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Sam Badger
Title: | Graduate Student PhD |
Department: | Department of History College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | SB147@email.sc.edu |
Advisors: Dr. Kent Germany and Dr. Patricia Sullivan
Bio:
I was born and raised in Plymouth, Michigan. I studied at the University of Alabama
for five years and earned a BA and MA. My BA is in Political Science and Economics,
and my MA is in History.
I am broadly focused on the political history of the twentieth-century U.S. South.
I am especially interested in southern politicians and movements broadly defined as
"liberal." I am curious about what exactly it means to be a "liberal" or "progressive"
in the context of an apartheid social order. I am also increasingly interested in
patronage in southern state governments and its effects on southern political subjectivity.
I think studying southern bureaucrats raises questions about the degree to which the
twentieth-century South was "modern." I think that questions about the uneven development
of modernity in the twentieth-century South may provide interesting answers about
the South's political evolution.