Christopher A.

Graham
804 N. 21st Street, Richmond, Va., 23223 * 828-808-1116 * whighill@gmail.com*@cagraham

EDUCATION:

Ph.D, History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2013

M.A. Public History, North Carolina State University, 1998
B.A. History, George Mason University, 1994

EXPERIENCE:

Public History

Guest Curator, American Civil War Museum, 2016-2018

 Curator on Victory in Defeat

 Curator and project manager on Greenback America
 Curator and project manager on Southern Ambitions: War for the Future
 Created Global Tour of Richmond project
 Co-curated On Monument Avenue, including blog entries, document reader,
select reading list, and online exhibitions
 Managed museum’s internship program

Associate Curator, North Carolina Museum of History, 2000-2005

Associate Curator of Education, North Carolina State Historic Sites, 2005-2008

 Developed collecting plans for NCMoH military collections

 Conceptualized, researched, and wrote exhibits on moonshine, David
“Carbine” Williams, ongoing open storage (From the Museum’s Attic), and
civil engineering (Man-Made Marvels). Contributed to exhibits and associated
publications on health and healing, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights
movement
 Co-created interpretive planning document adopted in 2006
 Initiated visitor studies program
 Co-created curation section Re:Discovery user manual
 Accessioned, processed, and cataloged artifact collections
 Developed social media policy for the Department of Cultural Resources
 Chaired North Carolina Historic Sites historic costume committee
 Assisted various sites in interpretive and educational program development
 Served as secretary and chair of student affairs committee of the North
Carolina Museums Council
 Composed first draft of Scope of Collections Statement for Virgin Islands
National Park

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Academic:

Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies, University of North

Carolina at Greensboro, 2014-2016

Previous teaching as an Instructor at Elon University, UNC-G, and Guilford Technical

Community College, 2008-2014

 Performed research in federal, state, local, and private repositories on

government documents, institutional records, personal manuscripts, and
genealogical sources. Guided students in similar research methodologies
 Wrote three hundred twenty one page dissertation titled “Faith and Family in
the Antebellum Piedmont South,” journal articles and encyclopedia entries
 Taught classes in western, world, American, southern, and North Carolina
history at four year and community colleges
 Taught graduate classes in museum studies and guided a first year cohort in
their major project
 Directed student projects in collaboration with local historic sites and
museums
 Presented papers and chaired panels at various academic conferences
 Published scholarly articles and book reviews for academic journals

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS:

“Monument Avenue, Richmond Virginia: Writing History with Bronze and Marble.”
Sculpture Review Vol. LXVI (No. 4), 8-15.

“New Museum Interprets American Revolution for New Audiences,” Process: A Blog
for American History, December 20, 2016.

“My Students Discovered a Plantation; or, An Ad-Hoc Methods Class for Non-History
Majors.” Common-Place: A Journal of Early American History (Fall, 2016)

Essays on “Destruction of Slavery (Confederate Emancipation).” Defining Documents

in American History: The Civil War, Volume 2. James McPherson, ed. Ipswich, MA:
Salem Press, 2014

“Faith and Family in the Antebellum Southern Piedmont,” Dissertation completed

2013, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

“Evangelicals and ‘Domestic Felicity’ in the Non-Elite South.” Journal of Southern

Religion, 15 (2013): http://jsr.fsu.edu/issues/vol15/graham.html

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“Factory Workers, Southern.” The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia,
Lisa T. Frank, ed. ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2015

"Reading the Regulators." Journal of Backcountry Studies III (Winter/Spring 2008)

"Women's Revolt in Rowan County." Columbiad: A Journal of The War Between the
States IV (Spring, 1999)

Review essay, The Catawbans: Crafters of a North Carolina County and The
Catawbans: Pioneers in Progress by Gary R. Freeze, in Journal of Backcountry Studies,
(2011)

Review of The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism by Durwood Dunn, in

Tennessee Historical Quarterly, forthcoming

Review of Rebels Against the Confederacy: North Carolina’s Unionists by Barton A.

Myers, in North Carolina Historical Review, Volume 92 (April 2015)

Review of Edmund G. Ross, Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist by Richard Ruddy, in Journal

of Southern History, Volume 81 (February 2015)

Review of Freedom in a Slave Society: Stories from the Antebellum South by Johanna
Nicol Shields, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 112 (Winter
2013)

Review of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community

Development in the Jim Crow South by Leslie Brown, in The Public Historian, 31 (May
2009)

Review of Military Necessity: Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy, by Paul D.

Escott, in North Carolina Historical Review LXXXV (April 2008)

Review of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, by
Chandra Manning, in North Carolina Historical Review LXXXV (January 2008)

PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS:

“Taking Prototyping to the Streets,” Museum Computer Network Annual Meeting,

Denver, CO, November 12, 2018.

“Acting on Monument Avenue,” (Co-presenter), National Council for Public History

Twitter Mini-Con, (Re)Active Public History #NCPHactive, October 19, 2018.

“Blurred Boundaries and the Audience of the Future,” Southeastern Museums

Conference annual meeting, Jackson, MS, October 10, 2018

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“Confederate Christians’ Proslavery Manifesto,” American Civil War Museum,
History Happy Hour, December 11, 2017. (With Keydron Dunn)

Participant, History Communicators Working Group, National Council on Public

History Annual Meeting, April 21, 2017.

“How to Listen,” North Carolina Museums Council Annual Meeting, March 27, 2017

“How to Listen,” Virginia Association of Museums, March 19, 2017

“Doing Civil War History in RVA,” invited presentation, Wake Forest University
Department of History, February 28, 2017

“Civil War Museums and Historic Sites after Charleston,” North Carolina Association
of Historians, Greensboro, N.C., April 1, 2016

Public program on the Humanities Action Lab’s States of Incarceration exhibit,

National Council for Public History, Baltimore, Md., March 19, 2016

“The Future of Civil War Sites After Charleston,” Co-Facilitator, North Carolina
Museums Council, Winston-Salem, N.C., March 21, 2016

“Discipline and the Irony of Orthodoxy and Change in Antebellum North Carolina,”
79th annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, St. Louis, MO, November
1, 2013

“The Irony of Discipline and Change in Piedmont North Carolina,” 28th Biennial
Conference on Faith & History, Gordon College, Wenham, Mass., October 6, 2012.

“’Domestic Felicity’ in the Antebellum South,” North Carolina State University

Graduate Student History Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 17, 2012.

“Discipline, Religion, and the Limits of Anti-Slavery in Piedmont North Carolina,”

2011 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic annual meeting,
Philadelphia, PA, July 24, 2011.

“Religion and the Limits of Anti-Slavery in Piedmont North Carolina,” 2011 Graduate
History Conference, Louisiana State University, March 26, 2011.

Commentator, “The Civil War as a Sensory Experience,” Society of Civil War

Historians Third Biennial Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, June 15, 2012.

Commentator, “Public History and Preservation at Home and Around the World,”
22nd Annual Graduate History Forum, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
March 27, 2010.

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"Be Prepared: Museums and the Sesquicentennial," North Carolina Museums
Council annual meeting, Fayetteville, North Carolina, March 6, 2008.

"Collections Planning at the North Carolina Museum of History," North Carolina

Museums Council annual meeting, Hickory, North Carolina, March 12, 2007.

"North Carolina Quartermaster Operations during the Civil War," numerous

locations.

"From Hillbilly to Redneck and Back," numerous locations.

SERVICE:

Volunteer, Virgin Islands National Park, Scope of Collections Statement, 2015

Advisory Board, Digital Library on American Slavery, University Libraries, University

of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015

Faculty co-sponsor, History Club, Guilford Tech Community College, 2011

Chair, Student Affairs Committee, North Carolina Museums Council, 2009-2011

Secretary, North Carolina Museums Council, 2005-2006