Blain Roberts
Assistant Professor
Office: Social Sciences 118
Email: broberts@csufresno.edu
Office phone: 278-8677
Education:
PhD - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MA - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M. Litt. - University of St. Andrews
BA - Princeton University
Research/Teaching Interests:
20th Century U.S.; U.S. Women's History; U.S. Cultural History; the American South; Memory
Select Publications:
Books:
Struggling with Slavery in the Cradle of the Confederacy: Memory and the "Peculiar Institution" in Charleston, South Carolina. Book manuscript under revision for publication [co-authored with Ethan J. Kytle]
Pretty Women: Female Beauty in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights South. Under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.
Articles and Book Chapters:
"Looking the Thing in the Face: Slavery, Race, and the Commemorative Landscape of Race in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-2010," Journal of Southern History (August 2012) [co-authored with Ethan J. Kytle]
"'Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?': Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston," in Karen L. Cox, ed., Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History (University Press of Florida, 2012) [co-authored with Ethan J. Kytle]
"Uncovering the Confederacy of the Mind, Or How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey's Church," Southern Cultures (forthcoming, Summer 2013)
"A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression, Southern Cultures (12:2, Summer 2006)
Op-ed essays for the New York Times and the History News Network.
Courses Offered:
Undergraduate
U.S History, 1877 to the Present
U.S. Women's History
U.S. Cultural History, 1877 to the Present
History and Women's Autobiography
Advanced Historical Research and Writing
Post-baccalaureate
Introduction to Graduate Writing and Historiography
The Civil Rights Movement
Work in Progress:
I am currently co-writing a book with my colleague Ethan J. Kytle on the memory of slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, from the end of the Civil War to the present.
