Jonathan Hepworth

Lecturer

Contact
Department of History
Office: Hardin Hall 023
Email: jhepwor@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D. in progress, University of Georgia (2024); MA, Clemson University (2012); BA, University of Utah (2008)

Research Interests
U.S. History; U.S. History 1877-1920; Religion; Historiography/Historical Theory and Method; Memory Studies; Capitalism

Jonathan D. Hepworth received training in history at the University of Utah, Clemson University, and the University of Georgia, where he is finishing a dissertation on the growth of Latter-day Saint congregations in the late nineteenth-century American South. He has previously worked for the New Georgia Encyclopedia. Currently he is also working on reconstructing what the telegraph network of the nineteenth-century southern states looked like and how easy access to communication and transportation influenced availability of credit in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among his other interests are how historical memory changes people's perception of the past and the need for everyday citizens to learn historical thinking skills to understand the past and present.

Selected Professional Works

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

with Susana Ashton "Jackson Unchained: Reclaiming a Fugitive Landscape," The Appendix 1 No. 4 (October 2013)

Conference Presentations (Delivered)

“Why Are You Here When We Already Have the Bible?: The Latter-day Saint Southern Surge of the 1890s,” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, 2020 Annual Meeting in Athens, Georgia

“[Your History Here]: The Rogers Company and the Standardization of Local Histories,” Georgia Association of Historians, 2014 Annual Meeting in Athens, Georgia

With Orville Vernon Burton, Clemson University: “Making Census of It: Internal Migration in the Recent South,” Social Science History Association, 2013 Annual Conference in Chicago