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Clay Ouzts, Ph.D.

Clay Ouzts

Professor, History

Phone678-717-3651

Office locationStrickland Academic, 149,
Student Resource Center, 594,

Area(s) of Expertise: American History, Environmental History, Environmental Studies

Overview

Dr. Ouzts specializes in U.S. History with concentrations in the U.S. Civil War, Native American History, and Environmental Studies.

Courses Taught

  • HIST 2111: U.S. History to 1877
  • HIST 2112: U.S. History from 1877
  • HIST 2060: Environmental History
  • HIST 3157: Native American History
  • HIST 3180: The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • HIST 4161: Studies in American Revelation 

Education

  • A.A., Anderson College, 1981
  • B.S., Education/Recreation, University of Georgia, 1985
  • MA., History, West Georgia College, 1989
  • Ph.D., History, Florida State University, 1996

Research/Special Interests

Nature, Environment, Native American, 19th Century U. S. , Civil War, American Revolution

Publications

See Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

  • 2003 - Present: Professor of History and Environmental Studies, ǧÃŬAV
  • 1998 - 2003: Associate Professor of History, Truett-McConnell College
  • 1997 - 1998: Instructor of History, ǧÃŬAV
  • 1996 - 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, State University of West Georgia
  • 1993 - 1994: Adjunct Instructor, Flordia State University

Publications

Journal Articles:

"'The Man Who Builded on a Rock was Wise': The Genesis of Elberton's Granite Industry, 1882-1900," Georgia Historical Quarterly. Winter 2002. 587-616.

"Landlords and Tenants: Sharecropping and the Cotton Culture in Leon County, Florida, 1865- 1885," Florida Historical Quarterly. Summer 1996, 1-23.

"Maxcy Gregg and His Brigade of South Carolinians at the Battle of Fredericksburg," South Carolina Historical Magazine, January 1994, 6-26.

Encyclopedia:

"Dandelions" in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. 2006.

"Boll Weevil" in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2006.

"Weeds" in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2006.

"Tennessee Valley Authority" in the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. 2006.

"Railroad Bill Slater," in the Alabama Encyclopedia of History, 2005.

"Elbert County" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

"Elberton" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

"Elberton's Granite Industry" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

"The Georgia Guidestones" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003.

"Petersburg" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. 2003.

Book Reviews:

Lt. Robert T. Hubard Jr., The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman, Edited by Thomas P. Nanzig in H-NET BOOK REVIEW, Swnmer 2007.

Jonathan Dean Sarris, A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South. in H-NET BOOK REVIEW, Spring 2007.

George F. Pearce. Pensacola During the Civil War: A Thorn in the Side of the Confederacy in the Alabama Review. July 2002.

Alex Leichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor: Convict Leasing in the South in the Florida Historical Quarterly. Fall 1996.

R. Lockwood Tower, Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865. in the Kentucky Historical Society's The Register, Fall 1995 .