452 Price Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
Chris.Hendricks@armstrong.edu
(912) 234-9457

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. The College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1991

M.A. The College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1987
     Apprenticeship in Historical Archaeology

B.A. Wake Forest University, 1986
     Cum Laude, Honors in History

TEACHING:

Professor. Armstrong Atlantic State University, 2006-present. Associate Professor, 1999-2006. Assistant Professor, 1993-1999.

Visiting Associate Professor. The College of William and Mary in Virginia. 2001-2002.

Visiting Assistant Professor. The University of Alabama in Huntsville. 1992-1993.

Instructor, The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Spring and Summer 1992, Fall 1989.

Instructor, Hampton University. Spring 1992.

Instructor, Wake Forest University. Summer 1991, Summer 1990, Summer 1989.

Archaeological Field School Supervisor. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation/The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Summer 1987.

PUBLIC HISTORY WORK (selected):

Board Member, Seabrook Village Foundation, Inc. Midway, Georgia. 2005-present.

Consultant, The Virtual Historic Savannah Project. http://vsav.scad.edu/ 2000-present.

Consultant, US 84 Corridor Study. Liberty County, Georgia. 2005-2006.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Williamsburg, Virginia. Education Division. 2001-2002. Historic Area Presentation and Tours. 1986-1992.  Department of Archaeological Research. 1986-1988.

Coastal Georgia Land Trust. Savannah, Georgia. Advisory Board, 2001-2004. Trustee, 1994-2001. Consultant, 1993-1994.

Consultant, Isaiah Davenport House Interior Restoration. Savannah, Georgia. 1999-2001.

Slave Cabin Reconstruction Project, Leconte's Woodmanston Plantation and Botanical Garden. Riceboro, Georgia. 1999.

Consultant, The Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Society. Savannah, Georgia. 1994-98.

1753 Garden Restoration Project. Historic Bethabara Park (City of Winston-Salem). Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 1991.

Drying Building Reconstruction Project. Horne Creek Farm (North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History). Stokes County, North Carolina. 1990.

Historic Bethabara Park. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Assistant Director. 1985-1986. Interpreter. 1982-1986.

Obed Macy House Building Survey. Preservation Institute: Nantucket. Nantucket, Massachusetts. 1985.

Old Salem, Incorporated. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Craft Interpreter. 1979-1982.

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

Articles:

Fertig, Barbara C. and Christopher E. Hendricks. "Speaking in the Vernacular: Ritual, Design, and Oral Tradition in the Southern Lowcountry and Caribbean." In Marisa C. Gomez and E. G. Daves Rossell eds., Vernacular Architecture Forum 2007 Field Guide (2007): 379-84.

"Beach Institute Historic Neighborhood." In Marisa C. Gomez and E. G. Daves Rossell eds., Vernacular Architecture Forum 2007 Field Guide (2007): 72-77.

"The Backcountry Grows Up." Tar Heel Junior Historian 45 (Spring 2006): 12-14.

"The Isaiah Davenport House: Everyone's Heritage. A Virtual Tour." CD Rom, Bruce Habersham Producer. Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1999.

Fertig, Barbara C. and Christopher E. Hendricks. "Structures and Strategies: Reflections of Life in Pinpoint Georgia." Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians 19 (1998):107-24.

Hendricks, Christopher E. and J. Edwin Hendricks. "Settling the North Carolina Piedmont," Tar Heel Junior Historian 34 (Spring 1995):16-21.

"The Moravian Connection–Gracehill and Salem." Ulster Folklife 36 (1990):55-65.

"Designing Utopia: The Moravians in Ulster and North Carolina." Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review 2 (1989):60-7.

Lester, David and Christopher E. Hendricks. "Tobacco Pipes from Site CL7–Port Anne." Unpublished Manuscript on File. Department of Archaeological Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1987.

Encyclopedia Entries:

"Samuel Kennedy." In Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: A Social, Political, and Military History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.

"Winston-Salem, North Carolina." In Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, eds. Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville: University of  Tennessee Press, 2006.

"Anne Hutchinson," "Cotton Mather," "Increase Mather," "Peter Minuit," "Pocahontas," "Roger Williams," and "John Winthrop." In Christopher Baker, ed. Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2002.

Book Reviews:

Review of Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler, "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry in The Historian, forthcoming.

Review of Walter J. Fraser, Jr., Savannah in the Old South in South Carolina Historical Magazine 105 (October 2004): 319-21.

Review of David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly, Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement in History Reviews of Books 28 (Spring 2000): 106-7.

Review of John C. Inscoe, ed. James Edward Oglethorpe: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History 13 (Fall 1998):66-7.

Review of Ron Byrnside, Music in Eighteenth-Century Georgia in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History 12 (Fall 1997):93-4.

Review of Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds. Religion in a Revolutionary Age in North Carolina Historical Review 72 (January 1995):106-7.

ACADEMIC PAPERS:

"Der Up-land Gartten and the Hortus Medicus: Town and Country in the Moravian Village of Bethabara, North Carolina." Paper presented to the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Athens, Georgia, March 3, 2006.

"Commercializing Pleasure: Spas in Colonial Virginia." Paper presented to the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Columbia, South Carolina, February 27, 2003.

"Building ‘Villages of the Lord': The Birth and Development of the Moravian Congregation Town." Paper presented to the symposium "German Moravians in the Atlantic World." Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 5, 2002.

Hendricks, Christopher E. and Barbara C. Fertig. "From Home to History: Architecture and Heritage in an African -American Community." Paper presented to the Second Savannah Symposium: Authenticity in Architecture. Savannah, Georgia, February 16, 2001.

Hendricks, Christopher E. and Barbara C. Fertig. "The Marriage House: Ritual, Design, and Oral Tradition in the Southern Lowcountry and Carribean." Paper presented to the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Duluth, Minnesota, June 10, 2000.

"‘And will you there a city build': Wachovia, the Moravians, and a Vision of Utopia." Paper presented to the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Savannah, Georgia, March 3, 2000.

"Seabrook" and "Pin Point." Papers presented to Vernacular Georgia Annual Meeting, Midway and Savannah, Georgia, January 30-31, 1998.

Hendricks, Christopher E. and Barbara C. Fertig. "Speaking in the Vernacular: Some Antecedents of Rural Lowcountry Houses." Paper presented to the Georgia Preservation Conference. Athens, Georgia. November 5, 1997.

"African-American Building Traditions: The Creation of a Cultural Identity." Paper presented to the Council of the Americas Conference. Savannah, Georgia. May 24, 1997.

Hendricks, Christopher E.and Barbara C. Fertig. "Structures and Strategies: Reflections of Life in Pin Point Georgia." Paper presented to the Georgia Association of Historians. Atlanta, Georgia. April 11, 1997.

Hendricks, Christopher E. and Barbara C. Fertig. "Houses and Voices: African-American Culture in the Lowcountry." Paper presented to the Georgia Association of Historians, Fort Valley, Georgia, April 13, 1996.

"Walls Do Talk: Vernacular Housing in the Caribbean and the Lowcountry." Paper presented to the conference "If Walls Could Talk," Midway, Georgia, October 7, 1995.

"The Land Trust: A New Tool in Historic Preservation." Paper presented to the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration. Savannah, Georgia, October 6, 1995.

"Savannah's Squares: Reflections of Southern Urban Society." Paper presented to the conference "Georgia Legacies Etched on the Land." Savannah, Georgia, November 4, 1994.

"Death, Gingerbread, and Christmas: Balancing Education and Entertainment at Historic Sites and Museums." Keynote address presented to the Association of Living History Farms and Museums (ALHFAM), Regional Conference. Huntsville Alabama, February 6, 1993.

"Health and Good Society: The Development of the Spa Town in Colonial Virginia." Paper presented to the Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar. Staunton, Virginia, January 17, 1992.

"Designing Utopia: The Moravians in Ulster and North Carolina." Paper presented to the Communal Societies of America, Annual Conference. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 8, 1988.

"The Moravians in Two Worlds: Gracehill, Northern Ireland and Salem, North Carolina." Paper presented to the Ulster/American Society Conference. Coleraine, Northern Ireland, July 28, 1988.

"Daniel Defoe: His Work in the Union of 1707." Paper presented to the Carolinas Symposium of British Studies. Boone, North Carolina, October 18, 1986.

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND INTERNSHIPS:

Kristina C. Brockmeier Faculty Award. Armstrong Atlantic State University. 1998.

Regional Designation Awards in Humanities Grant. Georgia Humanities Council Grant. 1994.

Preservation Services Fund Grant. The National Trust. 1994.

Goodwin Fellow. The College of William and Mary in Virginia. 1986-1991.

Minor Research Grant. The College of William and Mary in Virginia. 1990.

Jamestown Fellow. Jamestown/Yorktown Foundation. Williamsburg, Virginia. 1987-1988.

Minor Research Grant. The College of William and Mary in Virginia. 1988.

Apprenticeship in Historical Archaeology. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation/The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Williamsburg, Virginia. 1986-1987.

Williamsburg Antiques Forum. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Williamsburg, Virginia. 1987.

The Carolinas Symposium of British Studies Award for Best Undergraduate Paper. 1986.

The Forrest W. Clonts Research Prize in Non-American History. Wake Forest University. 1986.

Preservation Institute: Nantucket. Department of Architecture, The University of Florida. Nantucket, Massachusetts. 1985.