Vernon Jean Burton
Office: 433b Gregory Hall
Phone: (217) 333-0760
Email: vburton@ncsa.illinois.edu
Field of Study: History, American Social History, Family History, Community, Southern US History
PhD: Princeton University
Professor of History and Sociology; Professor and Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (heads the initiative for Humanities and Social Science projects)
Areas of specialization: race relations; American South; family and community history; politics, agrarian societies, religion, quantitative techniques, advanced information technologies
Current research interests: Civil War and Reconstruction; race and the law, especially Age of Segregation and Civil Rights Movement.
Publications:
- In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, S. C. (University of North Carolina Press, paperback edition, 1986)
- A Gentleman and an Officer": A Social and Military History of James B. Griffin's Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- "South Caroline", Chap. 7, pp. 191-232, 420-432 in The Quiet Revolution: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act in the South, 1965-1990. Edited by Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman. (Princeton University Press, 1994)