Samantha M. Bryant 612 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0327 (434) 426-1019 { HYPERLINK "mailto:sbryant21@huskers.unl.edu" } EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of History, Lincoln, NE, Degree Expected May 2018 Dissertation: Black Monster Stalks the City : The Thomas Wansley Case and the Racialized Politics of Sexuality from Civil Rights to Black Power, 1960-1975 Examination Fields: United States History, 1865 to Present (Major Field); United States Cultural History (Special Field); Comparative World: Gender and Sexuality (Minor Field) Dissertation Committee: Patrick D. Jones (Advisor), Thomas Borstelmann, Margaret D. Jacobs, Jeannette Eileen Jones, and Alice Kang (Outside Reader: Political Science and Ethnic Studies) M.A. James Madison University, Department of History, Harrisonburg, VA, May 2013 B.A. Lynchburg College, Department of History, Summa Cum Laude, Lynchburg, VA, May 2011 PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming, Book Review, The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955 by Lindsey R. Swindall, The Journal of African American History (Washington, DC: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.) Forthcoming Book Review, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State by Megan Ming Francis, The Journal of African American History (Washington, DC: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.) 2015 Film Review, Mysterious Skin, Middle West Review (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press) 2015 Nebraska, in Kathleen Arnold, ed., Contemporary Immigration in America: A State-by-State Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2016 Black Monster Stalks the City : The Thomas Wansley Case, Black Manhood, and the Racialized Cultural Landscape of the U.S. Prison
Industrial Complex, 1960-1975, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM 2014 The Dixie Divide: An Analysis of Region, Identity, and Civil Rights Protest in Southern Jewish Communities, 1945-65, Brandeis University, American Studies Conference 2014: Blacks, Jews, and Social Justice in America, Waltham, MA 2013 We Long For a Home : Anti-Semitism in the United States After the Second World War, Virginia Tech, Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Conference, Blacksburg, VA 2012 The Plight of Partition: An Analysis of the Division between President Harry S. Truman and U.S. Defense and State Department Officials Position on the Palestine Question (1945-1948), University of California-Los Angeles, Second Annual UCLA History Graduate Student Conference: The Politics of History/The History of Politics, Los Angeles, CA 2012 Stone and Lace: An Analysis of Masculinity in Buster Keaton Films (1920-1928), Louisiana State University, Annual Graduate Conference at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 2011 The Road to Recognition: The Division Between the U.S. War and Defense Departments and the White House Concerning the Recognition of Israel (1945-48), Virginia Military Institute, Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium, Lexington, VA 2011 The Road to Recognition: The Division Between the U.S. War and Defense Departments and the White House Concerning the Recognition of Israel (1945-48), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Graduate History Forum, Charlotte, NC TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2015 Teaching Assistant, U.S. History To 1877, Lecture by Kenneth J. Winkle, 2015 Recitation Leader, U.S. History After 1877, Lecture by Jeannette Eileen Jones, 2014 Teaching Assistant, Nineteenth-Century America, Lecture by Timothy R. Mahoney, 2014 Teaching Assistant, Ancient Greece, Lecture by Vanessa Gorman,
2013 Teaching Assistant, Western Civilization Since 1715, Lecture by James D. Le Sueur, 2013 Teaching Assistant, U.S. History Survey, Lecture by Rebecca Brannon, 2012 Teaching Assistant, U.S. History Survey, Lecture by Kirsten Dyck, 2011-2012 Teaching Assistant, U.S. History Survey, Lecture by Rebecca Brannon, INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2015 Guest Lecturer, Reconstruction, 1865-1877, U.S. History To 1877, Professor Kenneth J. Winkle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2015 Guest Lecturer, The Black Freedom Movement: From Civil Rights to Black Power (1963-1968), U.S. History After 1877, Professor Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2014 Guest Lecturer, Edith Wharton and Gilded Age Elite Society, Nineteenth- Century America, Professor Timothy R. Mahoney, University of Nebraska- Lincoln 2014 Guest Lecturer, A Wolf by the Ears : Slavery, Memory, and the American South, Nineteenth-Century America, Professor Timothy R. Mahoney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013 Guest Lecturer, Blackness, Masculinity, and Chester Himes s If He Hollers Let Him Go, American Workers in the Industrial Age, Professor Steven A. Reich, James Madison University 2013 Guest Lecturer, The Origins of the Cold War, U.S. History Survey, Professor Rebecca Brannon, James Madison University RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2016 Research Assistant,, Lincoln, NE Project: O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family Faculty Advisor: William G. Thomas III 2015 Research Assistant,, Lincoln, NE Project: The Roz Payne Collection, 1960s-1970s
Faculty Advisor: Patrick D. Jones 2014 Public Advocacy Consultant, Racial Profiling in Nebraska Project, Nebraska Appleseed, Lincoln, NE 2013-2015 IT Specialist, The Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Project: Jefferson s University the early life Faculty Advisors: Maurie D. McInnis and Kirt von Daacke 2013 Catching Stories: Oral History Institute, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 2010 Monticello Archaeological Field School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2016 Doctoral Fellowship in North American History, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 2015-2016 Mary Lily Research Grant, Sallie Bingham Center for Women s History and Culture, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, NC 2014-2015 Summersell Center Short-Term Fellowship, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 2011 Graduate Research Fellow, Center for Faculty Innovation, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 2010-2011 Research Fellow, George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, VA AWARDS AND HONORS 2011 W.W. Ferguson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in History, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA 2009 Gilder Lehrman One-Week Scholar, New York University, New York City, NY 2009 Jeanne Roberts Bickner Award in History, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA 2007-2009 Dean s List, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA
ACADEMIC SERVICE 2015-2016 Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Research Committee, 2015-2016 Associate James A. Rawley Conference Chair in the Humanities, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2015 Workshop Coordinator, Teaching Gender and Sexuality Workshop, 2015 Planning Committee, Fall Campus-wide Workshop for Graduate Teaching Assistants, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2014-2015 Webmaster, Virginia Social Sciences Association 2014-2015 President, History Graduate Students Association, University of Nebraska- Lincoln 2013-2014 Publicity Committee, History Graduate Students Association, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013 Constitutional Committee, History Graduate Students Association, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013 National History Day Volunteer, History Department, James Madison University PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Organization of American Historians Phi Alpha Theta Virginia Social Sciences Association LANGUAGES French: Intermediate reading and writing