Department of History
Dr. Mark Elliott
Contact Information
Email: meelliot@uncg.edu
Office: 2125 MHRA
Office Phone: 336-256-8562
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 338, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Reunion
- HIS 723, Selected Topics in 19th Century U.S. History: "Reconstruction."
- Courses taught at other universities listed on Vitae.
Selected Publications
- Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War 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.
- “Four Squares: Union Square--Stuyvesant Square--Gramercy Park--Madison Square,” in Big Onion Guide to New York City. Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 111-150.
- “Race, Color Blindness and the Democratic Public: Albion W. Tourgée's Radical Principles 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
- 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.
- CASE/Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year, Co-Nominee, Wagner College, 2005.
- Other awards listed on Vitae.