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: 3/30/2022