Daniel Vivian, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Daniel Vivian is a historian of the American South. His first book, A New Plantation World: Sporting Plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), examined the creation of large sporting estates in the coastal region of South Carolina during the early twentieth century and the consequences for historical memory of slavery and contemporary ideas about plantations. He is currently working on a study of historical memory of slavery between the world wars. Dr. Vivian has published articles in The Public Historian, Winterthur Portfolio, the South Carolina Historical Magazine, and Ohio Valley History. He is also the author of several successful nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and has written extensively about interpretation of controversial pasts. Dr. Vivian currently serves on the boards of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation.

Dr. Vivian has received several awards for his teaching, including recognition for community-engaged courses that put students in conversation with working professionals, interested citizens, and activists in exploring contested historical subjects. He routinely teaches courses on the history, theory, and practice of historic preservation, public history, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century American architecture.

Before earning his Ph.D., Dr. Vivian held positions with the National Register of Historic Places, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, and the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.