Dr. Kirt von Daacke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Lynchburg College
434/544-8327
vondaacke@lynchburg.edu
Experience/ Background
2004-present: Assistant Professor of History, Lynchburg College
2003-2004: Assistant Professor, History, Piedmont Virginia Community College
Degrees and Certifications
2004: Ph.D., History, The Johns Hopkins University
2000: M.A., History, The Johns Hopkins University
1997: B.A., History, High Distinction, University of Virginia
Honors and Awards
2002-2003: Visiting Scholar, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
2002: Batten fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies
1997: Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia
1996: Mary K. Rawlings Prize, Albermarle County Historical Society
1996: Golden Key National Honor Society
Professional/ Research Interests
My research interests center upon social constructions of race, community social hierarchies, and identity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. I am currently researching the fate of a late nineteenth-century interracial island fishing community in Down East Maine as part of a project exploring the complex interplay of racial identity and community structure in the Jim Crow era by comparing the experience of the Maine community with that of locales in Central Virginia. My manuscript, "Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Albermarle, 1780-1865," (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press) is forthcoming, 2009.
Information on Courses Taught
African-American History
History of the Antebellum South
Civil War and Reconstruction
U.S. History
World Civilizations
Professional Associations
Southern Historical Association
Virginia Historical Society
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians