Christian K. Anderson, Ph.D.
Connect:
  • Richard T. Greener
    • Greener Lecture
  • College Football History
  • Teaching
    • History of Higher Education in America (EDHE 730)
    • History of UofSC
    • OAG
    • Higher Education in Popular Culture
    • HESA Study Abroad
  • Recent Work
  • African American Experience at UofSC
  • Higher Education and the 1918 Pandemic
  • Title IX at USC

Recent Works


In the News

  • USC president’s investiture represents changes on campus after years of turmoil. Post & Courier. January 20, 2023.
  • Wisconsin Has a New Chancellor. GOP Lawmakers Aren’t Happy. The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 17, 2022. 
  • U. of South Carolina Wants to Rename Buildings. State Politics Will Stop It. The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 16, 2021.
  • Here are six tasks USC’s next president needs to accomplish at the university. The State. June 22, 2021.
  • Presidential Commission on University History advises President Caslen on building name changes, university history. The Daily Gamecock. April 19, 2021. 
  • Letter to the editor: The purpose of tenure isn’t to protect abusers. The Daily Gamecock. April 18, 2021.  
  • Interview on WLTX about Richard T. Greener for Black History Month. February 11, 2021.
  • How history textbooks will deal with the US Capitol attack. The Conversation. January 25, 2021.
  • Briga na Carolina do Sul por estátua de Pantera Negra evidencia onda contra símbolos confederados [South Carolina fight over Black Panther statue highlights wave against Confederate symbols]. Folha de S.Paulo. September 23, 2020.​
  • I was interviewed as part of a 12-hour "Give Black Podcast-a-Thon" hosted by the UofSC student body Vice President Hannah White (I'm at the 3 hr 28 min. mark). August 28, 2020.
  • Confederate Memorials and Who Should Replace Them (on-air interview) 8 O'Clock Buzz, WORT Radio (89.9 FM), Madison, WI - August 17, 2020.
  • University of South Carolina Trustees Vote for Governor’s Pick for President. The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 19, 2019.
  • Op-ed: USC’s presidential finalists reflect those in power in SC. The State. April 26, 2019. 
  • Amazon Mania Revealed These 3 Things About Higher Ed. The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 5, 2018.
  • From Indiana Jones to Minerva McGonagall, Professors See Themselves in Fiction. The Chronicle of Higher Education. June 9, 2017.
  • The Campus Buildings Name Game: Unfinished Business. Inside Higher Education. February 27, 2017.

Recent Essays

  • The forgotten impact of Harvard’s first Black graduate - Essay in the Washington Post's "Made by History" series
  • Funding Higher Education for the Public Good, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. With David A. Tandberg. October 2020.
  • What should replace Confederate statues? The Conversation. August 13, 2020 
  • Authorities are yanking the legacy of slaveholder John C. Calhoun from public sphere, but his bigotry remains embedded in American society. The Conversation. June 26, 2020.
  • COVID-19 Crisis Reveals Overdue Need for New Way to Fund Higher Education. With David Tandberg in Medium. June 25, 2020.

Recent Publications

  • The History of UofSC's Gibbes Green. A project of my course on the History of Higher Education and Dr. Lydia Brandt's course on the History of American Architecture (Spring 2022).
  • ​Anderson, Christian K. (2021). “The South Carolina Military Academy During the Civil War: Training Ground for the Confederacy.” In R. Eric Platt and Holly Foster (Eds.), Persistence Through Peril: Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi.
  • Anderson, Christian K. and Jason Darby (2021). “Richard T. Greener at the Reconstruction-era University: Professor, Librarian, and Student.” In Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry (Eds.), Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
  • Schoeman, F.K. and Christian K. Anderson (2021). “Funny Professors, Serious Lessons: An Analysis of the Image of Jews as Academics in Film.” Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal.
  • Anderson, Christian K. and Amber C. Fallucca (Eds.). (2021). The History of American College Football: Institutional Policy, Culture, and Reform. New York: Routledge. 
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