Lee Willis

Title: Assistant Professor

Education

Ph.D., US History, Florida State University
M.A., American and Florida Studies, Florida State University
B.A., Histor, University of the South 

Specialty

Race and Ethnicity in the United States; the American South

Courses

HIST 176 - United States to 1877
HIST 177 - United States since 1877
HIST 288 - Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
HIST 289 - African American History to 1877
HIST 290 - War and African American History since 1877
HIST 310 - Slavery in the Americas
HIST 388 - The Civil War Era
HIST 395 - Age of Jackson
HIST 395 - Alcohol and Drugs in the United States
HIST 489 - The Black Atlantic

Select Publications

• "Creating a Lost Cause: Prohibition and Confederate Memory in Apalachicola, Florida" in Southern Studies 12 (Vol. 3-4, 2005): 55-74.
• "Secession Sanctified: Bishop Francis Huger Rutledge and the coming of the Civil War in Florida" in Florida Historical Quarterly 82 (vol. 4, 2004) 421-437.
• Book reviews for Church History Michigan Historical Review, H-South, H-CivWar, and H-Florida.
  

Works in Progress

• "Before Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920"
• "The Clandestine Slave Trade in the Gulf South, 1808-1861"

Honors and Awards

• Edward C. and Marie H. Kingsbury Fellowship, 2005-2006
  

Professional Affiliation

• Book Review Editor, Journal of Southern Religion
• American Historical Association (AHA)
• Southern Historical Association (SHA)
• Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
• Florida Historical Society (FHS)

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