Faculty Advisor

History

Brian Daugherity's research focuses on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in Virginia. He teaches courses on the History of the Civil Rights Movement, the History of Virginia, and the History of the United States since 1865. Professor Daugherity also has taught a number of traveling courses, including a class on the civil rights movement in the South, and another on the history of Virginia via a month-long boating trip down the James River. He has delivered presentations at numerous conferences, including those sponsored by the Organization of American Historians, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, History of Education Society, Oral History Association, Southern Historical Association, and the Virginia Forum. He has received grants to fund his research and projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of Congress, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities [now Virginia Humanities], Virginia Historical Society, Duke University, and the College of William & Mary, among others. He is currently co-writing a book and co-producing a documentary film, with Dr. Jody L. Allen, on the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Charles C. Green v. New Kent County, Virginia.

Links

• Brian Daugherty named recipient of Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s William M.E. Rachal Award
• History professor’s grant will bring teachers to VCU to learn about school desegregation
• Footprints on the James