Elizabeth B. Ladner
Graduate Student (ABD)
Fields & Specialties
U.S. South; Immigration, LaborM. A. History, University of Virginia 2006
B. A. History, Duke University 2005
B. A. History, Duke University 2005
EDUCATION
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
B.A. History (United States), May 2005
Senior Honors Thesis: "I am trying to do the best I can but I intend to get out": Ambivalence towards the Confederate Cause Among German-Americans in the Shenandoah Valle
Advisor: Gunther Peck
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Masters of Arts, American History, August 2006
Thesis: Pacifists, Unionists, and Secessionists: Visions of Loyalty Among the "Natural Union" People of Rockingham and Augusta Counties
Advisor: Edward L. Ayers
Ph.D. Candidate in American History (South), Expected 2012
Passed comprehensive examinations, March 2008
Major Field: U.S Southern History
Minor Field: Latin American History
Proposed Dissertation: Planting Their Economic Future: Elite Southerners' Attempts to Enact Dual-Immigration Visions in Light of Abolition, 1855 – 1898
Advisor: Grace Hale
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Florence and Horatio Farmer Fellow in Digital Collections, University of Virginia Law Library, May 2010 -
South Atlantic Public Humanities Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, February 2010 – May 2010
Southern History Fellowship, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2005 – 2008
Honorable Mention, Bi-Annual Book Collecting Contest, Bibliographical Society of Virginia, University of Virginia, 2006
PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
"Planning their Future, Southerners Eye Caribbean Labor Schemes," Presented at the South Atlantic Studies Forum, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 2010
"In Search of Controllable Labor: Elite White Southerners’ Visions of Immigrant Labor and the Rise of Jim Crow," Presented at the Southern Historical Association annual meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2009
Mississippi Encyclopedia, "Amos Lovering" and "Germans in Mississippi" entries (forthcoming, University Press of Mississippi)
DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS
Project Manager, Frank S. Tavenner, Jr. Tokyo War Crimes Trial Papers, University of Virginia Law Library, 2010 - ; (website in progress)
Associate Editor, “Digital History Blog,” Essays in History Journal, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2011 - ; http://www.essaysinhistory.com/
Project Manager & Web Designer, Roger B. Taney Papers, University of Virginia Law Library, 2010; http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Special_Collections/TaneyWebsite/index.php
Project Manager, The Countryside Transformed, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia, August 2006 - December 2009; http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Special_Collections/TaneyWebsite/index.php
Contributor, Valley of the Shadow Project, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia, December 2005 - June 2006; http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Virginia, Instructor, Fall 2009
Immigration and Labor in the New South (New Course)
University of Virginia, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2007 – Spring 2009
United States Intelligence in the 20th Century, Spring 2007 (3 sections)
United States in Latin America 20th Century, Fall 2007 (3 sections)
20th Century United States South, Spring 2008 (3 sections)
Revolutions in 20th Century Latin America, Fall 2008 (3 sections)
United States Intelligence in the 20th Century, Spring 2009 (3 sections)
RELEVANT SKILLS
Computer Programs: Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, ContentDM, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Filemaker Pro, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Capture One, Microsoft Expression Media, Notetab Pro, oXygen.
Computer Languages, Basic: HTML, PHP, XML
Library Standards: Dublin Core, EAD, MARC, MODS
Foreign Languages: Spanish (Proficient), French (Basic)
ACTIVITIES
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Student Council, University of Virginia
President, Fall 2010 – Spring 2011
Second Vice-President, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Initiatives Committee Chair, Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
History Representative, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
The Virginia Social Science Journal
Referee, Fall 2010
Southern History Seminar
Co-Director, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007
Graduate History Student Association
Vice-President, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007
MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
Southern Historical Association
Labor and Working Class History Association
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Updated November 2011
