Instructor of History

EMAIL: jcmerritt@muw.edu

About Dr. Merritt

BA, Valdosta State University
MA, University of Alabama
PhD, University of Alabama

Teaching Areas: American history
Research Areas: Cold War, 20th century popular culture, US political history

Selected Publications:

Review of Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (2012), Journal of Mississippi History, Vol. XXXIV, Spring 2013. 

Review of Kimberly L. Phillips, War! What is it Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq (2011), The Southern Historian, Vol. XXXIV, Spring 2013.

Review of Janet G. Hudson, Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-era South Carolina (2009), The Southern Historian, Vol. XXXIII, Spring 2012.