O. Vernon Burton, Executive Director
Dr. Burton is a Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He teaches courses in U.S. social and political history, history of the south, race relations, Civil Rights movement, family & community studies, and quantitative techniques. More About Dr. Burton.
Contact Dr. Burton at vburton@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Simon K. Lewis, Interim Director
Dr. Lewis is an Associate Professor of English at the College of Charleston and editor of Illuminations. He teaches courses in African literature, Postcolonial literature and theory, and Contemporary South African literature, culture & poetry. More About Dr. Lewis.
Contact Dr. Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu
David T. Gleeson, UK Affiliate Director
Dr. Gleeson is a Professor of American History at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England. He teaches courses in American South in 19th Century,
Modern Ireland,
History of the South since 1865,
ST: Ireland since 1600, and
ST: Ireland and the Irish Diaspora. More About Dr. Gleeson.
Contact Dr. Gleeson at david.gleeson@northumbria.ac.uk
Lisa B. Randle, site coordinator for the Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project
Ms Randle holds degrees from the University of South Carolina: B.A. (International Studies), M.A. (Public History, Anthropology), Graduate Certificate (Historic Archaeology), and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Historic Archaeology. Her research area is East Branch of the Cooper River, Berkeley County, South Carolina. Contact Ms. Randle at randlel@cofc.edu
Program Associates
Rosemary Brana-Shute
Dr. Brana-Shute is an Professor Emerita of History at the College of Charleston. Her research focuses on slavery in the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. More About Dr. Brana-Shute.
Contact Dr. Brana-Shute at branashuter@cofc.edu
S. Max Edelson
Dr. Edelson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He specializes in Colonial America, Environmental History, U.S. South and Caribbean, and Slavery and Plantation Societies.
Contact Dr. Edelson at edelson@virginia.edu
Samuel M. Hines, Jr.
Dr. Hines is Provost and Dean of the College at The Citadel. More About Provost Hines.
Contact Dr. Hines at sam.hines@citadel.edu
W. Scott Poole
Dr. Poole is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of Charleston. He teaches courses in
Society and Culture of Early Charleston,
South Carolina in the New South,
History of South Carolina, Religion in the American South. His research focuses on South Carolina and historical memory and African American history and the Civil War. More About Dr. Poole.
Contact Dr. Poole at poolews@cofc.edu
David S. Shields
Dr. Shields is the McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He specializes in Early American Literature,
History of the Book,
Southern Studies,
and Intellectual History of the early modern Atlantic World. More About Dr. Shields.
Contact Dr. Shields at dshields@gwm.sc.edu
Randy J. Sparks
Dr. Sparks is an Associate Professor of History at Tulane University and Interim Director of the Deep South Regional Humanities Center. He specializes in Southern History and American Religious History. More About Dr. Sparks.
Contact Dr. Sparks at rsparks1@tulane.edu
