1. PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
2. CURRENT STUDENTS
3. FACULTY & STAFF
4. ALUMNI
5. COMMUNITY & FRIENDS

1. CAMPUS LINKS
   1. Inside UNCG
   2. Academics
   3. Administration
   4. Admissions
   5. Arts & Entertainment
   6. Athletics
   7. Continuing Education
      & Outreach
   8. Employment
   9. Giving to UNCG
   10. International Programs
   11. Libraries
   12. Online Courses & Degrees
   13. Research
   14. Technology
   15. University News

Dr. Greg O'Brien

Contact Information

Email: wgobrien@uncg.edu
Office: 2110 MHRA
Office Phone: 336-334-3988

Education

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1998
M.A., James Madison University, 1994
B.A., Randolph-Macon College, 1988

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008-
Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi, 2002-2008
Visiting Professor of Native American Studies, Dartmouth College, 2004
Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi, 1998-2002

Research Interests

My research interests are in ethnohistory, American Indians of the Southeast, American environmental history (particularly in the South), and the American Revolutionary era. I have focused extensively on Choctaw Indian history before the 1830s.

Current Project

My current book project is a study of the 1849 New Orleans flood, the worst flood to hit that city before Hurricane Katrina. My longer-range project is a study of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) in the South (1750s-1760s) focusing on American Indian diplomatic initiatives and relations between Indians and Europeans.

Courses Taught

• HIS 211 US History before 1865
• HIS 333 American Indian History to 1840
• HIS 334 Environmental History of the United States
• HIS 335 Colonial America
• HIS 511A Seminar in Historical Research and Writing: "American Indian History before 1840"
• HIS 701 Colloquium in US History to 1865
• HIS 722 Topics in Early American History: Early American Indian History
• HIS 722 Topics in Early American History: The American Revolution
• HIS 723 Topics in 19th Century U.S. History: The Market Revolution

Selected Recent Publications

• Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).
• The Timeline of Native Americans: The Ultimate Guide to North America's Indigenous Peoples (Thunder Bay Press, 2008).
• Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830 (University of Nebraska Press, 2002, 2005).
• George Washington's South (co-edited with Tamara Harvey, University Press of Florida, 2004).
• "The Conqueror Meets the Unconquered: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries on the Post-Revolutionary Southern Frontier," Journal of Southern History, (Feb. 2001) 68:39-72.

Selected Awards and Honors

• Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, Historic New Orleans Collection, 2006
• Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher Award, 2005
• Who's Who in American Education, 2004
• McLemore Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society for the best book published on a Mississippi history topic in 2003.
• Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award for the best article published in the Journal of Southern History during the two-preceding years, 2002.

PhD students working with me

• Sarah McCartney (entered program in 2010, MA from William & Mary), 18th Century Virginia Backcountry
• Steven Peach (entered program in 2011, MA from Northern Illinois), Southeastern Indian History
• Jason Stroud (entered program in 2011, MA from N.C. State), Colonial / Revolutionary North Carolina
• Monica Ward (entered program in 2010, MA from Rutgers), Southeastern Indian History

Links of Interest

• I am book review editor for the journal Ethnohistory, published by the American Society for Ethnohistory (www.ethnohistory.org)
• I am associate editor for the journal Native South, published by the University of Nebraska Press (www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Native-South,673964.aspx)
• I give presentations on various American history topics to public school teachers as part of the Teaching American History grant program in conjunction with the American Institute for History Education ( http://aihe.info/gazette.php?year=2009).
• I serve on the Environmental Studies Committee, overseeing the Environmental Studies major and minor at UNCG: www.uncg.edu/env/.

Curriculum Vitae

Page updated: 16-Dec-2011

Accessibility Policy