William P. Hustwit

History Dept., Birmingham-Southern College, 900 Arkadelphia Rd. / Box 549031, Birmingham, AL 35254 Phone: 205-226-7840 / Email: [email protected] ______

EDUCATION

2008 Ph.D., University of , American History 2004 M.A., University of Mississippi, American History 2002 B.A., Kenyon College, History, with distinction

TEACHING POSITIONS

2017 - present Associate Professor of History, Birmingham-Southern College 2013 - 2017 Assistant Professor of History, Birmingham-Southern College 2011 - 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi 2007 - 2011 Adjunct Instructor, University of Mississippi

BOOKS

Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education. Chapel Hill: The University of Press, 2019.

James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND REVIEW ESSAYS

“Smart Segregationists: Southern Senators and Racial Politics from the 1930s to 1960s.” Reviews in American History 41 (June 2013): 318-324.

“From Caste to Color Blindness: James J. Kilpatrick’s Segregationist Semantics.” Journal of Southern History 77 (August 2011): 639-670.

“Sermons that Became Charges.” Journal of Mississippi History 68 (Spring 2006): 29-41.

“Edgar Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College, and Civil Rights.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly 78 (Spring 2005): 46-60.

OTHER WORK

“Introduction,” Ira B. Harkey, Jr., The Smell of Burning Crosses: An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (forthcoming, 2019).

“Frederick A. P. Barnard,” “Gus Courts,” “Greenwood Movement,” “Dixiecrats,” “Laura McGhee,” “Rosenwald Schools,” and “John C. Satterfield.” The Mississippi Encyclopedia. Edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, and James G. Thomas. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

“James J. Kilpatrick.” American National Biography, eds. Susan Ware, Mark C. Carnes, and John A. Garraty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

“The ‘Father’ of Profit-Sharing.” Wooster Magazine (Fall 2003): 23-24.

BOOK REVIEWS

Ben Keppel. Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture: Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation. Baton Rouge: State University Press, 2016. Journal of Mississippi History (forthcoming).

Melissa Ooten. Race, Gender, and Film Censorship in , 1922-1965. Lanham and other cities: Lexington Books, 2015. Journal of Southern History 82 (May 2016): 473-474.

John Kyle Day. The Southern Manifesto: and the Fight to Preserve Segregation. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Historical Quarterly 74 (Spring 2015).

David J. Wallace. Massive Resistance and Media Suppression: The Segregationist Response to Dissent during the Civil Rights Movement. El Paso: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2013. Journal of Southern History 81 (May 2015): 518-520.

Bryan Hardin Thrift. Conservative Bias: How Jesse Helms Pioneered the Rise of Right-Wing Media and Realigned the Republican Party. Gainesville: University Press of , 2014. Journal of American History 101 (December 2014): 1008.

William A. Link. ATLANTA, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Journal of American Studies 48 (May 2014): 662-664.

Brent Tarter. The Grandees of Government: The Origins and Persistence of Undemocratic Politics in Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 122: 1 (Winter 2014): 80-81.

Joseph Crespino. ’s America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2012. The Southern Register (Summer 2013).

Tim S. R. Boyd. Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. Georgia Historical Quarterly 96: 3 (Fall 2012).

Clive Webb. Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2010. H-Net: South. Database on-line. Available from http://h- net.msu.edu; posted 18 January 2011.

Joseph E. Lowndes. From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Journal of Southern History 75 (November 2009).

Vanessa Murphree. The Selling of Civil Rights: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations. New York: Routledge, 2006. H-Net: 1960s. Database on-line. Available from http://h-net.msu.edu; posted 3 May 2007.

John A. Kirk. Martin Luther King, Jr. London: Pearson Education Limited, 2005. H-Net: South. Database on-line. Available from http://h-net.msu.edu; posted 27 February 2006.

Mark Newman. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Athens: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. The Southern Register (Fall 2005): 23-24.

Howard Ball. Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2004. Southern Historian XXVI (Spring 2005): 148-149.

Steven D. Classen. Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. H-Net: 1960s. Database on-line. Available from http://h- net.msu.edu; posted 7 December 2004.

John Patrick Daly. When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. Lexington: The University of Press, 2002. Southern Historian XXV (Spring 2004): 73-74.

INVITED LECTURES

“If at First You Don’t Secede, Deny, Deny Again: James J. Kilpatrick’s Segregationist Semantics.” The Walter Taylor Reveley II Lecture, Hampden-Sydney College, April 5, 2016.

“Why the 1964 Civil Rights Act Was Not as Important as You Think,” “Celebrating Legacies” lecture series, sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Global Engagement, The College of Wooster, April 17, 2014.

“The Hell He Had an Equal: James J. Kilpatrick, Segregationist Editor,” Phi Alpha Theta lecture, University of at Birmingham, February 18, 2014.

“The Legacy of James J. Kilpatrick,” Farrar Award lecture, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of , October 26, 2012.

“The Great Train Robbery of the ‘Silent South,’” Fall Colloquium, History Department, University of Mississippi, October 28, 2011.

“The Second Strange Career of Jim Crow,” Southern Studies lecture series, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, March 11, 2009.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TEACHING WORKSHOPS

“Pepe Figueres and Costa Rican Exceptionalism,” First Lady of the Revolution: Alabama’s Connection to the Costa Rican Revolution, SUPER Institute, sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation, Birmingham, Alabama, July 24, 2017.

“Slave Narratives” Seminar, The Council of Independent Colleges / The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Yale University, June 19-24, 2016.

“How Jane Became an ‘Ignorant Slut’ and Why James J. Kilpatrick Was a Household Name,” Policy History Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 4, 2010.

“The Littlest Rebel: James J. Kilpatrick,” Mellon Fellowship lecture, sponsored by the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, October 12, 2006.

“Establishing Right Relations: Gustavus Adolphus College and Social Justice,” Joy in the Truth Conference, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, September 30, 2005.

AWARDS

2019 Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams Faculty Scholarship Award 2018 Omicron Delta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award 2012 Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award 2006 - 2007 J. L. and Diane Holloway Dissertation Fellowship 2006 Virginia Historical Society Mellon Fellowship

COURSES TAUGHT

The American People II Race and Revolution in Modern Latin America The New South The Story of Freedom: How Writers Helped to End Slavery Contemporary Black History The Vietnam War The Practice of History America Since 1940 Alabama Civil Rights

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Southern Historical Association

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Lecturer, “The Things We Carry: Lessons and Legacies of the Vietnam War,” Irondale Public Library, Irondale, Alabama, November 7, 2017. Featured Guest, “Book Talk,” Memphis Public Library Radio (WYPL), July 16, 2013. Featured Guest, book talk, Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi, June 22, 2013.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Firehouse Shelter Holy Family Cristo Rey Junior Board Holy Rosary Food Pantry Workshops, Inc. Junior Board