The University of Georgia, Department of History

Christopher Lawton

Antebellum South; regionalisms; cultural and intellectual history

Part-Time Instructor
Ph.D., UGA, 2011

Office: 234 LeConte
Phone: (706) 542-2024

crlawton@uga.edu

Christopher Lawton is currently a Watson-Brown Postdoctoral Fellow in Southern Studies.

Research and Teaching Interests

[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Early America]
[Imperialism & Colonialism]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[U.S. South]

Dissertation

"Georgia Imagined, Georgia Illustrated: Reading the Landscape, 1717-1859," supervised by Dr. John Inscoe (2011)

Selected Publications

"Constructing the Cause, Bridging the Divide: Lee's Tomb at Washington's College," Southern Cultures (Summer 2009)

"The Pilgrim's Progress: Thomas J. Jackson's Journey towards Civility and Citizenship," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (March 2008)

"Review essay on Stacey Jean Klein, Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (March 2008)

"Review of Kevin O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth, eds., Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing From Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900," Agricultural History (Winter 2007)

Honors and Awards

M.E. Bradford Dissertation Prize, St. George Tucker Society, Awarded annually by the society for the best dissertation on the history of the American South (2012)

Excellence in Teaching Award, UGA Graduate School (2011)

John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill (2009-2010)

Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History, GA Secretary of State / Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (2010)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, American Philosophical Society (2008-2009)

Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. Award, UGA History Department (2009)

Cleanth Brooks Dissertation Forum, The St. George Tucker Society (2009)

Gilder Lehrman Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library (2009)

Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA Department of History, Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants (2008)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, The Graduate School Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Georgia (2008)

Best Paper, Southern American Studies Association Conference (2005)

John and Barbara Nau Graduate Fellow, The Stonewall Jackson Foundation and Washington and Lee University (2001)

Courses Taught

HIST2111: U.S. History to 1865 [Syllabus]

HIST3090: The American South [Syllabus]

HIST4071: Antebellum South