MELTON A. McLAURIN
UNC
Emeritus Professor of History
I. BIOGRAPHICAL
Name:
Address:
Phone: Home: (910) 392-0395 Cell: (910) 200-8821
e-mail: mmclaurinm@ec.rr.com
Wife: Sandra Cockrell
Children: Natasha, Nicole, and Megan
Education: BS and MA,
MA Thesis: The
Ph.D.,
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Southern Cotton Textile Operative and Organized Labor, 1880-1905
II. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION, GRADUATE LEVEL
Major Field: United States History, with emphasis on:
The American South Race Relations
The Populist-Progressive era Labor History
Minor Fields: Modern Europe and
Cognate Field: American Literature, with an emphasis on the literature of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries
III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor Emeritus of History, UNCW, 2004-
Professor of History: History Department, UNCW, 1977-2004
Professor of History: University of South Alabama, 1976-1977, Associate Professor: 1971-1975
Assistant Professor: 1967-1971
Instructor: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Summer, 1969;
of General Studies,
1966-1967;
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Old American South, New American South, African-American History,
19th Century
Graduate Seminars Taught: The Civil Rights Revolution, The Populists Movement,
The 1890s, The Segregated South through Autobiography, American Autobiography
IV. PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
The Marines of Montford Point;
Press, 2007)
The
of
Archives and History, 2003)
You Wrote My Life: Lyrical Themes in Country Music. Co-edited with Richard Peterson.
(Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, 1992)
Celia, A Slave. (University of Georgia
Press, 1991).
Southern Book Award, 1992; Alternate selection, Quality Paperback Book
Club, 1992; Trade paperback issue by Avon Books, 1993, Film rights purchased by
20th Century Fox, 1994.
Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South.
(University of Georgia Press, 1987) Paperback issue, 1989, 2nd edition, 1998.
Received the Lillian Smith Award for Non-fiction, presented by
the
Southern Regional Council, 1988.
selection as one of the outstanding works on the subject of
intolerance published in 1987.
The Image of Progress:
of
for
exhibit in the
Knights of Labor in the South. (Greenwood Press, 1978)
Paternalism and Protest; Southern Cotton Mill Workers and
Organized Labor, 1875-1905. (Greenwood Publishers, 1971)
VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
Writer/director of The Marines Of Montford Point, Fighting for Freedom, a hour long television
documentary narrated
by Louis Gossett, Jr., produced by
ESSAYS IN EDITED
COLLECTIONS:
“Celia: Slavery and Sexual Exploitation,” in True Stories from the American Past, Vol. I, Altina
Waller and William Graebner, eds. (New York: McGraw Hill Companies, Inc., 1997).
"Songs of the South: The Changing Image of the South and Country Music,"
in You Wrote My Life: Lyrical Themes in Country Music, Melton McLaurin
and
Richard Peterson, co-eds. (
Publishers, 1992).
"Proud to Be an American: Patriotism in Country
Music," in
Popular Music in Twentieth
Century Society, Kenneth J. Bindas, ed. (
"Southern Autobiography and the Problem of Race,"
in Looking
South: Chapters in the Story of an American Region, Winfred B.
Moore, Jr. and Joseph F. Tripp, eds. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989).
"Country Music and the Vietnam War," in Perspectives
on the
American South, Vol. III, James Cobb and Charles Wilson, eds.
(Gordon and Breach, Publishers, 1985)
"Knights of Labor: Internal Dissension in the Southern Order," in
Essays in Southern Labor History, Gary Fink and Merl Reed,
eds. (Greenwood Press, 1977).
ARTICLES:
“Commemorating
Memory,” Southern Cultures, 6
(Winter, 2000), 35-57.
“Public Perception
of the Past in the American South: A Paradigm Shift,” American Studies
Journal, published by the Center for U. S. Studies at the Stiftung Leucorea,
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Number 45 (Summer, 2000),
18-25.
"Rituals of Initiation and Rebellion: Adolescent Responses to Segregation in Southern
Autobiography,” Southern Cultures, 3 (Summer, 1997) 5-24.
"Divine Convictions: The Tale of an African American Trickster in
Victorian
Historical Society, 15 (Winter, 1994-95), 4-17.
"Southern History through Photographs: Problems and Promises",
Applied History, 3 (March, 1984) 5-9.
"The
Institution," N.C. Historical Review, 59 (July, 1982), 213-29.
"The Knights of Labor and Southern Blacks," Labor History (Fall,
1976) 568-585.
"Worth a Thousand Words," Southern Exposure (Fall, 1976) 60-69, a
visual essay on labor history.
"Mobile Blacks and World War II: The Development of a Political
Consciousness," Proceedings
of the
Humanities Conference, Vol. iv (1973).
"The Knights of Labor in N. C. Politics," N.C. Historical Review,
49 (Summer, 1972), 298-315.
"Early Labor Organizational Activity in
"The Image of the Negro in
Texts," Phylon, 32 (Fall, 1971), 237-46.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
"Knights of Labor," Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture (
Articles on William McKinley Administration, Paul Buck, and
Broadus Mitchell in the Encyclopedia of Southern History
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1979).
REVIEWS IN:
American Historical Review Journal of American History Journal of Southern History
History; Reviews of New Books International History Review Labor History Southern Cultures Business History
Review American
Quarterly N.C. Historical Review Georgia Historical
Quarterly
S.C. Historical Magazine
PAPERS, ACADEMIC:
“Integrating the
Corps: Montford Point Marines Tell Their Story,”
February 2003. By invitation.
“The Marines of
Montford Point: The Corps Meets the
FEPC,” Historical Society of North
“The Minor Key:
Class in Post-World War II Southern Autobiography,” The Citadel
Conference on the South,
“Common Culture,
Separate Boxes: Daily Life in the Segregated South,”
November 1999. By invitation.
“From Individual to Collective Memory: Commemorating Wilmington’s Racial Violence of
1898,” Southern American Studies Association, February 1999.
“The Second Reconstruction, Unintended Consequences, and the American South,” The Senior
Seminar, Foreign Service Institute,
April 1997. By invitation.
"Rituals of Initiation and Rebellion: Adolescent Responses to Segregation in Southern
Autobiography," American
Culture Association of the South,
"Slavery and the Problem of Evidence," Southern Historical Association, November 1993.
"Slavery, Gender, and Community: Linda Brent and Celia, a Slave," Smithsonian Institution,
Center for African American
Studies,
"Race, Gender and Violence, the Case of Celia, a Slave," Organization of American Historians,
April 1993.
"An African American Religious Charlatan in Victorian Britain," Joint meeting of the
North American Conference on British Studies and the Western Conference
on British Studies, October 1992.
"David Augustus Nero: Black Trickster in Nineteenth
Century
Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
"Race and Class in Twentieth Century Southern Autobiography,"
Given by invitation at
Polytechnic Institute,
"Growing Up Southern; Autobiographies of Childhood," Historical
Society of
"Slavery as Moral Dilemma, The Case of Celia," Southern Historical
Association, November 1987.
"Southern Autobiography and the Problem of Race," The Fifth Citadel
Conference on the South, April 1987.
"I'm Just a Common Man; Class Consciousness in Country Music," Third
Annual Conference On Country Music,
"The Changing Image of the South in Country Music," The Fourth Citadel
Conference on the South, April 1985.
"From Field Hands to Mill Hands: Working Carolinians,” Prepared for
the N. C. Coordinating Committee for the Advancement of History
under a N. C. Humanities Council grant, 1983.
"Southern History through Photographs: Problems and Promises,"
Institute for Southern Studies,
"The Late 19th Century N. C. Industrial Work Force," Rembert Patrick
Lecture,
"Country Music and the Vietnam War," Southern Popular Culture Association, October 1980.
"Southern Labor Force of the Late 19th Century," Southern Historical Association,
November 1977.
"Internal Dissension in the Southern Knights of Labor," Southern Labor
History Conference,
"A Slightly Different Vision, Southern Knights of Labor View the New
South," American Historical Association, 1975.
"Ante-Bellum
"Mobile Blacks and World War II: The Development of a Political
Consciousness,"
"The Knights of Labor in
"Images of the Negro in
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1969.
“Planning an International Degree Program,” Southern Association of Colleges and Schools,
December 2001.
“Web-Based Course Development Strategies,”
March 1999.
COMMENTARIES:
Comments at paper sessions on the South, race relations, or labor at the following
professional organizations:
American Historical Association Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association American Society for Ethnohistory
Southern Conference on Labor History Southern Conference on Women's History
Citadel Conference on
the South Association
of Historians in
VI. CURRENT RESEARCH
Autobiographies of Southerners
VII. MANUSCRIPT AND PROJECT EVALUATIONS
American Historical Review Journal of American History Journal of Southern History
American Quarterly
Gateway Heritage Southern Cultures Gulf Coast Historical Review
Duke University Press
West Educational Publishing
Annenberg Foundation/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project
National Endowment for the Humanities (Research and Media)
VIII. GRANTS,
FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
Randall Library
Scholar, UNC
Distinguished Teaching Professorship, UNC
North Carolina Humanities Council grant for symposium, “
1898
and Its Legacy,” Fall,1998.
Fellow,
David Bruce Centre for American Studies,
NEH grant to direct Summer Seminar for School Teachers on the topic
"The Twentieth Century South through Autobiography," Summer, 1993, 1995, and 1997
Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award, UNC
Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
Nero and African Missions."
NEH Summer Seminar, 1983. "Continuity and Change in Southern
Culture,"
under John Shelton Reed,
Consultant on
grant to
create Photo Exhibits on
North Carolina Humanities Council grant for a television
series "Southern Values in Transition," 1978-1979.
NEH Summer Seminar, 1977. "Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War"
under Dr.
Bell I. Wiley,
Consultant on Alabama Committee for the Humanities grant to create Photo
Exhibit on
Knights of Labor and a Photographic
History of
1969, 1970, and 1976.
Alabama Committee for the Humanities grant for research in visual and written materials.
Project Title: "
IX. ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Southern Historical Association Historical Society of
X. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Programs and Policies, UNCW, 1996-2003
(Major responsibilities assigned included supervision of the Directors of the following offices: Distance Education; International Programs; Honors Program; Diversity Issues; and Faculty Development Programs, including the Center for Teaching Excellence, Post-Tenure Review, and Phased Retirement. I also served from 1996 to 2002 as the university liaison officer to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.)
Member, Southern Historical Association Executive Committee, 2000-02
Member,
Member,
President, Historical Society of North Carolina, 2000-01
Member, UNCW Steering Committee for Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools Self-Study, 1999-2002
Member,
Committee, 1999-2001
Member,
Member,
1996-2002
Member, University Planning Council, UNCW, 1991-94, 1996-2002
(Member, Planning Council Steering Committee, 1992-94)
UNCW liaison officer to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1996-2002
Member, UNCW Chancellor’s Steering Committee on Information Technology, 1998-99
Member,
Member,
(Chairman, 1994-96, Vice-Chairman, 1992-94, Executive Committee Member, 1990-96)
Editor,
Chairman, Department of History, UNCW, 1977-91
Development and implementation of Master’s Degree in History
Development and implementation of undergraduate Program in Applied History
Revision of undergraduate curriculum to include Asian
and African history and expanded social history course offerings
Funding obtained for five undergraduate scholarships for $2,500 per academic year
Funding obtained for departmental faculty Research and Development Awards
Chairman, UNCW Steering Committee for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Institutional Self Study, 1980-82.
Chairman, Sub-committee on Planning and Evaluation for Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools Institutional Self Study, 1990-92.
Member, Graduate Council of the
Member, Faculty Senate, UNCW, 1977-80, 1991-95
(Member, Senate Steering Committee, 1992-95)
Member, Graduate Administrative Board, UNCW, 1979-81, 1982-83
Member, Board of Directors, Poplar Grove
Member, Academic Advisory Council, N. C. Poverty Project, 1987-89
Member, Board of Directors, Lower
Acting Chairman, Department of History,
Summer, 1974 and Summer, 1976
Member, Graduate Council, University of South Alabama, 1976-77
Member, Faculty Senate, University of South Alabama, 1976-77
Member, Mobile Bicentennial Commission, 1974-76