PRESIDENT
Dr. Orville Vernon Burton
Clemson University
(217) 649-0608

Since 2010 Orville Vernon Burton has served as the Director for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences for the Cyberinstitute at Clemson University. For the previous two years he was the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, and before that he taught for thirty-four years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is Emeritus University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar.  He is the author of In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions:  Family and Community in Edgefield County, South Carolina (1985); The Age of Lincoln (2007); and co-author of "A Gentleman and an Officer":  A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War (1996).  He is also the author of more than two hundred essays and has edited or co-edited numerous essay and documentary collections. 

VICE PRESIDENT
Dr. David R. Goldfield
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(704) 687-2184

David R. Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 1970. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980 (1982); Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Culture from 1940 to the Present (1990); Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002); Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred (2003); and America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation (2011). 

EDITOR
Dr. John B. Boles
Rice University
(713) 348-6039

John B. Boles is the William Pettus Hobby Professor of History at Rice University. In 2008, he celebrated his 25th year as Editor of the Journal of Southern History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1969. His books include The Great Revival, 1787-1805: The Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind (1972), Black Southerners, 1619-1869 (1983), The South Through Time: A History of an American Region (1999), and University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute (2007). Among his many edited works are Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870 (1988), Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham (1987), coedited with Evelyn T. Nolen, and the Blackwell Companion to the American South.

John C. Inscoe is University Professor and Albert B. Saye Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. He is the author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989), Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South (2008), Writing the South Through the Self (2011), and co-author of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: The Civil War in Western North Carolina (2000). He has edited or co-edited essay collections on Georgia race relations, James Oglethorpe, Appalachians and race in the 19th century, southern Unionists during the Civil War, and a festschrift in honor of Emory Thomas. He is also the editor of the on-line New Georgia Encyclopedia.

PAST PRESIDENT
Dr. Theda Perdue, Emeritus
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(919) 962-8081

Theda Perdue has just retired as the Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught from 1998 to 2011. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia in 1976. Among her numerous works on Cherokee and Native American history are Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866 (1987); Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835(1998); "Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South (2003); and with co-author Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (2007). She is currently at work on a study of Indians in the segregated South.

2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Dr. Don H. Doyle
University of South Carolina
(803) 777-6068

Dr. Marjorie Spruill
University of South Carolina
(803) 777-2927

2012 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIR

Dr. David Herr
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
(910) 277-5555

2013 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR

Dr. Cynthia Kierner
George Mason University
(703) 993-1250

AWARD COMMITTEES