Doctoral Candidate Teaching Assistant Cal Bedenbaugh is a doctoral candidate and historian of the late twentieth-century American South. His research focuses on intersection of the cultural, political, and economic history of labor amid the deindustrialization in the textile industry of the Piedmont South in the late twentieth century. He is a graduate of Clemson University, where he earned both a B.A. and an M.A. in history. His M.A. thesis, “Like a Death in the Family: The Textile Crisis in South Carolina, 1965-1990,” analyzes the demise of South Carolina's textile industry, the political scheming that surrounded it, and the reinvigorated political activism of millworkers. Research Research Areas: U.S. South U.S. 19th & 20th Century Labor History Political & Legal Capitalism and Economics Cultural & Intellectual Selected Publications Selected Publications: “Protecting the Community? Shelter Occupancy Studies at the University of Georgia, 1962-1968” Athens Historian 24 (2024): 21-29. Education Education: MA, History, Clemson University, 2021 BA, History, Clemson University, 2019 Other Information Of note: Ellison Durant Smith Research Award, University of South Carolina, 2025 Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History, Georgia State University, 2025 Ernest McPherson Lander, Jr. Award, Department of History and Geography, Clemson University, 2021
