KARL CLAYBOURNE “CLAY” OUZTS 859 Whispering Pines Road Winder, 30680 [email protected] (770) 867-6407

Education

Florida State University, 1990-1996. Tallahassee, Florida. Ph.D. granted: August 3, 1996 Dissertation Topic: “Showdown in the South: and the 1976 Florida Democratic Primary” Major Professor: William Warren Rogers

West Georgia College, 1986-1989. MA History. Carrollton, Georgia.

University of Georgia, 1981-1985. BSED Education/Recreation. Athens, Georgia.

Anderson College, 1979-1981. AA Degree. Anderson, South Carolina.

Major Fields of Study

20th Century The New South

Other Teaching Areas

Revolutionary America and the New Republic Civil War/Reconstruction Era United States Environmental History Native American History

Teaching Experience

Fall 2003 - Present: Professor of History Gainesville State College Gainesville, Georgia Survey Courses Taught: Survey of United States History, Founding to 1865; 1865 to Present Survey of World Civilization, Beginning to 1600; 1600 to Present Environmental Studies (ENST 2030) Paris in the Teens and Twenties (Study Abroad class in France) Upper Level Courses Taught: Environmental History Native Americans and the Environment Civil War

Fall 1998- Spring 2003: Associate Professor of History (2001- 2003) Assistant Professor of History (1998-2001) Truett-McConnell College Watkinsville, Georgia Courses Taught: Survey of United States History, Founding to 1865; 1865 to Present Survey of World Civilization, Beginning to 1600; 1600 to Present Stuart England (two Study Abroad classes in London)

Fall 1997-Winter 1998: Instructor of History Gainesville College Gainesville, Georgia Courses Taught: Survey of United States History, Founding to 1865; 1865 to Present Survey of World Civilization, 1600 to Present

Fall 1996-Spring 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor of History State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia. Carrollton, Georgia Courses Taught: Survey of United States History, Founding to 1865; 1865 to Present Georgia History

Fall 1994-Spring 1996: Visiting Instructor of History West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia. Courses Taught: Survey of United States History, Founding to 1865; 1865 to Present

Fall 1993-Spring 1994: Adjunct Instructor Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Courses Taught: Survey of United States History, Founding to 1865; 1865 to Present

Summer 1993: Adjunct Instructor Lake City Community College, Lake City, Florida. Course Taught: Survey of United States History, 1865 to Present

Spring 1993: Teaching Assistant Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Course Taught: Survey of United States History, 1865-Present

Other Related Experience

2006: Study Abroad in Paris: “Paris in the Teens and Twenties” (Coordinated, supervised, and taught a one-week class in Paris) Gainesville State College, Gainesville, Georgia.

2000-2003: Study Abroad in London (once in 2000 and once in 2003) (Coordinated, supervised, and taught two, two-and-a-half-week classes in London) Truett-McConnell College, Watkinsville, Georgia.

1988-1989: Graduate Research Assistant West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia.

1997-1988: Graduate Assistant West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia.

Summers 1987-1988: Programmer, Researcher, Naturalist, Public Historian. Department of Natural Resources, Region II Headquarters, Athens, Georgia.

Summers 1986-1989: Programmer, Researcher, Naturalist, Public Historian. Bobby Brown State Park Elberton, Georgia.

Publications: Journal Articles

“’The Man Who Builded on a Rock was Wise’: The Genesis of Elberton’s Granite Industry, 1882-1900,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 2002, 587-616.

“Landlords and Tenants: Sharecropping and the Cotton Culture in Leon County, Florida, 1865- 1885,” Florida Historical Quarterly, Summer 1996, 1-23.

“Maxcy Gregg and His Brigade of South Carolinians at the Battle of Fredericksburg,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, January 1994, 6-26.

Publications: Encyclopedia

“C. W. MaCune” in the Encyclopedia of Populism, 2010.

“The Granger Movement” in the Encyclopedia of Populism, 2010.

“Chief William McIntosh” in the Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 2010.

“Big Warrior” in the Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 2010.

“Fort Jackson” in the Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 2010.

“Populism” in the Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, 2006.

“Progressivism” in the Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, 2006.

“Colonial Agriculture” in the Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, 2006.

“Lyme Disease” in the Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, 2006.

“Kudzu” in the Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, 2006.

“Dandelions” in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2006.

“Boll Weevil” in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society , 2006.

“Weeds” in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society , 2006.

“Turkey” in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2006.

“Tennessee Valley Authority” in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2006.

“Railroad Bill Slater,” in the Alabama Encyclopedia of History, 2005.

“Elbert County” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

“Elberton” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

“Elberton’s Granite Industry” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

“The Georgia Guidestones” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

“Petersburg” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

“Nancy Hart” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

“Stephen Heard” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia,” 2003.

Publications: Book Reviews Omar Ali, In the Lion’s Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900, in The Historian, Fall 2011.

Lt. Robert T. Hubard Jr., The Civil War Memoirs of a Cavalryman, Edited by Thomas P. Nanzig in H-NET BOOK REVIEW, Summer 2007.

Jonathan Dean Sarris, A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South, in H-NET BOOK REVIEW, Spring 2007.

George F. Pearce, Pensacola During the Civil War: A Thorn in the Side of the Confederacy in the Alabama Review, July 2002.

Alex Leichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor: Convict Leasing in the South in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Fall 1996.

R. Lockwood Tower, Lee’s Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865, in the Kentucky Historical Society’s The Register, Fall 1995.

Publications: Newspaper Articles “Civil War at 150: First Civil War battle a harbinger of things to come,” Gainesville Times, August 7, 2011

Conferences and Presentations

2/24/2012 Georgia Association of Historians Macon, Georgia Panel/Paper “Oglethorpe County’s King Cotton Blues”

2/26-26/2011 Georgia Association of Historians Savannah, Georgia Panel/Paper “Panel: “Five Thousand Years through World History: Environmental History as a Theme for Teaching the Ancient World.”

10/22-23/2010 Southeastern World History Assn. Atlanta, Georgia Panel/Paper “Five Thousand Years of History in One Semester: Teaching Strategies for History 1111”

2/28/2009 Georgia Association of Historians Dahlonega, Georgia Panel/Paper “Teaching Thematic History,”

Community Presentations: 2003-Present

“Indian Removal in Georgia,” Gainesville Kiwanis Club, Gainesville, Ga., 11/28/2012.

“Indian Removal in Georgia,” NSDAR, Elijah Clark Chapter, Athens, Ga., 11/115/12.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia,” OLLIE, Wilkes County, Ga., November 9, 2012.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia,” OLLIE, Athens, Ga., September 9, 2012.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia,” Chapter SAR, October 6, 2012.”

“The Civil War,” Partee Elementary, Snellville, Ga., 5th Grade, 9/11/2012.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia,” Hall County SAR, March 22, 2012.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia,” Ocmulgee SAR: Washington Birthday Annual Celebration Event, Keynote Address, Bibb County (Macon), February 18, 2012.

“World War I,” Kennedy Elementary School, Fifth Grade, Winder, Georgia, January 18, 2012.

“The American Revolution,” Kennedy Elementary School, Fourth Grade, Winder, Georgia, January 13, 2012. “Toryism in Northeast Georgia,” Guest Speaker, Van’s Creek Ceremony, State Society for the Sons of the American Revolution, December 2, 2011, Elberton, Georgia.

“The Ecological Indian,” Native American Awareness Month, Community Presentation, Gainesville State College, November 14, 2011.

“The Civil War to Antietam” Statham Elementary School, Fifth Graders, October 6, 2011.

“The Civil War: Antietam to Gettysburg,” Statham Elementary School, Fifth Graders, October 11, 2011.

“Tecumseh, the Creeks, and the Creek Civil War,” Dane’s Society of the War of 1812, Athens Country Club, September 20, 2011.

“The Civil War to Antietam,” Statham Elementary School, Fifth Graders, October 2010.

“The Civil War: Antietam to Gettysburg,” Statham Elementary School, Fifth Graders, October 2010.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia,” Speech given to Gainesville Kiwanis Club, October, 2010.

“World War I,” Kennedy Elementary School, Fifth Grade, March, 2010.

“The American Revolution,” Kennedy Elementary School, Fourth Grade, March 2010.

“The Pristine Myth,” Barrow County Historical Society, October 8, 2009.

“Gettysburg,” Statham Elementary School, Fifth Grader, October 1, 2009.

“World War I,” Kennedy Elementary School Fifth Grade, March 2009.

“The American Revolution,” Kennedy Elementary School, Fourth Grade, March 2009.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia During the era of the American Revolution,” Speech given to Barrow County Historical Society, May 19, 2009.

“The Old Federal Road.” Speech given to Gainesville Kiwanis Club, April 29, 2009.

“Teaching Themes in American History,” Speech given at the Georgia Association of Historians Annual Conference, February 28, 2009.

“Jefferson and Liberty.” Lecture Series on the Founders, Oconee County Library, September 23, 2008.

“Toryism in Northeast Georgia During the era of the American Revolution,” Elberton Historical Society, April 14, 2008.

“The Character of Robert E. Lee,” Sons of Confederate Veterans, 27th Regiment, Gainesville, Georgia, Keynote Address for 200th Anniversary Celebration of R.E. Lee’s birth, January 27, 2007.

“Prelude to the Civil War: South Carolina’s Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833,” Elbert County Historical Society, November 10, 2006.

“Prelude to the Civil War: South Carolina’s Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833,” Sons of Confederate Veterans, 27th Regiment, Gainesville, Georgia, Keynote Address for the Annual Lee, Jackson, Longstreet Dinner, January 21, 2006.

“The Stamp Act Crisis,” Elbert County Historical Society, October 10, 2005.

“The Civil War,” County Line Elementary School, Fifth Grade, Barrow County, March 2005 2005.

“ and the ,” Samuel Elbert Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Elberton, Georgia, June 9, 2005.

“The American Revolution,” County Line Elementary School, Fourth Grade, Barrow County, November, 2004.

“The Civil War,” County Line Elementary School, Fifth Grade, Barrow County, March, 2004.

Gainesville State College Committees and Service

2010-2011: Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member Promotion and Tenure Revision Committee, Member Learning Disabilities Committee, History Department/Social Sciences Rep. Teaching Fellow in History Committee, Member GAH Panel Participant on Teaching Environmental History, Feb. 26-27, 2011 Taught Civil War class for the first time Took classes on field trip to Chickamauga Took classes on field trip to Ocmulgee Participated in the SI Program Social Science Fair, Judge

2009-2010: Academic Dean Search Committee, Member Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member Taught Native Americans and the Environment class for the first time GAH Panel Participant on Teaching Ancient History, Savannah, Feb. 2010 Took Classes on a Field Trip to King’s Mountain, S. C. (Fall 2009) Participated in the SI Program Social Science Fair, Judge

2008-2009: Professional Development Committee (Chair) PAC Committee, Member Who’s Who Committee, Member Participated in the Apollo 11 Anniversary Project by the Gainesville Times Georgia Association of Historians – Panel Participant on Thematic History Social Science Fair – Judge Speech Contest – Judge Took Classes on two Field Trips to Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon (Fall and Spring) Participated in the SI Program Who’s Who Among American Teachers

2007-2008: Professional Development Committee (Chair) History Search Committee (Chair) Committee on Academic Programs (Member) Student Activities Budget Allocation Committee Promotion to Full Professor Workshop Facilitator, “GIS in the Social Sciences,” (Spring 2008) Social Science Fair – Judge Taught the Environmental History class for the first time Took Classes on a Field Trip to Andersonville Civil War site (Spring 2008) Participated in the SI Program Who’s Who Among American Teachers

2006-2007: Professional Development Committee (Chair) Academic Affairs Committee PAC Committee, Member Honors and Awards Committee Student Activities Budget Allocation Committee Study Abroad: Took GSC class to Paris, France (Maymester 2006) Gainesville College Environmental Institute, Member Developed the “Native Americans and the Environment” class for ESA Degree Social Science Fair -- Judge Took Classes on a Field Trip: Ocmulgee Indian Mounds (Macon, Ga.), Fall 2007 Participated in the Mentor-Mentee Program Conducted Divisional Brown Bag on Environmental Issues (Spring 2007) Guest Speaker for IESA on Environmental Issues (Spring 2007) Guest Column in the GSC Compass on “The Environmental Tabula Rasa,” (Spring 2007) Innovative Teaching Grant for GIS Workshop (Summer 2007) Division Liaison for GSC Fullbright Scholar, Amin Al-Midini Participated in GSC Project (Summer 2007) Participated in the SI Progam Initiated Oconee field day for Environmental Studies class/began the Good Earth Garden

2005-2006: Oconee Campus’ Bar-B-Q Committee Who’s Who in American Colleges & Universities Committee Student Activities Budget Allocation Committee Brown Bag Committee Grade Appeals Committee (Oconee Campus) Service Learning Committee Social Science Fair Committee Social Science Fair -- Judge Professional Development Committee, (Chair) Gainesville College Environmental Institute Developed and taught the initial Human Ecology class for the Environmental Institute Took Classes on Field Trips: Fort Yargo (Winder, Ga.), Fall 2005; Hall County Water Treatment Plant, Hall County Waste Facilities Plant, Spring 2006 Open House, Gainesville Campus, Spring 2006 Gave the 9/11 Speech and Keynote Address, Oconee Campus, September 13, 2005 Gave the Keynote Address, Honor’s Day, Oconee, April 2006 Gave the Keynote Address, 40th Graduation, GSC, May 5, 2006

2004-2005: Social Science Fair Committee, 2004-2005 Oconee Brown Bag Committee, 2004-2005 Self-Study Re-evaluation Committee, 2004-2005 Communication Values Self-Study Committee, 2004-2005 Gave the 9/11 Speech and Keynote Address, Oconee Campus, September 10, 2004 Gainesville College Environmental Institute Search Committee for Oconee History Position Science Fair – Judge, 2, 2005 Took Classes on Field Trips: Robert Toombs Home (Washington, Ga.); Alexander Stephens Home (Crawfordville, Ga.) Fall 2004; Ocmulgee Mounds, (Macon, Ga.), Spring 2005 Open House, Gainesville Campus, Spring 2005 Innovative Teaching Grant for Remote Classroom Access

2003-2004: Science Fair Committee, 2003-2004 Social Science Fair Committee, 2003-2004 Student Activities Budget Allocation Committee, 2003-2004 Oconee Brown Bag Committee, 2003-2004 Anthropology/History Position Search Committee, 2004 Completed the Teaching Excellence Program, 2003-2004 Gainesville College Environmental Institute Science Fair – Judge, February 2004 Took Classes on Field Trips: Robert Toombs Home (Washington, Ga.); Alexander Stephens Home (Crawfordville, Ga.), Fall 2003

Professional Organizations:

Southern Historical Association Georgia Association of Historians American Society for Environmental History Southeast History World Association Elbert County Historical Society Barrow County Historical Society

Honors and Recognition:

Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, Gainesville College, Oconee Campus, 2005 Who’s Who Among American Teachers, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2009 Professor of the Year, named by Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-ed fraternity, State University of West Georgia, May 1997 J. David Griffin Award for Superior Teaching in the Social Sciences, State University of West Georgia, 1995-1996 Nominated as candidate for Outstanding Educator of the Year Award, Florida State University, 1994 Outstanding Young Man of America -- 1989 Phi Alpha Theta Pi Gamma Mu

References

Dr. James Gay Department of History State University of West Georgia Carrollton, Georgia 30118 (770) 836-6508

Dr. John Ferling Department of History State University of West Georgia Carrollton, Georgia 3011 (770) 836-6508

Dr. Chuck Karcher Chair, Social Science Division Gainesville State College Gainesville, Georgia (770) 718-3878

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