Greg O'Brien

 Greg O'Brien

Greg O'Brien

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Biography

University of North Carolina Greensboro - History


Resume

  • 2017

    Associate Department Head

    •Primary responsibility to construct the annual academic course schedule for the department \n•Manage the peer review of faculty teaching for the department\n•Identified and corrected via paperwork submission to the UNCG Graduate Studies Committee the course titles and schedule type designation of three graduate courses from SEM to IND in order to more accurately reflect faculty FTE production and produce a more accurate Instructional Analysis Summary Report

    2017-18\n•Corrected departmental understanding of the UNCG Online paperwork required for teaching online courses

    resulted in less paperwork for the department

    2017\n•Corrected departmental understanding of the undergraduate course scheduling guidelines

    resulting in more scheduling flexibility for the department

    Department of History

    UNC Greensboro

  • 2010

    Department of History

    UNC-Greensboro

    UNC Greensboro

    Department of History

    UNC Greensboro

    University of Southern Mississippi

    UNC-Greensboro

    Program in Native American Studies

    Dartmouth College

    UNC-Greensboro

    •Oversaw advising of graduate students in all aspects of the MA & PhD programs \n•Enacted policy changes in the following areas: PhD dissertation proposals

    PhD dissertation defenses

    PhD mentorship

    MA comprehensive exams

    PhD comprehensive exams

    and policy on online courses taken by graduate students\n•Guided the graduate program through the UNCG Program Review (2011-12)

    Departmental Self-Study and Outside Review (2013-14)

    and the College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Program Review (2014-15)\n•Oversaw the revision of the PhD minor fields from three defined fields to one flexible field focused on World/Global History

    2011\n•Oversaw the revision of the MA program from three concentrations (U.S.

    Europe

    and concentration in Museum Studies) to two concentrations (MA in History and concentration in Museum Studies)

    2012-13\n•Created several departmental graduate program web-pages to publicize the careers and\taccomplishments of our graduate students and alumni in 2011

    constantly updated\n

    Department of History

    UNC-Greensboro

  • 2002

    Greg

    O'Brien

    Department of History

    University of Southern Mississippi

    Department of History

    University of Southern Mississippi

    Professor

    UNC Greensboro

    Professor

    University of Southern Mississippi

    Visiting Professor

    Hanover

    NH

    Program in Native American Studies

    Dartmouth College

  • 1996

    PhD

    American History

    Phi Kappa Phi

    Academic Honor Society

    University of Kentucky

  • 1992

    MA

    History

    Phi Alpha Theta

    History Honor Society

    James Madison University

  • 1984

    BA

    History & Political Science

    Randolph-Macon College

  • Grant Writing

    Curriculum Design

    Teaching

    Lecturing

    University Teaching

    Public Speaking

    Higher Education

    Editing

    Writing

    Microsoft Office

    Nonprofits

    History

    Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age

    1750-1830

    This evocative story of the Choctaws is told through the lives of two remarkable leaders

    Taboca and Franchimastabé

    during a period of revolutionary change

    1750-1830. Both men achieved recognition as warriors in the eighteenth century but then followed very different paths of leadership. Taboca was a traditional Choctaw leader

    a \"prophet-chief\" whose authority was deeply rooted in the spiritual realm. The foundation of Franchimastabé's power was more externally driven

    resting on trade with Europeans and American colonists and the acquisition of manufactured goods. Franchimastabé responded to shifting circumstances outside the Choctaw nation by pushing the source of authority in novel directions

    straddling spiritual and economic power in a way unfathomable to Taboca. The careers of these leaders signal a watershed moment in Choctaw history – the receding of a traditional mystically oriented world and the dawning of a new market-oriented one. \r\nAt once engaging and informative

    Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age

    1750–1830 highlights the efforts of a nation to preserve its integrity and reform its strength in an increasingly complicated

    multicultural world.

    Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age

    1750-1830

    “Indigenous Mississippi Literature”

    Backcasts celebrates this centuries-old confluence of fly fishing and conservation. However religious

    however patiently spiritual the tying and casting of the fly may be

    no angler wishes to wade into rivers of industrial runoff or cast into waters devoid of fish or full of invasive species like the Asian carp. So it comes as no surprise that those who fish have long played an active

    foundational role in the preservation

    management

    and restoration of the world’s coldwater fisheries. With sections covering the history of fly fishing; the sport’s global evolution

    from the rivers of South Africa to Japan; the journeys of both native and nonnative trout; and the work of conservation organizations such as the Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited

    Backcasts casts wide.\n\nHighlighting the historical significance of outdoor recreation and sports to conservation in a collection important for fly anglers and scholars of fisheries ecology

    conservation history

    and environmental ethics

    Backcasts explores both the problems anglers and their organizations face and how they might serve as models of conservation—in the individual trout streams

    watersheds

    and landscapes through which these waters flow.

    “The Fly-Fishing Engineer: George T. Dunbar

    Jr. and the Conservation Ethic in Antebellum America”

    From 2013 to 2018

    I was executive editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Native South.

    Native South Journal

    Tamara Harvey

    George Washington's South brings together a diverse array of essays by scholars in the fields of history

    literature

    art history

    and anthropology

    focusing on Washington

    the development of regional identity in the South

    and interactions among many of the region's people. The contributors examine the relationship between George Washington's varied and contradictory careers as a southern planter

    general

    and president and the emergence of the American South during the 18th century. They explore how regional identity is formed and how the life of Washington reflects the diversity of race

    gender

    and frontier experiences that confronted the American South during the years of the Early Republic.

    George Washington's South

    The history of Native Americans is a varied story of different tribes and loyalties preceding European contact

    of near eradication when Europeans first settled

    of colonization

    collaboration

    war

    dispossession

    attempts at assimilation and the ultimate establishing of reservations.\n\nIn the 15th and 16th centuries the first contact with Europeans introduced diseases to North America that some tribes were wiped out completely. The reintroduction of the horse to North America by the settlers changed the way that the Native Americans lived and hunted. As the British and French in the 17th century fought over their colonies

    so they also fought over the alliances with Native American tribes

    only for the British and the newly proclaimed United States in the 18th century to repeat the pattern. After American Independence

    the Native American lands were encroached upon even further

    leading to a move westward.\n\nA Chronology of Native Americans charts the history of the Sioux

    Cherokee

    Mohawk and other tribes of North America from prehistory through the centuries of European settlement and reservations to the present day. The book includes full-colour and black and white artworks and photographs. At the foot of each text page is a timeline linking events that were happening elsewhere at the time.

    Chronology of Native Americans

    In the past two decades

    new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O’Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going.\n \nDistinguished scholars James Taylor Carson

    Patricia Galloway

    and Clara Sue Kidwell join editor Greg O’Brien to present today’s most important research

    while Choctaw writer and filmmaker LeAnne Howe offers a vital counterpoint to conventional scholarly views. In a chronological survey of topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s

    essayists take stock of the great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory.\n \nGalloway explains the Choctaw civil war as an interethnic conflict. Carson reassesses the role of Chief Greenwood LeFlore. Kidwell explores the interaction of Choctaws and Christian missionaries. A new essay by O’Brien explores the role of Choctaws during the American Revolution as they decided whom to support and why. The previously unpublished proceedings of the 1786 Hopewell treaty reveal what that agreement meant to the Choctaws.\n \nTaken together

    these and other essays show how ethnohistorical approaches and the “new Indian history” have influenced modern Choctaw scholarship. No other recent collection focuses exclusively on the Choctaws

    making Pre-removal Choctaw History an indispensable resource for scholars and students of American Indian history

    ethnohistory

    and anthropology.\n

    Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths

    Hurricanes

    floods

    oil spills

    disease

    and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat

    frequency

    and management of this region’s disasters from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Scholars from the fields of history

    sociology

    and anthropology examine the underlying causes of vulnerability to natural hazards in the coastal states while also suggesting ways to increase resilience.\nGreg O’Brien considers the New Orleans flood of 1849; Andy Horowitz

    the Galveston storm of 1900; and Christopher M. Church

    the 1928 hurricane in Florida and the Caribbean. Urmi Engineer Willoughby delves into the turn-of-the-century yellow fever outbreaks in New Orleans and local attempts to eradicate them

    while Abraham H. Gibson and Cindy Ermus discuss the human introduction of invasive species and their long-term impact on the region’s ecosystem. Roberto E. Barrios looks at political-ecological susceptibility in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward

    and Kevin Fox Gotham treats storm- and flood-defense infrastructures. In his afterword

    Ted Steinberg ponders what the future holds when the capitalist state supports an unwinnable battle between land developers and nature.\nThese case studies offer new ways of understanding humans’ interactions with the unique

    and at times unforgiving

    environment of the Gulf South. These lessons are particularly important as we cope with the effects of climate change and seek to build resilience and reduce vulnerability through enhanced awareness

    adequate preparation

    and efficient planning.

    “Satire and Politics in the New Orleans Flood of 1849”

    In The Native South

    Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship systems

    Cherokee notions of guilt and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence

    Indian captives and American empire

    and second-wave feminist activism among Cherokee women in the 1970s

    The Native South offers a dynamic examination of ethnohistorical methodology and evolving research subjects in southern Native American history. \n\nTheda Perdue and Michael Green

    pioneers in the modern historiography of the Native South who developed it into a major field of scholarly inquiry today

    speak in interviews with the editors about how that field evolved in the late twentieth century after the foundational work of James Mooney

    John Swanton

    Angie Debo

    and Charles Hudson.\n\nThis collection offers original essays for scholars

    graduate students

    and undergraduates in this field of American history

    including Mikaela Adams

    James T. Carson

    Tim Alan Garrison

    Izumi Ishii

    Malinda Maynor Lowery

    Rowena McClinton

    David Nichols

    Greg O’Brien

    Meg Devlin O’Sullivan

    Julie Reed

    Christina Snyder

    and Rose Stemlau.

    The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies

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