Max Grivno
Assistant Professor
PhD, Maryland, 2007
Liberal Arts Building 404
601-266-4801
max.grivno@usm.edu
Max Grivno joined the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi in 2007 after completing his doctorate at the University of Maryland. While completing his degree, Grivno worked as a historian with both the National Park Service and the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, a documentary editing project whose work focuses on emancipation and Reconstruction. In 2008, Grivno’s doctoral dissertation was named a finalist for the Labor and Working Class History Association’s Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize and the winner of both the University of Maryland’s Richard T. Farrell Prize and the Southern Historical Association’s C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Award. He is currently revising his dissertation—“‘There Slavery Cannot Dwell’: Agriculture and Labor in Northern Maryland, 1790-1860”—for publication. Grivno’s research and teaching interests include slavery, labor history, southern history, and the early national period.
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Department of History
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