About our staff
Dr Mark Newman
BA, MA, PhD, FRHistS, FHEA
Reader
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3759
- Email: m.newman@ed.ac.uk
- Room 03.17, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Office hours
Monday and Thursday 2-3pm (on Teams)
Research day: Friday
Roles
- Personal Tutor
Biography
I received my PhD from the University of Mississippi and am a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. My first book, Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995, won the Lillian Smith Book Award for nonfiction from the Southern Regional Council, the American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American Studies, and the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize from the University of Alabama Press. My article "The Catholic Church in Mississippi and Desegregation, 1963 - 1973", won the Willie D Halsell Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society and the article "Toward 'Blessings of Liberty and Justice': The Catholic Church in North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945-1974," received the R. D. W. Connor Award of the Historical Society of North Carolina.
External appointments
I serve on the Editorial Board of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and on the Edinburgh University Press Committee.
Summary of research interests
Places:- North America
- Religion
- Society
- Twentieth Century & After
Research interests
Twentieth century United States: African American history, the civil rights movement, and religion and race relations in the US South.
Research projects
Louisiana Catholics and Desegregation, 1945-1976
Undergraduate teaching
- The American South since the Civil War (Option)
- Black Nationalism in America (Option)
- The American Civil Rights Movement (Senior Hons)
- History in Practice (Hons)
- Historical Skills and Methods I (Hons)
- Historical Skills and Methods II (Hons)
Postgraduate teaching
- Themes in American Historiography (Postgraduate)
- The Civil Rights Movement (Postgraduate - Option)
Past Students:
| Name | Degree | Thesis topic | Supervision type | Completion year | Link |
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| Batho, Nick | PhD | Black, Black, Beautiful Black: The Educational Use of African American Children's Literature in New York City, 1965-1979 | Co-Supervisor | 2020 | |
| Thomas, Amber | PhD | "God Has a Plan for Your Life": Personalized Life Providence (PLP) in Postwar American Evangelism | Secondary | 2018 | |
| Brown, Christopher | MScR | Primary | 2006 | ||
| Burns, Adam | MScR | An Imperial Vision: William Howard Taft and the Philippines, 1900-1921 | Primary | 2006 |
Currently accepting research student applications : Yes
Areas accepting Research Students in:
The Civil Rights Movement, black nationalism, African American history and the history of the twentieth-century US South.
Publications
Books
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Mark Newman, Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018). |
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Mark Newman, Black Nationalism in American History: From the Nineteenth Century to the Million Man March (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). |
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Mark Newman, The Civil Rights Movement (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004). |
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Mark Newman, Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004). |
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Mark Newman, Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2001). |
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Edited books
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Mark Newman, Co-editor with Suzanne W Jones, Poverty and Progress in the US South since 1920 (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006).
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Articles, book chapters and other publications
Mark Newman, "The Marching Priest: The Civil Rights and Labor Activism of Father Sherrill Smith during the 1950s and 1960s", Southwestern Historical Quarterly 124, no. 3 (January 2021): 300-24.
Mark Newman, “The Catholic Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham and Parochial School Desegregation, 1962-1969”, Alabama Review 74, no. 1 (January 2021): 24-61.
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Church in the Diocese of Galveston-Houston and Desegregation, 1945-1984", Southwestern Historical Quarterly 124, no. 1 (July 2020): 16-48.
Mark Newman, "The Diocese of Savannah and Desegregation, 1935-73", Catholic Historical Review 106, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 282-311.
Mark Newman, "Catholics and the Meredith March in Mississippi", Journal of Mississippi History 80, no. 4 (Fall-Winter 2018): 85-117.
Mark Newman, "The Civil Rights Movement", in Gene Jarrett (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Church and the Selma Protests of March 1965", in Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Clara Juncker, and David E. Nye (eds.), Southern Exposure: Essays Presented to Jan Nordby Gretlund (Odense: The Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, 2017), 105-17.
Mark Newman, "Delta Ministry", in Ted Ownby, Charles R. Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey and James G. Thomas (eds.), The Mississippi Encyclopedia (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017).
Mark Newman, "Freedom City", in Ted Ownby, Charles R. Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey and James G. Thomas (eds.), The Mississippi Encyclopedia (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017).
Mark Newman, "Religion and Civil Rights", in Ted Ownby, Charles R. Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey and James G. Thomas (eds.), The Mississippi Encyclopedia (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017).
Mark Newman, "The Arkansas Religious Community’s Response to Desegregation", Digital Exhibition, "Confronting the Crisis: The Legacy of Little Rock Central High School", August 2017.
Mark Newman, "Progressive White Catholics in the South and Civil Rights, 1945-1970", in Constante Gonzalez Groba (ed.), Unsteadily Marching On: The U.S. in Motion (Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, 2013), 135-43.
Mark Newman, "Civil Rights Movement", The Literary Encyclopedia. Online. First published 20 December 2011.
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Diocese of Alexandria and Desegregation, 1946-1973", Louisiana History 52 (Summer 2011): 261-99.
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Diocese of Miami and African American Desegregation, 1958-1977", Florida Historical Quarterly 90 (Summer 2011): 61-84.
Mark Newman, "Desegregation of the Catholic Diocese of Charleston, 1950-1974", South Carolina Historical Magazine 112 (January-April 2011): 26-49.
Mark Newman,"Campaigns stretch back many years: the achieved Civil Rights Act, 1964, reduced but did not eliminate discrimination", New Perspective 15 (March 2010): 10-14
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Church and Desegregation in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1961 - 1976," Louisana History 51 (2010): 306-32.
Mark Newman, "Desegregation in the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, 1945 - 1973", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 117 (2009): 356-87.
Mark Newman, "Owen Herman Brooks". In African American National Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr, Evelyn Higginbotham (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Mark Newman, "Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer". In African American National Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr, Evelyn Higginbotham (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Mark Newman, "Hazel Brannon Smith: Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist," Mississippi History Now (2008) online
Mark Newman, "'Toward Blessings of Liberty and Justice': The Catholic Church and Desegregation in North Carolina, 1945-1974", North Carolina Historical Review 85 (July 2008): 317-51.
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Church in Arkansas and Desegregation, 1946-1988", Arkansas Historical Quarterly 66 (Autumn 2007): 293-319.
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Church in Tennessee and Desegregation, 1954-1973", Tennessee Historical Quarterly 66 (Summer 2007): 144 -65.
Mark Newman, "The Mississippi Freedom Labor Union". In Poverty and Progress in the US South since 1920, eds Suzanne W Jones and Mark Newman (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006), 133-42.
Mark Newman, "The Catholic Church in Mississippi and Desegregation, 1963-1973", Journal of Mississippi History 67 (Winter 2005): 331-55.
Mark Newman, "Civil Rights and Human Rights", Reviews in American History 32, no. 2 (June 2004): 246-54.
Mark Newman, "Journalist under Siege: The Life of Hazel Brannon Smith," in Martha H. Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne and Marjorie Julian Spruill (eds.), Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Athens and London, 2003), 220-34.
Mark Newman, "The Louisiana Baptist Convention and Desegregation, 1954-1980", Louisiana History 42 (Fall 2001): 389-418.
Mark Newman, "White Minority Culture in the Southern States of the USA: the Southern Baptist Example", in Robert Hudson and Fred Réno (eds.), The Politics of Identity: Migrants and Minorities in Multicultural States (Basingstoke, 2000), 83-111.
Mark Newman, "The Georgia Baptist Convention and Desegregation, 1945-1980", Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (Winter 1999): 683-711.
Mark Newman, "The Florida Baptist Convention and Desegregation, 1954-1980", Florida Historical Quarterly 78, no. 1 (Summer 1999): 1-22.
Mark Newman, "The Alabama Baptist State Convention and Desegregation, 1954-1980", Alabama Baptist Historian 35, no.2 (July 1999): 3-40.
Mark Newman, "The Baptist State Convention of South Carolina and Desegregation, 1954-1971", Baptist History and Heritage 34, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 56-72.
Mark Newman, "The Tennessee Baptist Convention and Desegregation, 1954-1980", Tennessee Historical Quarterly 57, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 236-57.
Mark Newman, ‘The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945-1980’, North Carolina Historical Review 75, no.1 (January 1998): 1-28.
Mark Newman, "Protestantism: Denominational Histories", in Peter J. Parish (ed.), Reader's Guide to American History (Cambridge: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997).
Mark Newman, "The Arkansas Baptist State Convention and Desegregation, 1954-1968", Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 294-313.
Mark Newman, "The Baptist General Association of Virginia and Desegregation, 1931-1980", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 105, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 257-86.
Mark Newman, "The Mississippi Baptist Convention and Desegregation, 1945-1980", Journal of Mississippi History 59, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 1-31.
Mark Newman, "Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1980", in Tony Badger, Walter Edgar and J. Norby Gretland (eds.), Southern Landscapes, Transatlantic Perspectives 7 (Tübingen: Staffenburg Verlag, 1996), 182-203.
Mark Newman, "Southern Baptists and the Civil Rights Movement in recent historical literature", Over here 14, no. 2 (Winter 1994): 61-69.
Mark Newman, "Hazel Brannon Smith and Holmes County, Mississippi, 1936-1964: The Making of a Pulitzer Prize Winner", Journal of Mississippi History 54, no. 1 (February 1992): 59-87.