Susannah Deily-Swearingen

Susan earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 2019. She is a member of the inaugural class of the American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellows and will be supporting the Rural Humanities’ Rural Black Lives Initiative for the 2020-2021 school year. She has been teaching at the collegiate level for 14 years including courses at Brown University, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Granite State College, and the Boston Architectural College. Susan’s forthcoming monograph, Rebel Rebels: Race, Resistance, and Remembrance in the “Free State of Winston,” is being published by the University Press of Kentucky as a part of their New Directions in Southern History series. Her current research focuses on the entangled history of the Cherokee Removal in the Southeast and the generations of mixed, Scots-Irish/ Cherokee descendants who became a neutral movement in parts of Alabama and Tennessee during the Civil War. The project further fractures the idea of the ideologically monolithic South and challenges basic assumptions about whiteness, inclusion, heritage, and allegiance. In addition to her academic scholarship, Susan has also written more than twenty editorials as a Huffington Post contributor.

Awards and Honors:

• First Runner Up in UNH Three Minute Thesis Competition (Competition for Excellence in Compelling Oral Presentation of Research in Under Three Minutes)
• 2016 STAF Fellowship (Recognition of Achievement in Teaching)
• 2014 Angelo Kontarinis History Fellowship (For Research and Travel)
• 2013 University of New Hampshire Travel Award (for Conference Presentation)
• 1998 Teaching Fellowship (Brown University)
• 1997 Summa Cum Laude, Highest Departmental Honors (Brandeis University)
• 1997 Brandeis University Scholar
• 1996 Truman Scholar Nominee (One of three selected from Brandeis University)
• 1995 Cunningham Prize for Writing Nominee (Brandeis University)

Teaching:

Instructor

• Early American History, Pre-Colombian-1865- University of New Hampshire (2016, 2017)
• The Kaepernick Effect: A Brief History of Protest in American Sport (2017)
• Building America: American History Through Architecture- University of New Hampshire (2016)
• Modern American History, 1865- Present- University of New Hampshire (2015, 2017)
• Early American History, Pre-Colombian-1865 (Online) – Granite State College (2014)
• American and Contemporary Architecture- Boston Architectural College (2008-2011)
• Architecture and Human Relations (Online)- Boston Architectural College (2009-2010)
• Introduction to Architectural Theory (Online)- Boston Architectural College (2010)
• Persuasive Communication and Public Speaking- Brown University (1998-2000)

Teaching Assistant

• Modern American History, 1865-Present- University of New Hampshire (2013)
• Western Civilization, Mesopotamia-1650- University of New Hampshire (2014)
• Western Civilization, 1650-Present- University of New Hampshire (2015)
• Architectural History, Neolithic- 1750- Boston Architectural College (2007- 2012)
• Architectural History, 1750- Present- Boston Architectural College (2011)
• Foundations of Urbanism- Boston Architectural College (2010)