Graduate Alumnus Research Research Areas: Cultural & Intellectual Digital History Early America Imperialism & Colonialism U.S. 19th & 20th Century U.S. South Dissertation/Thesis Title: Georgia Imagined, Georgia Illustrated: Reading the Landscape, 1717-1859 Degree Completion Date: Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:00pm Other Information Of note: Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistantship Award, UGA Department of History, Presented annually by the Department of History to outstanding teaching assistants, 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 2008-2009 Best Paper, Southern American Studies Association Conference, 2005 John and Barbara Nau Graduate Fellow, The Stonewall Jackson Foundation and Washington and Lee University, 2001 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, The Graduate School Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Georgia, 2008 Thomas Pleasant Vincent Sr. Award, UGA History Department, 2009 John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2009-2010 Cleanth Brooks Dissertation Forum, The St. George Tucker Society, 2009 Gilder Lehrman Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2009 Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History, GA Secretary of State / Georgia Historical Records