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History Center

The History Center nurtures scholarship, promotes scholarly communication, engages local communities, and raises the visibility of the University of South Carolina Department of History, enhancing its reputation in the historical profession.

Fall 2024

Monday, October 28, 1:00-2:15, Gambrell 245b 

Dana Logan, (UNC-Greensboro), will visit campus, sponsored by Religious Studies and the History Center. Dr. Logan is a scholar of American religion and ritual who works on the history of evangelicalism, civil society in the nineteenth-century United States, and the experience of ritual in everyday life. She is the author of Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America.   

Panel Discussion: Methodologies in the Study of Religion: from History and Religious Studies. Panel Participants: Dana Logan (UNC-Greensboro/Religious Studies), Matt Childs, Marko Geslani (USC, Religious Studies), moderated by Adam Schor 

Tuesday, Oct. 29, 5:45-7:00, Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library 

Dana Logan (UNC-Greensboro), will deliver a talk on "Baptist Discipline: Policing the Antebellum Southeast” 

Thursday. November 14, 12:00-1:15, Gambrell 217 

Work in Progress with Na Sil Hao (USC), “Threefold Benefits”: Mobilizing Dairy Farmers and Building Bovine Alliances in Cold War South Korea.” 

Friday, November 15, 3:00-4:15, Gambrell 245B 

Prof. John D. Miller (Longwood College) will discuss his recently published book, Honorable and Brilliant Labors: Orations of William Gilmore Sims 

Wednesday, November 20, 5:00-6:30, Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library 

Prof. Nicole Eustace (NYU), “A Forgotten Founding Document from 1722: The Great Treaty of Albany and Indigenous Theories of Justice” will be based on her Pulitzer-prize winning book, Covered with Night: The Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in America 


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