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Carole Emberton, Assistant Professor office: 554 Park Hall email: emberton@buffalo.edu phone: (716) 645-8405

Education:
Ph.D. Northwestern University 2006
M.A. Loyola University Chicago 1999
B.A. University of Chicago 1997

Field(s): American

Hub(s): Culture & Society, Politics

Research Interests: Civil War & Reconstruction, Southern History, Legal History, the history of violence, crime and punishment

Current Research: I am currently revising my dissertation, "The Politics of Protection: Violence and the Political Culture of Reconstruction," for publication. The project examines how slave emancipation challenged Americans' ideas about the acceptability of collective violence, the role of guns in political life and culture, and the evolution of self-defense as a fundamental American right.

Selected Publications:
“The Limits of Incorporation: Violence, Gun Rights, and Gun Regulation in the Reconstruction South,” Stanford Law and Policy Review 17, no. 3 (2006): 615-34.

“Reconstructing Loyalty: The Problem of Allegiance in Post-Civil War America," in Reconstruction: The Unfinished Business of the Civil War, Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller, eds. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007).

Awards:

Faculty Fellow, Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo, Spring 2009

Mellon Visiting Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 2008

Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2008.

Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo, two grants, 2008-09

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2003-04

Huntington Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2003

Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 2003

Deep South Regional Humanities Center Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Tulane University, 2003

Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, 2003

John Hope Franklin Research Grant, Duke University, 2003