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Julie Anne Sweet

Professor of History & Director of Military Studies

Julie Ann Sweet

Military Studies Minor - find out more about the MILS program!

Spring 2023 Office Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 – 4:00 pm and by appointment

Areas of Specialization

Colonial & Revolutionary America, US Military History before 1900

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Kentucky

  • M.A., University of Richmond

  • B.A., University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude, History and Theatre

Regular Course Offerings

Undergrad:

  • HIS 1365 History of the United States to 1877
  • HIS 4362 American Colonial History
  • HIS 4363 American Revolution & Constitution
  • HIS 4393 American Military History to 1890

Other Courses Taught

Undergrad:

  • HIS 3384 History of Indigenous Peoples of America
  • HIS 4340: Boston Massacre Trials (Spring 2020)

Work with Students

Undergraduate Research and Theses

Selected Publications

Books

  • William Stephens: Georgia’s Forgotten Founder (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010)
  • Negotiating for Georgia: British-Indian Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733-1752 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005)

Recent Articles

  • “Raising Flags, Firing Guns, and Drinking Toasts: Celebrating Holidays in Colonial Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 106 (Summer 2022): 248-272.
  • “Making History Come Alive: The Boston Massacre Trials.” The History Teacher, 54 (May 2021): 509-538.
  • “Savannah’s Out-Villages of Thunderbolt and Skidaway: Microcosms of the Colonial Georgia Story.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 105 (Spring 2021): 1-25.
  • “‘Confin’d as a Lunatick’: The Case of Joseph Watson.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 103 (Winter 2019): 270-312.
  • “‘your most Dutiful[,] truly Obliged & most Humble Servant’: John Dobell and the Challenges of Navigating Early Georgia Politics.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 103 (Spring 2019): 1-29.
  • “‘a very extraordinary Kind of Creature’: Conflicting Contemporary Perspectives on Christian Priber.” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 118 (January 2019): 60-80.
  • “John Penrose: A Success Story in Early Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 102 (Spring 2018): 1-23.

 

Selected Professional Awards/Activities/Grants and/or Fellowships

Recent Awards

  • Elizabeth Vardaman Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates, April 2022.
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, tenured teaching, May 2021.
  • Robert Reid Award for Undergraduate Teaching, May 2021.
  • Women in American History Medal, Daughters of the American Revolution, March 2021.

Recent Grants

  • Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Grant, Summer 2021.
  • University Teaching Development Grant, Summer 2021.

C-SPAN “Lectures on History” Presentation:

  • “American Military in the Revolutionary War,” Spring 2019.
Julie Ann Sweet
Julie_sweet@baylor.edu

Tidwell 104.16

254-710-6303

1 Bear Place #97306 Waco, TX 76798

Department of History

Department of History
One Bear Place #97306
Waco, TX 76798

(254) 710-2667
history_department@baylor.edu
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