Graduate Student Advisees

V.T. M.A. Thesis,  Ph.D. completed, and positions in teaching and editing :

Christopher Curtis, republicanism and the pro-slavery argument; Ph.D., Emory University ;Interim Chair, History and Sociology, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC

Paul Grady, indentured servitude and slavery in early Virginia; Ph.D., The College of William and Mary; Fellowship, Bernard Bailyn's Atlantic World Seminar, Harvard University (2006). Assistant Professor of History, University of South Carolina Upstate, Woodruff, S.C.

Chris Leahy, study of Unionism in Rockbridge County; Ph.D., Louisiana State University.  Assistant Professor of History, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana. 

Henry M. McKiven, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union; Ph. D.,Vanderbilt University; Associate Professor, University of South Alabama, Mobile; published book with the University of North Carolina Press on steelworkers of Birmingham, Alabama

Kevin Roberts, the slave family and African kinship patterns; Ph.D. program, University of Texas, Austin; formerly Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University; now history faculty, Randolph School, Huntsville, Alabama

Rand Dotson, a study of loyalty and dissent in Civil War Floyd County, Virginia; Ph.D, Louisiana State University; Senior Acquisitions Editor, Louisiana State University Press

Theses completed and working in Ph.D. History Programs:

Keith Hebert, folk medicine in the American South. Ph.D. program, Auburn University

Jamie Paxton, an examination of the republican ideology and its impact on the Confederacy; Ph.D. program, University of Virginia, but due to immigration problems returned to Canada and entered Ph.D. program, Queen's University. Teaching Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa.

Thesis completed and working in museum and other positions:

Robert Teagle, agricultural reform and its impact on slavery at the Shirley Plantation; interpreter, Shirley Plantation

April Cheek, the Carroll County courthouse shootout; Roanoke museum

Eric Bright, German-Americans in Civil War Richmond; Fraser Management Associates of Burlington, Vermont

Caroline Neely, slave women, resistance, and material culture; Washington, D.C. area.

Current Theses Students:

Emily Cook, the Library Company of Philadelphia: the institutional library in America

Lindsey Newman, witchcraft, folklore, and religion in seventeenth-century Virginia