Joseph Crespino

Joseph Crespino (born January 10, 1972) is a political historian of the 20th Century United States, specializing in the history of the American South and of modern conservatism. He is the author of two books and an edited collection and has been named a Top Young Historian by the History News Network at George Mason University.

Crespino was raised in Macon, Mississippi. His father, Bobby Crespino, played football at the University of Mississippi and then later in the NFL. Crespino attended The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1986 to 1990, and Northwestern University (1990–1994).

From 1994 to 1996, Crespino was a member of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, where he taught 11th-grade American history at Gentry High School in Indianola, Mississippi.

He earned his doctorate in American history from Stanford University in 2002 and in 2012 is a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta where he holds the Jimmy Carter Chair in American History. He received the Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Emory Center for Teaching and Curricular Excellence in 2009. His wife is Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Caroline Herring.

Crespino is the author of Strom Thurmond’s America (Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of the longtime U.S. Senator from South Carolina.), The book received positive reviews from Doris Kearns Goodwin and Publishers Weekly.

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