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Justin Behrend

Professor

Doty Hall 207

(585)245-5587

behrend@geneseo.edu

Professor Behrend is a scholar of the Reconstruction era.

Dr. Justin Behrend, professor of history and graduate program director, has been a member of the 91亚色 faculty since 2007. His research interests include nineteenth-century U.S. history, African American history, Atlantic World slavery, and Southern history. Dr. Behrend is the author of Reconstructing Democracy: Black Grassroots Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War聽and articles on slave rebellions, emancipation, and Reconstruction. He was the department chair from 2017 to 2022. He is currently the James & Julia Lockhart Endowed Professor.

Justin Behrend

Office Hours

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. in History, Northwestern University

Publications

(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015)

Abolitionism and the Struggle Against Slavery in Livingston County,鈥 Livingston County Historical Review 13 (Fall 2025): 3-15.

鈥淲hen Neighbors Turn against Neighbors: Irregular Warfare and the Crisis of Democracy in the Civil War Era,鈥 in Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation, ed. David W. Blight and James Downs (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017), 90-103.

鈥淔acts, Memories, and History: John R. Lynch and the Memory of Reconstruction in the Age of Jim Crow鈥 in Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles Over the Meaning of America鈥檚 Most Turbulent Era, edited by Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017), 84-108.

鈥淔ear of Reenslavement: Black Political Mobilization in Response to the Waning of Reconstruction鈥 in Rethinking American Emancipation: Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom, edited by William A. Link and James J. Broomall (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 146-163.

鈥淏lack Political Mobilization and the Spatial Transformation of Natchez鈥 in Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil Era, edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers (University of Chicago Press, 2015), 190-214.

鈥淔acts and Memories: John R. Lynch and the Revising of Reconstruction History in the Era of Jim Crow,鈥 Journal of African American History 97, no. 4 (Fall 2012): 427-448.

New York Times, September 15, 2011.

鈥淩ebellious Talk and Conspiratorial Plots: The Making of a Slave Insurrection in Civil War Natchez,鈥 Journal of Southern History 77, no. 1 (February 2011): 17-52.

More About Me

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth Century U.S.
  • African American
  • Civil War and Emancipation

Awards and Honors

  • James & Julia Lockhart Endowed Professor, 2024-2027
  • McLemore Prize for best book in Mississippi History, 2016
  • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013

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