Faculty

Wayne K. Durrill
Professor
Fields: U.S. history, 19th century social history,
the South, slavery and emancipation, universities
and the middle class, 19th century Africa

Phone:  513-556-0916
Email: wayne.durrill@uc.edu
Office:  355 McMicken Hall

Prof. Durrill’s principal publications in American history include War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion (Oxford University Press, 1990), plus several articles on nineteenth century American social history and on nineteenth century Africa. His research has been supported by fellowships and major grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, the Fulbright Board, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Smithsonian Institution. In 1996, he was a Fulbright professor at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.  Prof. Durrill is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled: "Nat Turner and the Great Slave Conspiracy of 1831."

Selected Courses:
U.S. Economic History
American Material Culture
Comparative Slavery and Emancipation
19th Century U.S.--Graduate Seminar
Visual Culture in American History--Undergraduate Seminar
Crime and Society in Cape Town—Undergraduate Seminar

Selected Publications:
War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990; paperback, 1994.

“Ritual, Community and War: Local Flag Presentation Ceremonies and Disunity in the Early Confederacy.” Journal of Social History 38 (2006): 146-64

“Political Legitimacy and Local Courts: ‘Politicks at Such a Rage’ in a Southern Community during Reconstruction.” Journal of Southern History 70 (2004): 577-602. .