James M. Russell
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Department of History; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Chattanooga, TN 37403
Work Phone: 423-755-4561 or 755-4579
Education:
B. A., magna cum laude. Wesleyan U., 1966M. A., Princeton U., 1 968
Ph. D., Princeton U., 1972
Dissertation: "Atlanta, Gate City of the South, 1847 to 1885," directed by Sheldon Hackney
Grants & Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa, 1965 junior year in college)Dutcher Prize in History, 1966 (Wesleyan U.)
Princeton U. Fellowship, 1966-68, 1969-70
Shelby Cullom Davis Travelling Fellowship, 1968-69
NDEA Title IV Fellowship, 1968-69
U. of Tenn. at Chattanooga Faculty Research Grants, 1972, 1979, 1987,1989, and 1991.
NEH Summer Seminar, 1 978 (George B. Tindall's "The South as Symbol and Myth," (UNC-Chapel Hill)
NSF Chautauqua Course, "Community Power Studies," 1981 (conductedby Prof. Nelson Polsby at the University of Texas)
Mini-Institute on the New Social History at the Newberry Library,Sept., 1981
U. of Tenn. at Chattanooga Faculty Research Fellowship, 1982
NEH Summer Seminar, 1 983 (Kenneth T. Jackson's "American Urban History: Cities and Neighborhoods," Columbia University)
Fulbright Senior Lectureship at the University of Genova, Italy from January 1 to June 30,1988
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1989
NFH Travel to Collections Grant, 1989
Southern Regional Education Board Grant, 1990
Papers & Conventions:
"City-building and Municipal Politics in Atlanta, 1847 to 1890," paper delivered at the 1975 Southern Historical Association Convention.
"Homicide and the Violent Ideal in Atlanta, 1865 to 1890," paper delivered at the 1978 Citadel Conference on the New South.
"Elites and Municipal Politics and Government in Atlanta, 1847 to 1890," paper presented at the Conference on Nineteenth-Century Southern Communities at the Newberry Library, 1 978.
Chaired and served as commentator in session on "Criminality and Lynchings" at 1979 Citadel Conference on the Old South and the New.
"Politics, Municipal Services, and the Working Class in Atlanta, 1 865 to 1 890," paper delivered at the 1 980 Organization of American Historians Convention.
"Leadership and Economic Growth in Nineteenth Century Atlanta," public address on April 30,1 981 at the University of Georgia,sponsored by the Association of History Graduate Students and the Epsilon Pi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. Also served as a panelist with Professors Blame Brownell and Howard N. Rabinowitz discussing southern urbanization on the same date.
Commentator for session on "Marriage and Ethnicity in American Cities" at 1 982 Social Science History Association Convention.
Commentator for session on "Comparative Perspectives on Violence" at 1 983 American Historical Assocation Convention.
Chaired and served as commentator in session on "Urbanization from the Old South to the New" at Fourth Citadel Conference on the South, 1985.
Presented demonstration, "Computer Graphics and History: Depicting the Battle of Chancellorsville," in workshop at 1 986 Organization of American Historians' Convention.
Commentator for session, "In Search of a Usable Past: Postbellum Perceptions of the Civil War," at Fifth Citadel Conference on the South, 1987.
Commentator for session, "The Urban South in the Crucible of War and Reconstruction," at Southern Historical Association Convention, 1987.
"The 'Phoenix City' and the Civil War: Atlanta's 'Economic Miracle,"' paper delivered at joint meeting of Civil War Roundtable and Atlanta Historical Society on November 1 5, 1989.
Commentator for session, "Lynching in the New South," Social Science History Convention, 1994.
Chair and Commentator for session, "Political Minorities in the Urban Confederacy," Southern Historical Association Convention, 1995.
Commentator for session on "International Institutional Racism" at Association for the Study of Afro-American Life & History, 1996.
Publications:
Articles on "Atlanta" and "Urbanization in the South." In David G. Roller and Robert T. Twyman (eds.), Encyclopedia of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 66, 1264-66.
"Elites and Municipal Politics and Government in Atlanta, 1847 to 1890." In Orville V. Burton and Robert C. McMath (eds.), Toward a New South? Studies in Post-Civil War Communities (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1 982), 37-70.
(with Jerry Thombery) "William Finch and Reconstruction Politics in Atlanta: The Black Politician as Civic Leader." In Howard N. Rabinowitz (ed.), Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction South (Urbana, III.: University of Illinois Press, 1982), 309-34.
"Politics, Municipal Services, and the Working Class in Atlanta, 865 to 1890," Georgia Historical quarterly. LXVI (Winter, 1982), 467-91.
Entries on "John T. Grant" and "James M. Calhoun." In Kenneth Coleman and Steve Gurr (eds.), Dictionary of Georgia Biographv (2 vols; Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1983), I, 147-49, 362-64.
Atlanta. 1847-1890: City Building in the Old South and the New (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1988). Review essay of this book by Howard Rabinowitz, "What Urban History Can Teach Us About the South and the South Can Teach Us About UrbanHistory," in Georgia Historical Ouarterly. LXXIII (1 989), 54-66.
"International Cotton Exposition of 1 881." In John E. Findling (ed.), Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs & Expositions. 1851-1988 (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1 990), 76-77.
"The 'Phoenix City' and the Civil War: Atlanta's 'Economic Miracle,"' Atlanta History. A Journal of Georgia and The South, XXXIII (Winter 1989-1990), 18-28.
"Using the Computer to Teach Undergraduates Quantitative Methodologies in Historical Research," International Journal of Social Education, 5 (Spring, 1 990), 11-22.
"Regional and National Perspectives on American Urban History," The Canadian Review of American Studies, 21 (FaIl, 1990), 265-74.
"Depicting the Battle of Chancellorsville on a Macintosh Computer," History Microcomputer Review, 10 (Spring, 1994), 17-21.
"Economic Factors as Causes of the Civil War" in Steven E. Woodworth, ed., The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Westport, CT 1 996), 144-53.
Book reviews in Agricultural History, American Historical Review. Journal of American History. Journal of Mississippi History. Journal of Southern History. The Historian. Civil War History, Journal of American Ethnic History. Filson History quarterly. Georgia Historical quarterly. North Carolina Historical Review, Mississippi quarterly, Alabama Historical Review, Gulf Coast Historical Review, and Tennessee Historical quarterly.
