• Don H. Doyle
  McCausland Professor Of History
  Director, ARENA, Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas
  University of South Carolina
  245 Gambrell Hall
  Columbia, SC 29208
  803.777.6068/office
  803.727.6561/cell
  E-MAIL: don.doyle@sc.ed
  
  Education:
  Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1973
  B.A., University of California, Davis, 1967
  Newberry Library Summer Institute, Family and Community History, 1975
  Università degli studi di Urbino, Italian language and culture course, summer 1997
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Portuguese language course, 2003

Foreign Languages:

Italian    Reading and speaking, good

Portuguese    Reading good; Speaking fair

Spanish    Reading good; Speaking fair

 

Employment:

• University of South Carolina, McCausland Professor of History, 2004-
• Vanderbilt University, Assistant, 1974-79; Associate, 1979-86; Full Professor, 1986-2000; Nelson Tyrone, Jr., Professor of History, 2000-2004
• Fulbright Chair in American History, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Visiting Professor of History, School of History, University of Leeds, England, 1997-98
• Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Genoa, Italy, 1995
• Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Rome, Italy, 1991
• University of Michigan-Dearborn, Lecturer 1971-73; Assistant Professor, 1973-74

 Books:

• The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70, University of Illinois Press, 1978; paperback edition, 1982; reprinted, 1999
• Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930, University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
• Nashville Since the 1920s, University of Tennessee Press, 1985
• New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910, University of North Carolina Press, 1990, paperback and cloth editions
• The South as an American Problem, co-edited with Larry J. Griffin, University of Georgia Press, 1995, paperback edition 1996
• Faulkner’s County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, University of North Carolina Press, 2001, paperback and cloth editions.
• Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question, University of Georgia Press, 2002.
• Nationalism in the New World, co-edited with Marco Pamplona, University of Georgia Press 2006 and Editora Record, Brazil (Portuguese edition) 2007.

Current Projects:

• The Cause of All Mankind: The Foundations of America’s National Creed, 1776-1876 (working title)
• Secession as an International Phenomenon, an interdisciplinary conference and book of essays by leading scholars of secession and separatism
• "Garibaldi’s Question," an essay on the role of foreign relations during the American Civil War.  

Selected Fellowships and Grants:

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, “Secession as an International Phenomenon,” 2007-2008
• Watson-Brown Foundation, grant for authors’ workshop on “Secession as an International Phenomenon.”
• University of South Carolina Research Foundation, Research and Productive Scholarship Program Grant, 2006-7.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Director, Summer Seminar for College and University Professors, “Faulkner and Southern History,” 2005.
• Fulbright Chair in American History, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2004.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, “Faulkner and Southern History,” 2003.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, for Conference on Nationalism in the New World,” October, 2003.
• Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, January, 2002, conference on “The National Idea: Italy and America in the Age of Nationalism.”
• Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Spring 2000
• Visiting Research Scholar, American Academy in Rome, spring 2000
• Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, fall, 1999.
• Italian Fulbright Commission, conference grant, "The Southern Question: Nationalism and Regionalism in Italy and the United States," Naples, Italy, June, 1997, with Francesco Benigno, IMES, Rome.
• Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Genoa, Italy, 1995
• Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Rome, 1991
• Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History Fellow, Harvard University, 1982-83
• American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellow, 1982-83
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Division, State and Local History Program Grant, 1980-84