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School of Arts & Humanities Faculty
Kenneth H. Wheeler Academic Degrees Teaching Interests: Prof. Wheeler teaches a variety of courses in American history, including Civil War & Reconstruction, History of Georgia, Religion in America, American History to 1865, and American History since 1865. Awards: Prof. Wheeler has been honored with awards while at Reinhardt College, including the Vulcan Excellence in Teaching Award (2003-2004), the Captain A. M. Reinhardt Award for his dedication to Reinhardt College (2004), and the Elizabeth Moss Bailey Faculty Mentor Award (2008) for his work with students. Advisor to the History Club: Prof. Wheeler has served as faculty advisor to the student-led Reinhardt College History Club since its founding. Among other activities, the History Club has toured Washington, D.C., taken a Civil Rights tour of Alabama, attended Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School class in Plains, visited the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, hiked at Pickett’s Mill Battlefield, and worked with the Funk Heritage Center on special occasions. Scholarly Interests: Prof. Wheeler has research interests in regional identity and higher education, Southern iron making, and violence studies. He has recently delivered scholarly papers to the Georgia Association of Historians, the Southern Industrialization Project, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. His most recent publication is “Higher Education in the Antebellum Ohio Valley: Slavery, Sectionalism, and the Erosion of Regional Identity,” in the journal Ohio Valley History. His essays have also appeared in the Journal of Social History, Civil War History, and Historical Methods. He has also contributed essays to Builders of Ohio, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, and The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic. Contact Information: |
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