Max Grivno
Assistant Professor
PhD, Maryland, 2007
Liberal Arts Building 404
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. Dr. Grivno’s first book, Gleanings of Freedom: Free Labor and Slavery along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860, will be published in October 2011 as part of the University of Illinois Press’s series The Working Class in American History. Grivno is currently conducting research on efforts to organizing southern pulpwood cutters and is preparing a book-length monograph on slavery in Mississippi. His research has been funded by a Reed-Fink Award from the Southern Labor History Archives at Georgia State Unity, a Bell Fellowship from the Forest History Center, and an oral history grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council. In 2010, Grivno received the Faculty Senate/University President Junior Faculty Research Award. The following year, he received one of the University’s Lucas Award for Faculty Excellence. Dr. Grivno’s teaching interests include the Old South, slavery, labor history, and Mississippi history.
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