Lecturer
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2003
phone: 404-413-6350
email: lgrubbs@gsu.edu
Dr. Grubbs studies American culture and international history. He is the author of Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010), a volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War. The book explores a period of intense American interest in “Africa” as an object of scholarship, diplomacy and economic development aid. His articles include “’Workshop of a Continent’: American Representations of Whiteness and Modernity in 1960s South Africa,” Diplomatic History 32:3 (June 2008), and “Bringing ‘The Gospel of Modernization’ to Nigeria: American Nation Builders and Development Planning in the 1960s,” Peace and Change 31:3 (Summer 2006). Currently, he is working on sensory history (the role of the five senses in social and cultural perception) and U.S. Cold War culture.
Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010).
“'Workshop of a Continent’: American Representations of Whiteness and Modernity in 1960s South Africa,” Diplomatic History 32:3 (June 2008).
“Bringing ‘The Gospel of Modernization’ to Nigeria: American Nation Builders and Development Planning in the 1960s,” Peace and Change 31:3 (Summer 2006).
Franklin Teaching Fellowship, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2004-2007.
Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Foundation, Austin, Texas, 2004.
Kennedy Research Grant, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004.
