Jennifer R.
Green
Jennifer R. Green is
associate professor of history, specializing in
nineteenth-century America, social history, and the Old
South. She received her B.A. from Reed College and M.A.
and Ph.D. from Boston University. She joined the CMU
faculty in 2001.
Research Interests
Professor Green researches social class, education, and
social mobility in the years before the American Civil
War (1830-1860). Her work has examined southern military
education and the emerging southern middle class to
analyze the formation of the middle class in the
nineteenth-century US. Her current project investigates
how different occupations, particularly agricultural
versus professional employment, affected social mobility
in South Carolina, 1840-1860.
In addition to grants for her own research, she was an
investigator on a Teaching American History grant funded
by the U.S. Department of Education. At CMU, she teaches
the US to 1865 and specialty courses on the nineteenth
century, offering on a regular basis: Civil War & Reconstruction, Jacksonian Era, and graduate colloquia.
Recent Publications
Military Education and the Emerging Middle Class in
the Old South (Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming).
"Networks of Military Educators: Middle-Class Stability
and Professionalization in the Late Antebellum South."
Journal of Southern History 63 (February 2007).
"'Practical Progress is the Watchword': Military
Education and the Expansion of Opportunity in the Old
South." The Journal of the Historical Society 5:3
(Fall 2005).
"'Stout Chaps Who Can Bear the Distress': Young Men in
Antebellum Military Academies" in Southern Manhood:
Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South, Ed.
Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover (Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2004). |
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