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Lorri Glover

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Field Specialties

Early America, Family, South

Lorri Glover is an early Americanist, specializing in southern and family history. Her first book, All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry explored the kinship patterns and cultural values of eighteenth-century southern elites.  Professor Glover’s newest book, Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation, investigates the formation of a distinctive southern masculine identity in the early national era. She teaches undergraduate courses on colonial America and the American Revolution and graduate seminars in Early American history.

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1996
  • M.A. Clemson University, 1992

Selected Publications

  • Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

  • "An Education in Southern Masculinity: The Balls of South Carolina in the New Republic," The Journal of Southern History, February 2003.

  • All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Cunningham Award, Outstanding Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences, 2006
  • Angie Warren Perkins Award, for excellence in teaching and scholarship, 2002
  • David V. and Kathryn G. White Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2001
  • College of Arts and Sciences, Public Service Faculty Award, 2001
Lorri Glover

Contact Information

Lorri Glover
Associate Professor of History
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065

Office: (865) 974-9868
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: lglover@utk.edu