Mushal 1
Amanda R. Mushal
Assistant Professor
Department of History
The Citadel
171 Moultrie Street
Charleston, SC 29409
(843) 953-6883
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, expected May 2010.
Dissertation: “‘My Word Is My Bond’: Honor, Commerce, and Southern Nationalism, 1820-1860.” Director: Edward L. Ayers.
M.A., University of Virginia, 2003.
Thesis: “Marrying the Old South to the New: Personal Life and Economic Change in Sussex County, Virginia.” Director: Edward L. Ayers.
B.A., College of William and Mary, 2000 (summa cum laude).
Thesis: “Forested Fields: Agriculture, Silviculture, and Perceptions of the Southside Landscape, 1850-1860.” Director: James P. Whittenburg.
Publications and Presentations
“Bonds of Marriage and Community: Social Networks and the Development of a Commercial Middle Class in Antebellum South Carolina,” in Jonathan Wells and Jennifer Green, eds., The Southern Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming).
“‘His Word Is as Good as his Bond’: Commercial Honor, Southern Honor, and the National Economy, 1837-1860,” Economic and Business Historical Society Conference, Montgomery, Alabama, April 17-19, 2008.
“The Lie, the Duel, and the Middle Class: Honor and Social Mobility in the Antebellum South,”Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic Annual Conference, Springfield, Illinois, July 16-19, 2009.
Courses Taught
HIST 316: The Old South, Department of History, The Citadel, Fall 2009.
HIST 201: United States History to 1865,Department of History, The Citadel, Fall 2009.
Senior Research Seminar: Towns and Commerce in the Slave South, Department of History, University of Virginia, Spring 2007.
From the Revolution to the Civil War,The College of William and Mary,Pre-Collegiate Program in Early American History, National Institute of American History and Democracy, Summer 2005-2007.
Cultural Cross-Currents in the African Diaspora, African-American Studies Department, University of Virginia (Teaching Assistant), Spring 2005.
Introduction to African-American and African Studies, African-American Studies Department, University of Virginia (Teaching Assistant), Fall 2004.
Nature and Technology in America, Technology, Culture, and Communications Program,University of Virginia(Teaching Assistant), Spring 2004.
Rise and Fall of the Slave South, Department of History, University of Virginia(Teaching Assistant), Fall 2003.
Research-Related Projects
Edward L. Ayers et al., American Passages: A History of the United States, Fourth edition. (New York: Cengage, 2008). As research assistant, updated and condensed text for chapters covering the years 1815-1865 and developed new primary-source special features.
ROOTS: Teaching the African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas (Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade), NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers and University Professors, 2008 and 2009. Assistant to the Director, Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia.
Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving, VirginiaCenter for Digital History, University of Virginia ( Hypertext markup and proofreading, including entries in Spanish, French, and Portuguese, of bibliography published as an annual supplement to Slavery and Abolition. Project Director: Joseph C. Miller, Department of History, University of Virginia.
The Valley of the Shadow Project, VirginiaCenter for Digital History, University of Virginia ( Transcription of AugustaCounty, Virginia, death records; hypertext markup of Augusta CountyCivil War correspondence. Project Directors: Edward L. Ayers and William G. Thomas, III, Department of History, University of Virginia.
Atlantic World Online Resources, Virtual Jamestown, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia ( Survey of resources. Project Director: Crandall Shifflett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity.
St. Eustatius, NetherlandsAntilles. Documentation of extant eighteenth-century Caribbeanarchitecture. Project Director: Louis Nelson, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia.
FieldSchool in Architectural History, College of William and Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Documentation of Plainview, a nineteenth-century plantation complex in Middlesex County, Virginia. Project Director: Carl Lounsbury, Department of Architectural Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Academic Service
Faculty Advisor, History Club, The Citadel, 2009-2010.
Coordinator, Southern Seminar, University of Virginia, 2003-2004.
Public History
Research and public outreach program internships at the Aspen Historical Society, Aspen, CO;Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA;Dumbarton House (Headquarters of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America), Washington, D.C.; Tudor Place Foundation, Washington, D.C.