Darren Grem
Assistant Professor of History
Phone Number:
Email: degrem@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/2012/06/12/darren-e-grem/

Key Words: Religion, business, politics, and popular cultur, Southern Studies, Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Research Description: Darren E. Grem earned his B.A. from Furman University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and Emory University and joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in 2012 as an Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies. Dr. Grem’s research interests include religion, business, politics, and popular culture. He is the author of Corporate Revivals: A Business History of Born-Again America (under contract, Oxford University Press), a book that details how evangelicals and fundamentalists used business leaders, organizations, money, and strategies to advance their religious crusades and political aspirations in twentieth-century America. The dissertation on which his book is based won the Southern Historical Association’s C. Vann Woodward Prize for “best dissertation” and the University of Georgia’s Robert C. Anderson Award for “outstanding dissertation in the humanities.” To date, he has published articles examining the “Christian” business practices and activism of fast-food chain Chick-fil-A and the role of religious marketing at Heritage USA, a now-defunct theme park once run by televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. He has also published and given public talks on subjects ranging from southern music to contemporary politics to globalization. In the Department of History and at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Dr. Grem will offer courses on the U.S. South, American religious history, and modern politics and culture.

Honors Theses:

Regnery, Cameron N. (2020) Y'all Like Ike: Tennessee, the Solid South, and the 1952 Presidential Election (full text)

Holman, Jordan R. (2019) Silent Majorities: The Brief History of a Curious Term, 1920-1980 (full text)

Willcoxon, Samuel (2019) Highway 61: Good Roads, Great Migrations, and Delta Blues (full text)

Polk (III), Eugene Brinson (Tre) (2017) Please Accept My Love: Race, Culture, and B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail. (full text)

Garrott, Joel (2015) An American Prophet: Wendell Berry's Community Ethic, 1965-1977. (full text)

Abide, Abigail (2014) Big T-shirts and Running Shorts: A Female Uniform and Southern Womanhood on the Ole Miss Campus. (full text)