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Brian K. Fennessy

Adviser: Harry L. Watson

Graduate Email: fennessy@live.unc.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A. Sewanee: University of the South, 2012
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

Research Interests

My dissertation, “Reconstructed Rebels: The Ex-Confederate Allies of Congressional Reconstruction,” examines former Confederates who joined the Republican Party. My research interests include 19th and 20th century U.S. history and the long history of American empire, nation-building, political institutions, and citizenship.


554A Pauli Murray Hall*
102 Emerson Dr., CB #3195
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

*Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
phone: 919.962.2115
fax: 919.962.1403
email: history@unc.edu
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