I am currently Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, where I teach modern U.S. history. My research examines the political and economic history of the twentieth century United States.

A graduate of Vanderbilt University, I received my M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Boston University. My first book, Dead as Dixie: The Southern States Industrial Council and the End of the New South, 1933-1964, currently under review, focuses on the role of southern industrialists in modernizing southern conservatism so that the region could play an influential role in shaping the New Right in the 1950s and 1960s. A chapter from the original dissertation appears in Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican (New Perspectives on the History of the South)(2011), Glenn Feldman, ed. I have published reviews in The Southern Historian and American Studies Journal and presented papers at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Policy History Conference, Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Southern Industrialization Project (now OSSECS) Annual Conference, Southern Historians in New England Annual Meeting, the College Board of New England, and the American Political History Institute‘s Seminar Series.

Contact me by email at kjewell1 @ fitchburgstate . edu.

I also like to run. Races completed so far…

Monson Memorial Classic Half-Marathon 2010 (2:35:08)

Boston Run to Remember 2011 (2:35:02)

Monson Memorial Classic Half-Marathon 2011 (2:27:41):

Plus some 5ks here and there