John Garrison Marks
jgm4[at]rice.edu (e-mail me for more specific contact information)
Education
PhD Program, History, Rice University 2010–present
Major Field: Southern History, Minor Fields: 19th Century United States, Latin America
B.A., History and Spanish, Lynchburg College May 2010, cum laude
Awards and Recognition
Southern Historical Association Summer Editorial Internship (2011)
W.W. Ferguson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in History (2010)
Shoemaker Scholarship for Study Abroad (2009)
Phi Alpha Theta (2008)
Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Finalist Program (2007)
Jeanne Roberts Brickner Award in History (2007)
North Award, for best essay published in 2007 issue of The Agora (2007)
Phi Eta Sigma, freshmen academic honor society (2007)
Dean’s List, (All Undergraduate Semesters)
Society of Westover Fellows, Lynchburg College honors program (2006–2010)
Publications
“Jubal Early’s Trains: The Battle of Lynchburg in Historical Memory”, Istoria Journal, Lynchburg College, (2010).
“Community and Kinship in the Rural South: The Yeoman Farmer Sharp Family,” Istoria Journal, Lynchburg College, (2009).
“Abdication and Acceptance: Slave Trading in Antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia” The Agora, Lynchburg College, (2007).
Digital Scholarship
“Slavery and the Law in the Old South,” Connexions Module, August 10, 2011.
Conference Presentations
October 2011: “Honesty, Industry, and Integrity: Free Blacks in Harris County, Texas, 1838–1863,” Phi Alpha Theta—American Panel, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Fall 2006–May 2010: Various regional undergraduate conferences, including Phi Alpha Theta, Virginia Social Sciences Association, and others, as well as the Phi Alpha Theta national conference in San Diego, CA.
Courses
TA – Spanish 150, “Borges, Cortázar, and Latin American Fantastic Fiction,” Rice University, Program in Writing and Communication course, taught by Dr. Lane Kaufmann (Fall 2012).