Research Interests & Bio
News Media History, Public and Intellectual History, Military and Labor History, Biography, and Charlotte’s Local History.
Before joining the Department of History at UNC-Charlotte, I spent a year as an Assistant Professor of History at The Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina, and several years as Staff Historian at The Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte.
Courses Taught
- HIST 1161 Survey of US History Since 1865
- HIST 2050 News Media and the Making of US History Since 1865
- HIST 6300 Oral History Theory and Practice
- HIST 6310 Museum Studies
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
CONTACT
Office: Garinger 238
Email: wgriffi1@charlotte.edu