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Jason Vickers

Assistant Professor of Instruction

CONTACT information and cv

Office: SOC 211
Email: vickers1@usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of South Florida, 2015

TEACHING

I currently teach both halves of the American history survey, AMH 2010 and AMH 2020, along with a War and Society course (HIS 3308) on the history of slavery and sectionalism in the United States, titled “A Divided America, 1776-1877.”  My interest in the portrayal of American history in film has led to the creation of an Honors course, “History by Hollywood: Telling American Stories at the Movies.”  All my courses are primarily lecture-based with targeted discussions of the written record of the past – primary historical documents.  Essentially, I tell stories in the classroom, pulling together a narrative that focuses on the idea of freedom in America and what it has meant to various groups at different times in our collective past.  Freedom is treated as a contested area of terrain that each successive generation of Americans define together.

RESEARCH

While teaching has been my primary focus, my curiosity about antebellum life led me to publish an article on the utopian community at Oneida in the journal American Nineteenth-Century History (2013), “That Deep Kind of Discipline of Spirit’: Freedom, Power, Family, Marriage, and Sexuality in the Story of John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community.”  I am also continuing to work on revising and publishing pieces of my dissertation, which explored the image of Africa in Black consciousness across the nineteenth century.