Brandon T. Jett Curriculum Vitae
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Doctoral Candidate, University of Florida (current), Department of History, Academic Adviser: Dr. Jeffrey Adler Major Field: American History; Minor Field: Legal History M.A. Texas State University – San Marcos (2012), Department of History, Thesis Title: “The Bloody Red River: Lynching and Racial Violence in Northeast Texas, 1890-1930” Thesis Adviser: Dr. Dwight D. Watson B.A. Texas State University – San Marcos (2007), Department of Political Science
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Department of History, U.S. History since 1877 2012-2013 Graduate Assistant, University of Florida, George A. Smathers Library Special Collections, Political Papers Division, Processed Robert “Bob” Graham Papers and Lawton M. Chiles Papers 2010-2012 Research Assistant, Texas State University – San Marcos, Dr. Dwight D. Watson, Department of History 2009-2011 Instructional Assistant, Texas State University – San Marcos, Department of History, History of Mexico, U.S. History to 1877, & U.S. History since 1877 2007 Supplemental Instructor, Texas State University – San Marcos, Student Learning Assistance Center & Department of History, U.S. History to 1877 & U.S. since 1877
PUBLICATIONS
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Paris is Burning: Lynching and Racial Violence in Lamar County, Texas, 1890-1920,” East Texas Historical Journal 52, no. 2 (scheduled September 2013).
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928 by William d. Carrigan and Clive Webb, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly: (forthcoming).
Review of They Called Them Soldier Boys – A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, by Gregory W. Ball, in East Texas Historical Journal: (forthcoming).
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Book Note of Hangin' Times in Fort Smith: A History of Executions in Judge Parker's Court by Jerry Akins, in The Journal of Southern History: (forthcoming).
Review of Ain’t Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement by Zoe A. Colley, in Florida Historical Quarterly: (scheduled Summer 2014).
Review of The Reckoning: The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier by Peter R. Rose, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly: (scheduled January 2014).
Review of Coming for to Carry Me Home: Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow by J. Michael Martinez, in The Journal of African American History: (scheduled 2014)
Review of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching by Michael J. Pfeifer, in The Southern Historian: A Journal of Southern History: 2013.
Review of Chiricaua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880 by Lance R. Blyth, in Southwestern American Literature: Fall 2012.
Review of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South edited by Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, in Texas Books in Review: Summer 2012.
Review of Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas by Michael Ariens, in Texas Books in Review: Summer 2012.
Review of Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865- 1874 edited by Kenneth W. Howell, in Texas Books in Review: Winter/Spring 2012.
Review of Vengeance in a Small Town: The Thorndale Lynching of 1911 by George R. Nielsen, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly: April 2012.
Review of White Man’s Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909 by Kimberly Harper, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly: October 2011.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Food Riots” in The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank, Published by ABC-CLIO, (forthcoming).
“Readjuster Party” and “Robber Barons” in Encyclopedia of Populism, edited by Elizabeth Demers and Alexandra Kindell, Published by ABC-CLIO, (forthcoming).
“Vernice T. Smith” in The Handbook of Texas Online, edited by Merline Pitre, Published by Texas State Historical Association, (forthcoming).
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CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Commentator, “Conflicts in the 20th Century United States,” Identity through Conflict-History Graduate Symposium, Gainesville, Florida, April 13, 2013.
Commentator, “Early American History-Economic or Intellectual?” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Gainesville, Florida, March 23, 2013.
“‘I Still Remember’: Lynching and Memory in Marshall, Texas,” Texas State Historical Association One Hundred and Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas, March 2, 2013.
“Organized Fight: Black Grassroots Resistance to Racial Violence in Northeast Texas, 1890- 1930,” The Third Annual Texas A&M Graduate History Conference, February 25, 2012.
“Thesis Writing Workshop,” Presented by Phi Alpha Theta – Sigma Zeta Chapter, Texas State University-San Marcos, February 8, 2012.
“‘Rough Justice’ in Texarkana: Lynching and Racial Violence in Bowie County, 1890-1925,” Phi Alpha Theta Brown Bag Lecture Series, Texas State University – San Marcos, November 16, 2011.
“Texas’ Anti-Lynching Law: More than a Fig Leaf,” 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African-American History, University of Memphis, November 9, 2011.
“Getting in to Graduate School,” Presented by Phi Alpha Theta – Sigma Zeta Chapter, Texas State University-San Marcos, October 19, 2011.
“Lynching in the United States,” Guest Lecturer for African-American History Seminar, Texas State University-San Marcos, August 31, 2011.
“Paris is Burning: Lynching and Racial Violence in Lamar County, 1890-1920,” The Second Annual Texas A&M Graduate History Conference, February 26, 2011.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2013 Pre-ABD Research Grant, History Graduate Society, University of Florida
2013 Third Place—C.M. Caldwell Memorial Awards for Excellence in History, Graduate Division, Sponsored the Walter Prescott Webb Society & the Texas State Historical Association
2013 GSC Travel Grant, Graduate Student Council, University of Florida
2013 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Florida
2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of History, Texas State University – San Marcos
2011 Graduate Student Travel Fund Grant, Graduate College, Texas State University – San Marcos 3
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2011 Graduate Student Travel Fund Grant, Department of History, Texas State University – San Marcos
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Current Grant Evaluator, Graduate Student Council, University of Florida
Current Treasurer, History Graduate Society, University of Florida
2013 Judge, Alachua County History Day part of National History Day
2013 University of Florida History Graduate Society’s Representative to the Graduate Student Council
2012 Conference Planning Committee for Second Annual Texas State Graduate Student History Conference, Texas State University – San Marcos
2011-2012 Treasurer, Phi Alpha Theta – Sigma Zeta Chapter, Texas State University – San Marcos
2011 Judge, Texas History Day, Texas State Historical Association
2011 Conference Planning Committee for the First Annual Texas State Graduate Student History Conference, Texas State University – San Marcos
2009-2010 Student Mentor, Division of Student Affairs, Texas State University – San Marcos
MEMBERSHIPS
Alpha Chi National Honor Fraternity
American Historical Association
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
East Texas Historical Association
Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society
Southern Historical Association
Tennessee Historical Society
Texas State Historical Association
The Organization of American Historians
West Tennessee Historical Society
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