Keith Building 309
Joshua Lynn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- M. A., History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- B. A. History and Political Science, Marshall University
Research & Academic Interests
- 19th century U.S. Antebellum and Civil War America
- Politics and culture
- History of monsters and horror
Publications
- Preserving the White Man’s Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Paperback edition, 2021.
- “Stephen Douglas’s Enlightenment: Democracy, Race, and Rights in Civil War-Era Political Thought.” In “Conservatism in the Civil War North,” edited by Frank Towers and Andrew Wiley. Special issue, Civil War History 66, no. 3 (Sept. 2020): 272-94.
- “A Manly Doughface: James Buchanan and the Sectional Politics of Gender.” Journal of the Civil War Era 8, no. 4 (Dec. 2018): 591-620. Winner of the Richards Prize for the Best Article Published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2018.
- “From the Money Power to the Antislavery Power: Jacksonian Democracy and White Supremacy after Jackson.” In “Andrew Jackson at 250,” edited by Joshua A. Lynn. Special issue, Tennessee Historical Quarterly 76, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 276-91.
- “The ‘Black Douglass’ and the ‘White Douglas’: Embodying Sectional Politics in Antebellum America.” In The Gendered Republic: Women and Men in the United States, 1776-1861, edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover. Chapter submitted to editors.
- “Popular Sovereignty as Populism in the Early American Republic.” In People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity, edited by Christopher Barker and Robert G. Ingram, 144-59. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Associations, Affiliations & Work History
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
- Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
- Society of Civil War Historians
- Southern Historical Association
Awards & Accolades
- QEP 2021-2022 Critical Thinking Teaching Award, 2022, EKU
- QEP 2021-2022 Critical Thinking Teaching Award, 2022, EKU
- George and Ann Richards Prize for the Best Article Published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2018, 2018, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at The Pennsylvania State University