John Garrison Marks

Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University

Department of History PO Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77251

jgm4@rice.edu

Education
2012 2012 2010 Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University, Department of History M.A., Rice University, Department of History Fields: U.S. South, Latin America, 19th Century United States B.A., Lynchburg College, History and Spanish Cum Laude, Highest Honors

Publications
2013 2010 2009 2007 Community Bonds in the Bayou City: Free Blacks and Local Reputation in Early Houston, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, (forthcoming, 2013). Jubal Earlys Trains: The Battle of Lynchburg in Historical Memory, Istoria Journal, Lynchburg College. Community and Kinship in the Rural South: The Yeoman Farmer Sharp Family, Istoria Journal, Lynchburg College. Abdication and Acceptance: Slave Trading in Antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia The Agora, Lynchburg College, http://www.agorajournal.org/x9368.html.

Digital Scholarship
2012 2011 On Applying for a Fulbright, GradHacker, May 4, 2012, http://www.gradhacker.org/2012/05/04/on-applying-for-a-fulbright/ Slavery and the Law in the Old South, Connexions Module, http://cnx.org/content/m40377/1.1

Presentations
2013 2011 200610 "Legislating Proslavery Ideology: The Texas Self-Enslavement Law of 1858, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Honesty, Industry, and Integrity: Free Blacks in Harris County, Texas, 1838 1863, Phi Alpha ThetaAmerican Panel, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Various regional undergraduate conferences, including Phi Alpha Theta, Virginia Social Sciences Association, and others, as well as the Phi Alpha Theta national conference in San Diego, CA.

Awards and Fellowships

2012 2011 2010 Graduate Assistant, Race Scholars at Rice, Rice University Southern Historical Association Summer Editorial Internship W.W. Ferguson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in History, Lynchburg College

2009 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 200610 200610

Shoemaker Study Abroad Scholarship, Lynchburg College Phi Alpha Theta Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Finalist Program Jeanne Roberts Bickner Award in History, Lynchburg College North Award, best essay published The Agora Phi Eta Sigma Deans List Society of Westover Fellows, Lynchburg College Honors Program

Professional Service
201213 201213 2012 2012 2012 201012 201112 2011 Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, Rice University (20122013) Graduate Student Representative, Athletics Committee, Rice University Peer Review Referee, Virginia Social Science Journal Book Reviewer, South Carolina Historical Magazine Book Reviewer, Journal of African American History Editorial Assistant, Journal of Southern History Assistant Graduate Student Representative, History Department, Rice University Archival Assistant, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

Teaching
2013 2012 Teaching Assistant, First-Year Writing Intensive Seminar (FWIS) 168, Building Design Problems, Program in Writing and Communication, Dr. Alan L. Fleischacker Teaching Assistant, FWIS 112, Borges, Cortzar, and Latin American Fantastic Fiction, Program in Writing and Communication Course, Dr. Lane Kauffman