Dr. Christopher Curtis

Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship,
Professor of History (date).                                        
B.A., University of South Carolina (1986), M.A., Virginia Tech (1997), Ph.D.,Emory University (2002)

Teaching and Research Interests: Law and Property Rights in the Age of Revolution, English Common Law, Liberalism, Capitalism, Revolutions

Upper Division Courses:

• HIST 3730 Jacksonian America
• HIST 3750 Civil War and Reconstruction

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Contact Information:

Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs & Office of Research Integrity

PO Box 8005
Statesboro, GA 30460

Statesboro Campus Offices
261 Forest Drive
Veazey Hall, Suite 3000

Armstrong Campus Offices
Victor Hall Rooms 237/238

Office:
Tel.: 912-478-5465
Email: ccurtis@georgiasouthern.edu
Fax: 912-478-0377
Selected Publications:

• Jefferson’s Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion (Cambridge University Press, 2012).  
• “Codification in Virginia: Conway Robinson, John Mercer Patton, and the Politics of Law Reform,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, (2009): 140-180.
• “Reconsidering Suffrage Reform in the 1829-1830 Virginia Constitutional Convention,” Journal of Southern History, (2008): 89-124.
• “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Language of Republicanism in Virginia’s House of Delegates, 1831-1832,” Australian Journal of Legal History, (2000): 93-114.

Professional Activities, Awards, and Honors:

Current Research:

• Church Property Rights and the Separation of Church and State
• The U.S. Supreme Court during the Nullification Crisis
• Legal History
• The South
• Age of Revolution

Last updated: 12/14/2023