EDUCATION:  Doctor of Philosophy in History, 1984, Vanderbilt,
                      University; Master of Arts in History, 1973, Vanderbilt
                      University; Bachelor of Arts in History and English, 1971,
                      Mississippi College, Clinton, MS;additional graduate study in
                      psychology and educational administration 1974-78,
                      Auburn Univ. at Montgomery, Troy State University, and
                      Univ. of Alabama.

Dissertation:   "Retrenchment, Reform, and Empire: Lord Kimberley and
                        the Liberal Imperial Dilemma, 1868-74," Vanderbilt 1984,
                        under direction of professor Frederick Schneider.

Honors, Awards, Citations:

                        -2006 USM Heroes of Katrina Faculty Service Award for
                        Extraordinary Leadership in Academic Program Recovery
                        at USM Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.            
                        -1997 Carter G. Woodson Best Article Award, Journal of
                        Negro History
                        -1997 USM Faculty Excellence Award for University Service
                        -1997 Mississippi Humanities Council Chairman's Award for
                        Excellence in Public Humanities Programming
                        -1997 MHC Outstanding Humanities Instructor, USM Gulf|
                        Coast
                        -1995 Claude Ramsay Award, Mississippi Democratic
                        Party
                        -1995 Voice of Democracy Award Citation, Veterans of
                        Foreign Wars
                        -1994 Who's Who Among America's Teachers
                        -1992 Mississippi Humanities Council Inaugural Lecture on
                        Civic Virtue for Inauguration of Gov. Fordice
                        -1991 Recipient of the State Democratic Party Governor's
                         Award for outstanding achievement & service
                        -1989 Representative of Governor Ray Mabus at the
                        National Governor's Association Conference on International
                        Education, April, 1989

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION:

Jointly Authored Book:

            James Patterson Smith with Gilbert R. Mason, Beaches, Blood and Ballots: A Black Doctor’s Civil Rights Struggle. Jackson, MS.: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.  (Note: More than 2,700 copies sold to date.)

Monograph:
            Civic Virtue: Cato's Letters, the Founding Fathers, and the New Mississippi, Jackson, MS.: Mississippi Humanities Council, 1992.   (Note: This publication went through two editions of
1,000 copies each and was used as a text reading for MHC sponsored public forums on civic virtue throughout the state in 1992.)

Chapters in Books:

            “Local Leadership, the Biloxi Beach Riot, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement on the Mississippi Gulf Coast,” in The Civil Rights Movement in the Gulf South, Edited by Samuel Hyde, Jr.  Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2003.

            "Mississippi's European Colonial Era, 1699-1810," in Atlas of Mississippi, Jackson, MS: Mississippi University Press, (Publication Forthcoming).

Major Journal Articles Published in Referred Journals:

            "Reconstructing the Gulf South's Colonial Past:  Progress in  Recovering the History of the British West Florida Colony, 1763-1783," The Journal of Mississippi History 60(Spring 1998), 21-49.

            "Empire and Social Reform: British Liberals and the Civilizing Mission in the Sugar Colonies, 1868-74," Albion 27 (Summer 1995): 251-275.

            "The Riel Rebellion of 1869:  New Light on British Liberals and the Use of Force on the Canadian Frontier,"  The Journal of Canadian Studies, 30(Summer 1995):

            "The Liberals, Race and Political Reform in the British West Indies, 1866 -1874," The Journal of Negro History, 79 (Spring 1994): 131-147.

Reviews Published in Refereed Journals:
               
Major Review Essay:  

”Chronicling Grass Roots African American Communities and Activists: A Comparative Review of Randal M. Jelks’ African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids, Matthew C. Whittaker’s Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West, and Winston A. Grady Willis’ Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and the Black Struggle for Civil Rights 1960-1977" The Journal of American Ethnic History (2007).

Book Reviews

                “Review of Devil’s Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes by Alex Alston and James Dickerson.” in The Journal of Mississippi History(Forthcoming).

                “Review of Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections Work During the Civil Rights Era,by Phyllis Palmer.”  In The Journal of American Ethnic History (Forthcoming).
                “Review of Edward Mazique, M.D.: A Black Physician’s Struggle for Civil Rights, by Florence Ridlon. In The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61 (January 2006): 17-19.

                “Review of The Forgotten Expedition: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter edited by Trey Berry, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements in The Journal of Mississippi History (Winter 2006).