Arthur Braswell,

Arthur Braswell is a PhD candidate studying the history of American War and Society, African American history, Southern history, and U.S. Labor. His dissertation project, “Building the Forever Fort: Race and Militarization in South Carolina since 1917,” examines the wide world of Black and white civilian and military actors who became invested in anchoring military bases in the Jim Crow and Post-Jim Crow South. Their continual search for “permanence” for army installations came amid multiple economic downturns, social upheavals, a transformation in US foreign policy, and the haunting memories of a South without military bases. More particularly, Braswell is interested in the ways that wartime and postwar social movements developed visions of social change within, or at odds with, an increasingly militarized society. Broadly, he is interested in the unintended consequences of the United States’ ascendance to military supremacy in the twentieth century.

He has a B.A. in History and English from the University of South Carolina and worked for several years at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute.

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