Carter is the author of “The Williamston Freedom Movement: Civil Rights at the Grass Roots in Eastern North Carolina, 1957-1964,” an article in the North Carolina Historical Review (January, 1999), which won the Robert Diggs Wimberly Connor Award given by the Review for the best article published in that journal in the preceding year. His biographical sketches of civil rights leaders Andrew Young and Julian Bond appear in the two-volume reference collection Civil Rights in the United States, edited by Waldo Martin and Patricia Sullivan (Macmillan, 2000). More recently he has written the foreword to Frye Gaillard’s Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy (University of Georgia Press, 2007) and contributed an essay entitled “Romper Lobbies and Coloring Lessons: Grassroots Visions and Political Realities in the Battle for Head Start in Mississippi, 1965-1967” to the collection Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War, edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Barton C. Shaw (University Press of Florida, 2007).

Carter’s book manuscript, The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968 will appear shortly from the University of North Carolina Press, and examines shifting relationships between the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement in the three years following passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Dr. Carter is also involved in collaborative research and writing on Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights policies with Kent Germany of the University of South Carolina (formerly of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia).

Dr. Carter has served as a project consultant on civil rights history for the Persistent Issues in History Network, directed by John Saye of Auburn’s College of Education and Tom Brush of Indiana University, which seeks to build a community of master teachers overseeing pre-collegiate history study. In the same vein, he has worked with Auburn and Opelika teachers as part of a Teaching American History grant program.

Carter received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2001 and a B.A. with Highest Honors in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. Before assuming his post at Auburn University in 2000 he taught at Duke University and at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

Jennifer graduated from Auburn University, receiving her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in May, 2007. While at Auburn she was involved in many organizations, including Tau Beta Pi, the Honors College, AIChE, and RUF. She received an undergraduate research fellowship and completed her thesis, "A Study of Integration Potentials in Various Fuel Sources and Reformation Strategies for Hydrogen Production," under the direction of Dr. Mario Eden. She graduated as a University Honors Scholar.

After completing school, Jennifer began working in the Advanced Control Technology group at Eastman Chemical Company, in Kingsport, TN. In her role as a control engineer, she provides support to various operating areas of the chemical plant by designing and improving control strategies; these strategies minimize process variability while optimizing operating conditions.

In August 2008, Jennifer will marry Robert Kline, a process design engineer at Eastman. When not working on wedding plans or hanging out with Bob, Jennifer loves spending time with friends, doing outdoor activities such as camping and skiing, working on various crafts (especially knitting), and being involved in her church.