Roberts, Charles

Dr. Charles Roberts joined the Huntingdon College faculty in 2024 as Assistant Professor of History. He previously worked at Andrew College and Perimeter College. Dr. Roberts is currently focused on a research project about Alabama politics in the twentieth century.

Publications:

• “W. J. Cash and the Historiography of Southern White Class Consciousness,” Journal of the Georgia Philological Association  10 (2021-22): 59-73.
•  “Wallace Roundtable: Institutions, Liberalism, and Civil Rights: The Defeat of Carl Elliott and the Legacy of George Wallace.” Alabama Review  72.3 (July, 2019): 191-200.
• The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South  (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2015).
•  “Client Failures and Supervised Credit in the Farm Security Administration,” Agricultural History  87.3 (Summer, 2013): 368-90.
•  “New Deal Community-Building in the South: The Subsistence Homesteads around Birmingham, Alabama,” The Alabama Review  66.2 (April, 2013): 83-121.
•  With Juan Walker, “Fitting Educational Methods to Marginalized Students: A Historical Consideration,” GATEways to Teacher Education  13.1 (2012-2013): 24-30.
•  “Race, Wallace, and the 9-8 Plan: The Defeat of Carl Elliott,” The Alabama Review 62.2 (April 2009): 113-44.

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships:

• Vulcan Teaching Award, Andrew College, 2020
• Exemplary Teacher of the Year, Andrew College, 2018
• Governor’s Teaching Fellow, Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia, 2017
• Milo Howard Award for Most Outstanding Article Published in the Alabama Review , 2012-2013
• Graduate Council Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alabama, 2010-2011
• Gary Barnard Mills Endowed Dissertation Support Fund, University of Alabama, 2010
• History Department Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alabama, 2009-2010
• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America History Outstanding Essay, 2006
• Graduate Council Fellowship, University of Alabama, 2004-05