Presentations

  • “In Aid of the Small White Farmer: Clarence Poe’s Plan to Segregate Rural North Carolina.” Paper presented at the Southern Historical Association’s conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2011.

  • “Agrarianism and Racism in the American South: Exploring Clarence Poe’s Vision for Rural Segregation.”  Talk given to the Junior Faculty Research Colloquium, St. John’s University, March, 2010.

  • "Race Development’ for the American South and South Africa: The Segregationist Visions of Maurice Evans and Clarence Poe.”  Paper presented at the Workshop in the Environmental and Agricultural History of the New South at the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies, July, 2009. 

  •  “Reviving the Yeoman Farmer: Arthur Raper and New Deal Policy on Small Farmers.”  Paper presented at the American Historical Association’s conference, New York, NY, January 2009. 

  • “Unregenerate Farmers: Agrarianism and Racism in the Early Twentieth-Century South.”  Paper presented to Yale’s Agrarian Studies Colloquium, April 2008.
  • “Land of Exploitation: Farms, Forests, and Labor in the Early Twentieth-Century South.”  Talk given at the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, November 2007.
  • "The Ideal of the Country is Life’: The Ideology of Agricultural Reform in the South.”  Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians’ conference, Minneapolis, MN, March 2007.
  • “No More Blaming the Victim: Chapel Hill Sociologists and the Shift in Agricultural Reform in the 1930s.” Paper presented at the American Society for Environmental History’s conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 2007.
  • “Promoting a Populist Vision: The Progressive Farmer and the Southern Agrarian Press.”  Paper presented at the Agricultural History Society’s conference, Cambridge, MA, June 2006. 
  • “Improving the Farm: ‘Scientific Agriculture’ in Tuskegee, Alabama.”  Paper presented at the Southern Historical Association’s annual conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
  • “Agrarianism among Black Southerners in the Early Twentieth Century.”  Paper presented at the Western Social Science Association’s annual conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 2005.