Christopher A.

Graham
2010 Laurel Park Hwy 1C, Hendersonville, NC 28739 * 828-808-1116 *
cagraham@uncg.edu

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:
Academic
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
2014-2015
Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010-2014
Lecturer, Elon University, 2012
Adjunct Professor, Guilford Tech Community College, Jamestown, N.C.,
2008-2013
Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 20092010
Public History
Associate Curator, North Carolina Museum of History, 2000-2005
Associate Curator of Education, North Carolina State Historic Sites,
2005-2008
SERVICE:
Advisory Board, Digital Library on American Slavery, University
Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015
Volunteer, Virgin Islands National Park, Scope of Collections Statement,
2015
Faculty co-sponsor, History Club, Guilford Tech Community College,
2011
Chair, Student Affairs Committee, North Carolina Museums Council,
2009-2011
Secretary, North Carolina Museums Council, 2005-2006
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 Carolinas Unionists
by Barton A. Myers, in North Carolina Historical Review, Volume 92
(April 2015).
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).
Review of Company A, Corps Of Engineers, U.S.A., 1846-48, In The
Mexican War by Gustavus Woodson Smith, edited by Leonne M.
Hudson, in Civil War History 49 (2003).
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Review of Carolina Moonshine Raiders, by Frank Stephenson, Jr., in

North Carolina Historical Review LXXIX (October 2002).
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS:
Allen W. Trelease Graduate Fellowship, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, History Department, 2011-2012.
Archie K. Davis Fellowship, The North Caroliniana Society, 2010.

PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS:

Discipline and the Irony of Orthodoxy and Change in Antebellum North
Carolina, 79th annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association,
St. Louis, MO, November 1, 2013
The Irony of Discipline and Change in Piedmont North Carolina, 28th
Biennial Conference on Faith & History, Gordon College, Wenham,
Mass., October 6, 2012.
Domestic Felicity in the Antebellum South, North Carolina State
University Graduate Student History Conference, Raleigh, North
Carolina, March 17, 2012.
Discipline, Religion, and the Limits of Anti-Slavery in Piedmont North
Carolina, 2011 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, July 24, 2011.
Religion and the Limits of Anti-Slavery in Piedmont North Carolina,
2011 Graduate History Conference, Louisiana State University, March
26, 2011.
Commentator, The Civil War as a Sensory Experience, Society of Civil
War Historians Third Biennial Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, June 15,
2012.
Commentator, Public History and Preservation at Home and Around
the World, 22nd Annual Graduate History Forum, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, March 27, 2010.
"Be Prepared: Museums and the Sesquicentennial," North Carolina
Museums Council annual meeting, Fayetteville, North Carolina, March
6, 2008.
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"Collections Planning at the North Carolina Museum of History," North

Carolina Museums Council annual meeting, Hickory, North Carolina,
March 12, 2007.
"North Carolina Quartermaster Operations during the Civil War,"
numerous locations.
"From Hillbilly to Redneck and Back," numerous locations.

REFERENCES:
Charles C. Bolton, Professor and Department Head, History
Department, UNCG, 336.334.5204, ccbolton@uncg.edu
Mark Elliot, Associate Professor, History Department, UNCG,
336.334.5992, meelliot@uncg.edu
John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of
American History, UNC-Charlotte, 704-687-5157, jdsmith4@uncc.edu