John Giggie

John Giggie

John Giggie is an associate professor of history and Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South at the University of Alabama. His research interests include Southern history, civil rights, African American history, and American religion. He is the author of Bloody Tuesday: Civil Rights History and Violence in Tuscaloosa (manuscript in progress); Watershed: A Thematic Approach to American History (McGraw Hill, 2019, 2022); and After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 (Oxford, 2008). Hi is also coeditor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture (Rutgers, 2002) and Dixie’s Great War: World War I and the American South (Alabama: 2020). Giggie has won multiple awards and honors for teaching, as well as research grants and prizes, and is a regular commentator on local and national media.