Professor

355 McMicken Hall
513-556-0916
wayne.durrill@uc.edu

Professional Summary

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 in Nineteenth Century American History (2008), Journal of Social History (2006, 2002), Journal of Southern History (2004, 1999), Slavery and Abolition (1995, 1992), Prologue (1988), and the Journal of American History (1985). From 2000 to 2005, he also co-edited with Christopher Phillips the journal Ohio Valley History, a collaboration among the Cincinnati Museum Center, Filson Historical Society in Louisville, and UC. Prof. Durrill has also published two articles on nineteenth century African history in the Journal of African History ( 2000) and the American Historical Review (1986). In 1996, he was a Fulbright professor at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His research has been supported by fellowships and major grants from the Taft Memorial Fund at UC (2008, 1995), the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (2006), the Spencer Foundation (1997, 1992), the Fulbright Board (1995) the National Academy of Education (1993), the American Council of Learned Societies (1990), and the Smithsonian Institution (1986). In 1997, Prof. Durrill received a University Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Research. And in 1984, he received the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historicans for his article "Producing Poverty: Local Government and Economic Development in a New South County, 1874-1884," which was published in the Journal of American History. Prof. Durrill is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled: "Nat Turner and the Great Slave Conspiracy of 1831."

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1987.

Research Interests

Currently working on two book projects:

"Nat Turner and the Great Slave Conspiracy of 1831"

"Paths to Power: Leading Universities, the State, and the Rise of Middle Classes in an Anglo-Atlantic World, 1780-1914"

Peer Reviewed Publications

(2008). "Becoming Rafinesque: Market Society and Academic Reputation in the Early American Republic". Nineteenth Century American History, 9, 123-40.

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

(2004). "Political Legitimacy and Local Courts: Politics at Such a Rage in a Southern Community during Reconstruction". Journal of Southern History, 70, 577-602.

(2002). "A Tale of Two Courthouses: Civic Space, Political Power, and Capitalist Development in a New South Community, 1843-1940". Journal of Social History, 35, 657-81.

(2000). "Shaping a Settler Elite: Students, Competition,and Leadership at South African College, 1829-1895". Journal of African History, 41, 221-39.

(1999). "The Power of Ancient Words: Classical Teaching and Social Change at South Carolina College, 1801-1860". Journal of Southern History, 65, 469-98.

(1997). "New Schooling for a New South: A Community Study of Education and Social Change, 1875-1885". Journal of Social History, 31, 156-81.

(1995). "Routine of Seasons: Labour Regimes and Social Ritual in an Antebellum Plantation Community". Slavery & Abolition, 16, 161-87.

(1992). "Slavery, Kinship, and Dominance: The Black Community at Somerset Plantation, 1786-1860". Slavery & Abolition, 13, 1-19.

(1986). "Atrocious Misery: The African Origins of Famine in Northern Somalia, 1839-1884". American Historical Review, 91, 287-306.

(1985). Producing Poverty: Local Government and Economic Development in a New South County, 1874-1884". Journal of American History, 71, 764-81.

Books

(1990). War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion. New York: Oxford University Press.

Courses Taught

U.S. Economic History.

American Material Culture.

Comparative Slavery and Emancipation-Graduate Seminar.

19th Century U.S.--Graduate Seminar.

Visual Culture in American History--Undergraduate Seminar.

Crime and Society in Cape Town—Undergraduate Seminar.