F. Andrew McMichael
Associate Professor of History
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd. Bldg #21086
Bowling Green, KY 42101
(270) 745-7023
andrew.mcmichael@wku.edu
Positions
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Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University, 2007 – present
Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, 2002 – 2007
Assistant Editor, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University. 2000-2002
Current Projects
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Researching an article meant to contextualize slave punishment across the colonial
Atlantic World through an analysis of the racialization of torture and severe punishment.
I begin my examination within the context of medieval torture, colonial punishment of
whites and Africans, as well as punishment in African slave societies.
Beginning a book that will place the Seven Years’/French and Indian War into an
Atlantic context, examining the ways in which that war helped determine which empire
would control commerce on the Atlantic Ocean.
Completing a book tentatively entitled “The Doorways of Havana,” that examines the
cultural and historical space of the many doorways in the older section of the city of
Havana. The idea of this volume is to not only highlight the architectural beauty of the
colonial buildings in Old Havana, but to also use the doorway itself to frame culture in
the old city. Research and photography completed, February 2007.
Education
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Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2000
MA, George Mason University, 1996
BA, George Mason University, 1993
Courses Taught
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Colonial American History, The American Revolution and Early Republic, The Cultural
History of Alcohol in America, History of the Atlantic World, Slavery and Freedom in
the Americas, Jefferson’s America, History and the Internet, Latin American Studies,
History of Western Civilization through 1650, History of the United States to 1865,
History of the United States Since 1865
Books
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1492: Convergence of Cultures (writing; under contract, Harlan Davidson)
Atlantic Identities: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810. University of
Georgia Press, Fall 2007
History on the Web: Using and Evaluating the Internet. Harlan-Davidson, 2005
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 30. Assistant Editor. Princeton University Press,
2003
Refereed Articles and Chapters
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“Intersections of Loyalty and Identity on the Spanish Borderlands,” in Gene Smith, ed.
Nexus of Empire: Loyalty and National Identity in the Gulf Borderlands, 1763-1821
(forthcoming)
“William Dunbar,” and “The Kemper Rebellion” in the Mississippi Encyclopedia,
Charles Reagan Wilson, ed. (Forthcoming, University Press of Mississippi, 2007)
“Maintaining Loyalty in the West Florida Borderlands: Land as Cause and Effect in the
West Florida Revolution of 1810” in Richmond Brown, ed. Coastal Encounters:
Confrontations, Accommodations, and Transformations in the Eighteenth-Century Gulf
South (Forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2007)
“Civilization III and My Students’ Discontent” in The History Teacher 40:2 (Feb., 2007)
“Slavery in Ecclesiastical Archives: Preserving the Records” with Jane Landers, Paul
Lovejoy, and Mariza Soares, in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 86:2 (May,
2006) (currently being translated into Portuguese for publication in Brazil)
"The Kemper 'Rebellion,' Filibustering, and Resident Anglo-American Loyalty in
Spanish West Florida," in Louisiana History 43:2 (Spring, 2002)
"Thomas Jefferson and John Freeman" in Annotation, 29:2 (June, 2001)
"Inscribing Your Future: The Trials and Tribulations of Applying to Graduate School," in
Perspectives, 36:6 (September, 1998). With John A. King
"The Historian, the Internet, and the Web: A Reassessment," in Perspectives, 36:2
(February, 1998)
"Historians and the Web: A Beginner's Guide," in Perspectives, 34:1 (January, 1996)
With Michael O'Malley and Roy Rosenzweig
Recent Conference Papers/Invited Lectures
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“Constructing National Loyalty on the Borderlands: Americans in Spanish Territory,”
Association for Research in Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas, Seville, Spain,
July 2006
“Guerilla Preservation: Slave Serial Records in the Atlantic World: An NEH Project,”
The Allen Morris Conference on the History of Florida and the Atlantic World, Feb 2006
“Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora in Brazil and
Cuba,” Memory and Methodology: Workshop on the African Diaspora, Harriet Tubman
Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, York University, July 2005
“Land and the Development of National Loyalty on the Southern Borderlands,” VirginiaCarolinas-Georgia Colonialists Meeting, March 2004
“‘Lawyers as serious nuisances’: Maintaining Order and Identity on the Surrounded
Borderlands,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2004
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More than a dozen other papers at conferences such as the Ohio Valley History
Conference, the Howard Mahan Symposium on the Colonial Gulf South, Princeton
University Women's Center Lecture Series, the Omohundro Institute for Early American
History and Culture, the Southern Historical Association, the American Historical
Association, and the Tennessee Conference of Historians
Conference Activity
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Panel Chair and Commentator, “Anglo/Spanish Contests in the Eighteenth-Century
Circum-Caribbean,” Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, November 2004.
Panel Chair and Commentator, “Topics in Undergraduate Research and Teaching,” Ohio
Valley History Conference, October 2004
Panel Chair, "Slave Law and Society on the Eve of Emancipation." American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2003
Panel Chair and Commentator, "Labor, Health and Race Relations in Latin America and
the Caribbean." Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, November 2002
Commentator, "Slavery: Expansion and Interstate Trade in the Early Republic." Ohio
Valley History Conference, Austin Peay University, October 2002
Commentator, "American Indians North and South." Tennessee Conference of Historians
Annual Meeting, September 2000
Commentator, "Southern History Perspectives." Phi Alpha Theta Mid-South Regional
Conference, February 2000
Book, Manuscript, and Article Reviews
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More than a dozen book reviews in history journals such as the Journal of American
History, the Western Historical Quarterly, The Hispanic American Historical Review,
several state and regional journals, History: Reviews of New Books, and more than two
dozen book reviews for the local Bowling Green newspaper, the Daily News
Manuscript reviews for the Journal of Southern History, the Florida Historical Quarterly
Anonymous reviewing for several textbook publishers
Media Consultation
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Co-producer and co-host “Books from the Hill,” a radio show for WKYU-NPR, 2007
Ecclesiastical Sources and History for the African Diaspora in Cuba and Brazil (An NEH
Collaborative Research Project), 2004 – present
Assistant Producer for “The Week in History,” a pilot “interstitial” television program for
PBS. 2005-2006
Weekly History Trivia Contest for the Bowling Green Daily News, 2005
“This Day In History” (A segment I produced for WBKO (an ABC-TV affiliate)), 2004
Echo Project, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. 2000-2003
Web Consultant, Vanderbilt Oral History Project. Summer/Fall, 1999
Internet and Web Consultant for American Historical Association. September 1996-1998
Webmaster, American Historical Association. Full-time employment, 1995-1996
The History Channel-Test Bank Questions to Accompany Video Series "The Lincoln
Assassination," 1996
Grants and Fellowships
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Teaching American History (NEH), 2006-2008
Teaching American History (NEH), 2003-2006
Provost’s Initiative for Excellence, 2005-2006
WKU Summer Research Stipend for research in Havana, Cuba, Summer 2006
WKU Summer Research Stipend for research in Seville, Spain, Summer 2006
WKU Summer Research Stipend for research in London, Summer 2005
WKU Junior Faculty Fellowship for research in Havana, Summer 2004
University of Glasgow Early American Studies Fellowship, Summer, 2001
Vanderbilt Dissertation Enhancement Grant for research in Havana, Cuba, Summer 1999
William Campbel Binkley Graduate Education Fund Grant, Spring 1999
Herbert and Blanche Henry Weaver Fellowship, Spring 1999
Professional Activity—Service
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President, Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association, 2006
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2005
Director, History Contest, Western Kentucky University, 2002-Current
Co-Editor, H-Atlantic (H-Net mailing list for historians of the Atlantic World), 2001Current
Co-Editor, H-SHEAR (Society of Historians of the Early American Republic), 2004Current
Book Review Editor, H-Amstdy (H-Net mailing list for American Studies), 2002- 2005
H-Net Network Planning Committee, 2001-Current
H-Net International Committee, 2001-Current
Secretary/Treasurer, Latin American and Caribbean Section, SHA, 2002-2005
Program Committee Chair, Latin American and Caribbean Section, SHA, 2003
Co-Editor, H-SAWH (Southern Association for Women Historians), 2000-2003
Web Editor, H-Net, H-South website, 1998-2001
Executive Council, Latin American and Caribbean Section, SHA, 1998-1999
Steering Committee, Southern Conference of Latin American Historians, 1997-1998
Professional Organizations—Membership
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Organization of American Historians
Conference on Latin American History
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Southern Association for Women Historians (Life Member)
Southern Historical Association (Life Member)
Society of Historians of the Early American Republic
Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association