclopedia Entries Archie Manning, Bishop Knox, and Mahmoud Abdul-Rouf, The Mississippi Encyclopedia (forthcoming) School Prayer in Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris, series editors, James W. Ely, Jr. and Bradley G. Bond, volume editors, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 10: Law and Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008) Charles Barkley and Wallace v. Jaffree, Encyclopedia of Alabama http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/article.jsp?id=h-1251 http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/article.jsp?id=h-1623 Everett Case, Clarence Gaines, Wallace Wade, and Leroy Walker in Howard Covington, Marion Ellis, and Jeffrey Crow, eds., The North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference, 1900-2000 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
4 Newspaper Article Co-Author with Benjamin O. Sperry, White Citizens Councils: A Racist Creed, Guest Column for the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, December 29, 2010 Conference Papers Whatever Happened to Separation of Church and State? : Southern Baptists and the Debates over School Prayer, Porter L. Fortune History Symposium, University of Mississippi, February 27, 2015 To Preach Only the Bible: Billy Graham s 1952 Jackson Crusade and the Dilemma of Preachers and Politics in the Modern South, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 5, 2010 Since 1962: School Prayer, National Decline, and the Rise of the New Christian Right, Southwestern Historical Association Meeting, Houston, Texas, April 2, 2010 Four Rs, Not Three: Southern Evangelicals, the Rhetoric of Place, and the School Prayer Debates, Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association Meeting, Delta State University, February 18, 2010 God Out and Negroes In: The Intersection of School Prayer and the Civil Rights Movement, Race and Place Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 11, 2008 No Easy Rider: Archie Manning, an Embattled Mississippi, and the Youth of the Sixties, North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Annual Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, May 19, 2006 Seeking Truth and Authenticity: Southern Baptists and the Question of Innocuous School Prayer, Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium in Religious Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 31, 2006 Not Only on Saturdays and Sundays, But Every Day: The Southern Evangelical Argument for School Prayer, Society for the History of Education in the South (SHOES) Conference, University of Mississippi, March 17, 2006 Nothing Else But God: The Roles of Prayer in the Civil Rights Movement, Mid-America Conference on History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, September 23, 2005 Strong Legs Running: The Integration of the North Carolina-South Carolina Shrine Bowl, Annual Graduate Conference in African-American History, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 20, 2000
5 Storming the Bastille: Francis Pickens Miller, McCarthyism, and the 1949 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary in Virginia, Annual Graduate History Association Forum, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, March 18, 2000 A Dust Bowl in the Magic Kingdom: The 1941 Disney Studio Strike and the Politics of Anti-Communism, Annual Graduate History Association Forum, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, March 20, 1999 Invited Lectures and Presentations The Backbone of History: Why Archives Matter to All of Us, Presentation given for the Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Award for Delta State University, November 13, 2012 Whatever Happened to School Prayer? Thinking Historically about School Prayer and the South, Brown Bag Lecture Series, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, October 24, 2012 No Religious Test Shall Ever Be Required: The Question of Faith and the Presidency since 1928, Constitution Week Activities, Delta State University, September 20, 2012 More Than MLK: Teaching Civil Rights Then, Now, and in the Future, Third Annual Civil Rights Movement and Oral History in the Mississippi Delta Program, Delta State University, September 21, 2011 The Pursuit of Genuine Christianity: Understanding the Debate over Civil Rights, School Prayer, and Religion in the Modern South, Staley Lecture Series, Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, November 21-23, 2010 The History and Politics of BBQ, Lecture in Conjunction with BBQ Joints: Stories and Secret Recipes from the Barbecue Belt, Delta State University, October 13, 2010 Religion in the Mississippi Delta, NEH Workshop, The Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, Culture, and History in the Mississippi Delta, Delta State University, July 14, 2009 Organizer Panel, Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle in Birmingham, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, November 3, 2013 Panel, Billy Graham and the Modern South, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 5, 2010 Moderator/Chair Panel, Getting Over to the Academic Historical Community: Scholarly Analysis of Professional Wrestling in the Mid 20th Century, Louisiana Historical Society, March 7,
6 2015. Lecture, Dr. Benjamin Sperry, Mr. Delta: Walter Sillers, Jr. and Fifty Years in Mississippi Politics, Mississippi Historical Society Annual Meeting, Jackson, Mississippi, March 4, 2011 Panel, Civil Rights in Mississippi featuring Dr. Byron D Andra Orey (Political Science, Jackson State University) and Dr. Chris Myers Asch (Founder, U.S. Public Service Academy), Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium, University of Mississippi, February 19, 2010 Historical Consultant Consultant, Breaking Through: The Story of Jimmie Kirkpatrick, Myers Park Football, and Civil Rights in Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte Observer, February 2013. V. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Coordinator Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program (Fall 2012-present) Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society (Fall 2012-present) Master of Education in Secondary Education Program, History Concentration (Fall 2009-present) Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society (Fall 2010-present) Committees Member, Diversity Advisory Committee (Fall 2014-present) Co-Chair, Winning the Race Conference on Race Relations, (Fall 2014-Spring 2015) Member, Student Success Advisor Job Search Committee (Summer 2014) Member, Social Justice and Criminology Job Search Committee (Spring 2014-present) Member, Graduate Council (Fall 2013-present) Member, Provost Search Committee (Summer and Fall 2013) Member, Writing Proficiency Exam Appeals Committee (Fall 2012-present) Chair, History Curriculum and Assessment Committee (Fall 2012-present)
7 Member, Social Sciences and History Development Team (Fall 2012-present) Chair, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Planning Committee (Fall 2012-present) Chair, U.S. History Tenure-Track Professor Search Committee (Fall 2012-Spring 2013) Member, European/World History Tenure-Track Professor Search Committee (Fall 2012-present) Chair, U.S. History Visiting Professor Search Committee (Spring 2012) Member, European/World History Visiting Professor Search Committee (Spring 2012) Member, Graduate Education Programs Committee (Fall 2011-present) Member, Special Programs Committee (Fall 2011-Spring 2012) Chair, Social Sciences and History Graduate Coordinators Committee (Fall 2010-present) Chair, European/World History Tenure-Track Professor Search Committee (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) Member, History Camp Committee (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) Member, University Textbook Committee (Fall 2010-Fall 2012) Member, Health and Wellness Committee (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) Member, Division of Social Sciences Chair Search (Spring 2009) Recruitment History Representative, Major Fair (Fall 2009-present) History Representative, DSU Day (Fall 2009-present) Miscellaneous Participant, Listening Session for the Mississippi Humanities Council Oral History Project, Mississippi: State of Change, April 7, 2015 Organizer, Civil War Sesquicentennial Lecture Series (Fall 2014-Spring 2015, funded by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council) Social Media Administrator, Facebook Pages for the History program, Master of Arts in
8 Liberal Studies, the Civil War Sesquicentennial Lecture Series, and the Diversity Advisory Committee (Fall 2013-present) Grader, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Comprehensive Exams (Spring 2014-present) Organizer, Birmingham Church Bombing Commemorative Program (Fall 2013) Participant and Discussion Leader, Introduction to Liberal Studies, GLS 600 (Fall 2012-present) Organizer, Randall Norris Lecture Program and Visit (Fall 2012) Interviewer, Oral History with Edsell Parks for Delta State Archives (Fall 2012) Participant, DSU Move-In Day (Fall 2012-present) Faculty Advisor, World War II Veterans Day Program (Fall 2011 and Fall 2012) Reader, Veterans Day Remembrance Program (Fall 2011-Fall 2012) Organizer, Cranford Lecture Series (Fall 2010-present) Organizer, Environmental History Lecture (Fall 2010) Organizer, Food Film Night with the DSU Archives, Fried Green Tomatoes (Fall 2010) Grader, Comprehensive Exams for the M.Ed. in History (Spring 2010-present) History Representative, Student Retention Summit (Spring 2010) Grader, Writing Proficiency Exam (Fall 2009 and Fall 2011) College of Arts and Sciences Representative, Healthy Campus Initiative Forum (Fall 2009) Organizer, History Film Night Series (Fall 2009-Spring 2013) VI. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITY Member, Mississippi Historical Society Select Study Committee (Fall 2014-) Member, Mississippi Historical Society Awards Committee (Fall 2013-present) Board Member, Mississippi Historical Society (Summer 2013-present)
9 Editor, News and Notices, Journal of Mississippi History (January 2011-present) Member, Southern Historical Association 2013 Program Committee (Fall 2012) Referee, Journal of Mississippi History (Spring 2011-present) Program Evaluator, Mississippi Humanities Council (Spring 2011) Member, American Historical Association Member, Southern Historical Association Member, Mississippi Historical Society Member, American Society of Church History VII. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS Grant Recipient, Sammy O. Cranford Memorial History Lecture, Delta State University, Mississippi Humanities Council (April 27, 2015) Grant Recipient, Civil War Sesquicentennial Lecture Series, Delta State and Coahoma County Higher Education Center, Mississippi Humanities Council (Fall 2014-Spring 2015) Nominee, Connected Educator Award, Delta State University (Fall 2014) Winner, Teacher of the Year, Delta State University, Mississippi Humanities Council (2012-2013) Graduate School Honors Fellowship, University of Mississippi (2006-2008) Lynn E. May, Jr., Study Grant, Southern Baptist Historical Archives and Library, Nashville, Tennessee (2006) J.L. and Diane Holloway Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Mississippi (2005-2006) Passed with Distinction, History Comprehensive Examinations, University of Mississippi (2005) Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper, History Department, University of Mississippi (2004) Master s Thesis Ward for Excellence in Humanities and Arts, Graduate School, University of North Carolina-Charlotte (2001) Award for Excellence in Teaching in Social Sciences/Humanities by a Graduate Teaching
10 Assistant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina-Charlotte (2000) Outstanding In-School Graduate Student Paper, Graduate History Association Forum, University of North Carolina-Charlotte (2000) Outstanding In-School Graduate Student Paper, Annual Graduate History Association Forum, University of North Carolina-Charlotte (1999) Outstanding Student in History, History, Political Science, and Criminal Justice Division, Ferrum College (1998) Magna Cum Laude, Ferrum College (1998) Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society, Ferrum College (1997) Bonner Scholar, Ferrum College (1994-1998)