Peggy
G. Hargis
Professor
of Sociology
Department Chair
har_agga@georgiasouthern.edu
Office: Carroll 1003B,
1013A
Phone: (912) 478-5621, 478-5426
M.A., University of Alaska Anchorage, 1979
B.A., University of Alaska Anchorage, 1978
Professor
Hargis’s research is motivated by questions about the past and the
impact of history on the present. She publishes widely and is one of the
few scholars who span disciplines. Her work has appeared in the American
Sociological Review, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Historical
Methods and the Journal of Southern History. Support for her research
has come from such diverse entities as the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Economic History Association,
and the American Sociological Associatio.
Her research investigates the historical underpinnings of persistent racial
inequality in America, especially that which is tied to land ownership.
Current projects include a number of articles and a future book project
entitled, “After the Whip: The Rise and Fall of the Black Yeomanry.”
Recently she has been using a set of sources known collectively as the
Southern Claims Commission Records to map black/white community relations,
reconstruct information networks, expose hierarchies of power within the
black community, explore local lifestyles, and to compare the documentary
evidence of slaves’ lives to the material evidence uncovered in
archeological excavations of Lowcountry plantations. She is tracing a
group of former slaves in Liberty County, Georgia from their existence
as property to becoming property owners and more specially, land owners.
Department
of Sociology and Anthropology, Georgia Southern University
Last updated July 10, 2008
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