David H. Connolly Jr. University of North Georgia Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy Dahlonega, Georgia 30597 (706) 867 3511 Education (Houston, Texas) Ph. D., United States History, 2008 Dissertation: A Question of Honor: State Character and the Lower South s Defense of the African Slave Trade in Congress, 1789 1807 Advisor: Dr. John Boles Qualifying exams in the fields of nineteenth-century U.S. South, Colonial and Early American history, and Caribbean history, passed August 2002 M.A., History, 2003 University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia) M.A., History, 2000 Thesis: The Conservative Republicanism of Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin: The Political, Economic, and Moral Regeneration of the Antebellum South. Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University (Macon, Georgia) J.D., 1980 Presbyterian College (Clinton, South Carolina) B.S., 1976 Awards and Honors 2002, Co-recipient, James C. Bonner Award for the best Master s Thesis on Georgia History for 2000-2001. Awarded by the Georgia Historical Society and the Center for Georgia Studies at Georgia College and State University. 2000, Carl S. Vipperman Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia, Department of History. 1978-1980, Member, Mercer Law Review, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University 2000-2005, Departmental Fellowship
Grants 2 2003, Travel Grant, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) Publications and Presentations Book Note: The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays. Edited by Christopher C. Meyers (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2009), Journal of Southern History 75 (May 2009): 516. Review: The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond. Edited by Barry Alan Shain (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007), Journal of Southern History 76 (August 2010): 703-05. Review: Helen Clark, The Yazoo Land Fraud (Louisville, Ga.: Jefferson County Historical Society, 2009), Journal of Southern Legal History 19 (2011): 337. Review: Paul Pruitt, Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804 1929 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010), Journal of Southern History 77 (November 2011): 932-33. Review: David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds., Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012), Journal of Southern History (Forthcoming) Review: Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter, eds., Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013), Journal of Southern History (Forthcoming) Article: "Remembering the Founding Fathers: Joseph Henry Lumpkin and the Preservation of an Antebellum Republican South," Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South 46, no. 1 (2004). New Georgia Encyclopedia Entries (an Internet website sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council, the Office of the Governor, the University of Georgia Press, and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO): Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) Henry Harford Cumming (1799-1866) Co-author, Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress: Liability to the Bystander Recent Developments, 30 Mercer Law Review 735 (1979)
3 Presentation, The Yazoo Land Fraud and the Nature of Bribery and Political Corruption, Georgia Legal History Foundation Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, May 24, 2012. Presentation, Judge John Erskine and the Reconstituted Federal Court in Reconstruction Georgia, Court Advisory Committee for the United States District Court, Southern District of Georgia, Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida, February 25, 2012. Presentation, Henry Cumming, Secession, and the Rule of Law, Augusta and the Civil War in 1861 Symposium, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia, November 12, 2011. Panel Presentation, The Constitution as Moral Standard: State Character and the South Carolina Defense of the African Slave Trade, 1790-1807, South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, March 12, 2011. Presentation, Planters, Plantations, and Southern Identity, Augusta-Richmond County Historical Society, Augusta, Georgia, November 18, 2008. Conference Presentation, Awakening of the National Consciousness: The Quakers and the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in the United States, Conference on the Black Experience: The Abolition of the Slave Trade: 200 Years of the Black Diaspora, Paine College, Augusta, Georgia, February 7, 2008. Presentation, A Connecticut Yankee in the South: Edward Hooker s Sojourn, Augusta Museum of History Brown Bag Lecture Series, Augusta, Georgia, October 6, 2004. Presentation, "Joseph Henry Lumpkin's Evangelicalism and Secular Judicial Practice: The Twain Shall Never Meet," Legal History Seminar (Prof. E. Ray Lanier), Georgia State University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, February 26, 2003, and March 15, 2010. Presentation, The Cumming Family at War, Civil War Symposium, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia, May 8, 2003. Teaching Experience and Employment Instructor, University of North Georgia (August 2012-Current) Courses Taught: United States History I and II Historiography Georgia History (On-line) History of the Old South U.S. Legal History University Service: Speaker, Constitution Day, September, 2012
Company Advocate, Corps of Cadets, Foxtrot Company (On-going) Student Grade Appeal Committee Faculty Advisory Board, University Press of North Georgia Reader, University Press of North Georgia 4 Departmental Service: History 2000 (Historiography) Revision Committee (Ad Hoc) Supervisor: Dr. Timothy May Chair, Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy 82 College Circle Dahlonega, Georgia 30597 (706) 864-1913 Lecturer, Georgia College & State University, August 2007-May 2012 Courses Taught: Colonial South Georgia History: From Colony to State Revolutionary America Revolutionary America: Reacting to the Past United States History Through Reconstruction United States History Since Reconstruction Historical Research and Writing United States Abolitionism Through the Civil War Antebellum Plantation Society and Culture History of the Atlantic Slave Trade World Civilization II (Since 1500) Southern Constitutionalism and Sectionalism Southern History In Film Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Auerbach (interim chair) Georgia College & State University Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy CBX 047 Milledgeville, Georgia 31061 0490 (478) 445-8276 Departmental Service: Historical Research and Writing/Senior Thesis Committee (ad hoc) Teacher Assessment Revision Committee (ad hoc) University Service: Faculty Affairs Policy Committee (2011-2012)
Adjunct Instructor, North Harris College, January-May 2007; January-May 2006, August 2005- May 2006 Courses Taught: U.S. History since 1877 U.S. History to 1877 Supervisor: Dr. Jim Good North Harris College 2700 W.W. Thorne Dr. Houston, Texas 77073-3499 (281) 618-5573 5 Grading Group Manager, Freshman Composition Exam, Summer 2006 6100 Main Street Houston, Texas 77005 Supervisor: Dr. Deborah J. Barrett (713) 348-5394 Duties included grading freshmen essays to determine their need for additional instruction in academic writing. Additionally, I supervised a panel of graders ensuring timely completion and consistent application of the exam s guidelines. I also served on the appeals panel. Instructor, St. Thomas Episcopal School, Fall 2004-June 2005 Courses Taught: Ninth Grade, U.S. History to 1860, Fall 2004 Eighth Grade, Ancient and Medieval History, Fall 2004-June 2005 St. Thomas Episcopal School 4900 Jackwood St Houston, Texas 77235-5096 (713) 666-3111 Supervisor: Col. John Hilliard Mock SAT Essay Grader, March April 2005 Knowsys Test Prep 1528 Babbling Brook Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75050 (972) 602-7968 Supervisor: Dr. Sheila Griffith Duties involved assessing quality of practice SAT essays and conformity to SAT test standards.
6 Research Assistant, University Governance Committee, February-September 2003 6100 Main Street Houston, Texas 77005 Supervisor: Dr. John Ambler (713) 348-3370 Researched university governance organizations and structures for faculty committee considering changes in faculty governance institutions Adjunct Instructor, U.S. History to 1877, Spring 2003 Houston Community College, Central Campus 1300 Holman St. Houston, Texas 77004 Supervisor: Dr. John Moretta (713) 718-6229 Instructor,, U.S. History to 1877, Summer 2003 6100 Main Street Houston, Texas 77005 Contact: Carolee Schenk (713) 348-6110 Research Assistant to Prof. Alex Lichtenstein, Fall 2002 Department of History MS-42, P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77251-1892 Supervisor: Dr. Alex Lichtenstein (713) 348-2397 Duties centered on researching debt/peonage law in twentieth-century U.S. South. Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, 1998-2000 Assisted professors in U.S. History Survey courses both to and from 1877. Prepared and conducted two weekly discussions regarding topics and themes raised in the survey course lectures. Each discussion group consisted of 25 students. Responsible for grading tests and assigned papers, meeting with students regarding course performance and related issues. Supervisors: Varied Law Practice: 1992-1998 Attorney, solo practice, Savannah and Springfield, Georgia, focusing on civil
litigation, criminal defense, and corporate law. (Licensed to practice law in Georgia and South Carolina. Licenses voluntarily surrendered after entering ) 7 1988-1992, Attorney (partner) with the law Firm of Painter, Ratterree, Connolly, and Bart, Savannah, Georgia, with a concentration in civil litigation 1983-1988, Attorney (associate 1983-1985, partner 1985-1988) with the law firm of Karsman, Brooks, Painter, and Callaway, Savannah, Georgia, with a concentration in civil litigation 1981-1983, Law clerk for the Hon. Dudley H. Bowen, Jr., United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 1980-1981, Law clerk for the Hon. William R. Killian, Judge, Superior Courts, Brunswick Judicial Circuit, Brunswick, Georgia Related Experience 2000-2002, Graduate Editorial Assistant, Journal of Southern History, Supervisor: Dr. John Boles, (713) 348-6039 Community Service Current, Member, Board of Selections, Georgia Women of Achievement Current, Adult Literacy Program, Dahlonega, Georgia (Tutor and Steering Committee Member) Member, Leadership Lumpkin Class of 2014