Adam Dean, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History
John M. Turner Chair in the Humanities

434.544.7253
dean.aw@lynchburg.edu
Carnegie 114

Experience

Fall 2019 – Spring 2021, John M. Turner Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, University of Lynchburg
July 2017 – Present, Associate Professor, University of Lynchburg
July 2011 – June 2017, Assistant Professor, University of Lynchburg
June 2010-2011, Jefferson Fellowship Program Coordinator, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, Charlottesville, Va.
Fall 2010, Adjunct Professor, University of Richmond
Summer-Fall 2010, Adjunct Professor, University of Virginia
April 2008 – September 2008, Natural Resources Technician, Virginia Department of Forestry, Charlottesville, Va.
Fall 2006 – 2009, Instructor, University of Virginia

“Natural Glory in the Midst of War: The Establishment of Yosemite State Park,” Civil War History 4 (2010): 386-419
“‘Who Controls the Past Controls the Future’: Southern Textbooks in an Era of Civil Rights,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 117 (2009): 315-55

“Horse Soldiers: George Moulton and the Second New Jersey Cavalry,” Aleph: UCLA Undergraduate Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2005): 115-135
“The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo: Subversion of the Military Government,” Quaestio UCLA Undergraduate History Journal 3 (June 2005): 7-11

Margaret T. Peters, Conserving the Commonwealth: The Early Years of the Environmental Movement in Virginia, Environmental History 15 (2010): 341-42
“Technology, Industry & Innovation,” Pennsylvania Heritage Society for the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War
“James Fenimore Cooper,” in Kathleen A. Brosnan, ed., 4 vols., Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (New York: Facts on File, 2010)
Pierre Nora, ed., Rethinking France: Les Lieux de Mémoire, Volume 2: Space, Virginia Quarterly Review 83 (2007): 301

“‘A Higher Law than the Constitution;’ The Republican Party and United States Nationalism,” American Historical Association Conference, Boston, MA, January 2011
“An Agrarian Republic: Northern Nationalism During the Civil War,” The Society of Civil War Historians Biennial Academic Conference, Richmond, VA, June 2010
“The Creation of Wartime Union Nationalism,” Society for History in the Federal Government Conference, College Park, MD, March 2010
“‘Rude and Nature-Murdering Tillage:’ The Environmental Origins of Anti-Slavery Politics,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Portland, OR, February 2010
“‘The Destiny of the New World and the Duty of a Republican Government’ The Foundation of Yosemite State Park,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, Tallahassee, FL, February 2009
“‘Who Controls the Past Controls the Future:’ Southern Textbooks in an Era of Civil Rights,” Jefferson Scholars Foundation Academic Conference, Charlottesville, VA, February 2007

William C. Coleman McGhee Award for Best Article by a Graduate Student, July 2010
Given by the Virginia Historical Society for “Who Controls the Past, Controls the Future”
John L. Nau III Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia, 2005-
2010
Gary D. Nash Award for Best Honors Thesis in American History, UCLA, 2005

I enjoy writing, teaching, running, cycling, fly-fishing, and hiking with my dog.