Department of History

Dr. Mark Elliott

Contact Information

Email: meelliot@uncg.edu
Office: 2125 MHRA

Education

Ph.D., New York University, 2002
M.A., University of California, Riverside, 1993
B.A. in History/English, Duquesne University, 1991

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008-present
Assistant Professor, Wagner College, 2002-2008

Research Interests

• Abolitionism, Civil Rights, and Human Rights
• Public History and Historical Memory
• Civil War and Reconstruction
• Constitutional, Political and Intellectual History
• Transnational History

Courses Taught

• HIS 211, The United States to 1865
• HIS 212, The United States since 1865
• HIS 338, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Reunion, 1848-1896
• HIS 339, War, Society, and Reform: America 1896-1945
• HIS 702, Colloquium in American History, 1865-Present
• HIS 723, Selected Topics in 19th Century U.S. History
• Courses taught at other universities listed on Vitae.

Selected Publications

Undaunted Radical: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Albion W. Tourgée. Co-edited with John David Smith. Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the CivilWar to Plessy v. Ferguson, Oxford University Press, 2006 “The Question of Color-Blind Citizenship: Albion Tourgée, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Principles of the Niagara Movement,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 32.2 (July 2008): 23-49. “Nation-Building Begins at Home,” Reviews in American History 35.2 (June 2007): 239-246. “Race, Color Blindness and the Democratic Public: Albion W. Tourgée's RadicalPrinciples in Plessy v. Ferguson,” The Journal of Southern History Volume LXVII (May 2001): 287-330. Other publications listed on Vitae.

Selected Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

• Summer Excellence Research Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010.
• Winner, Avery O. Craven Award, 2007. Organization of American Historians.
• Finalist, Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, 2007. The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Long-Term Fellowship, 2006.
• Lloyd Lewis Long-Term Fellowship in American History, Newberry Library, 2006.
• Postdoctoral Associate Fellowship, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, 2005.
• Other awards listed on Vitae.

External Links

• Justice Deferred: Albion Tourgee and the Fight for Civil Rights (Website)
• Justice Deferred: Albion Tourgee and the Fight for Civil Rights (Booklet)

Curriculum Vitae