Joseph Crespino

Joseph Crespino (born January 10, 1972) is a political historian of the 20th Century United States, specializing in the history of the American South and of modern conservatism. He is the author of two books and an edited collection and has been named a Top Young Historian[1] by the History News Network at George Mason University.

Early life and education

Crespino was raised in Macon, Mississippi. His father, Bobby Crespino, played football at the University of Mississippi and then later in the NFL. Crespino attended The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1986 to 1990, and Northwestern University (1990–1994).

Career

From 1994 to 1996, Crespino was a member of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, where he taught 11th-grade American history at Gentry High School in Indianola, Mississippi.

He earned his doctorate in American history from Stanford University in 2002 and in 2012 is a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta where he holds the Jimmy Carter Chair in American History. He received the Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Emory Center for Teaching and Curricular Excellence in 2009.[2] His wife is Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Caroline Herring.

Works

Crespino is the author of Strom Thurmond’s America (Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of the longtime U.S. Senator from South Carolina.),[3][4] The book received positive reviews from Doris Kearns Goodwin and Publishers Weekly.

His other book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, 2007),[5][6] won the 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award by the Southern Regional Council, the McLemore Prize for the Best Mississippi History Book, and the nonfiction prize given by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. He also co-edited with Matthew Lassiter a book of essays titled The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford, 2010).

He currently works on another book on Atticus Finch, a main character in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.[7]

References

  1. ↑ History News Network. "History News Network".
  2. ↑ Emory University. "Joseph Crespino".
  3. ↑ Leah Wright Rigueur (28 December 2014). The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power. Princeton University Press. pp. 362–. ISBN 978-1-4008-5243-7.
  4. ↑ Sean Cunningham; Sean P. Cunningham (30 June 2014). American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt: Conservative Growth in a Battleground Region. Cambridge University Press. pp. 44–. ISBN 978-1-107-02452-6.
  5. ↑ Brett Gadsden (8 October 2012). Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 0-8122-0797-1.
  6. ↑ Jason Morgan Ward (2011). Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965. Univ of North Carolina Press. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-0-8078-3513-5.
  7. ↑ Joseph Crespino, "Atticus Finch Offers a Lesson in Southern Politics," New York Times, July 16, 2015.
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