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Dr. Louis Venters
Professor of History
Office: FH 273
Phone: 843-661-1593
lventers@fmarion.edu
Bio
Dr. Venters began teaching at Francis Marion in 2007. He is a co-author of the award-winning public history study “African Americans in Camden, South Carolina” (2006), No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina’s Bahá’i Community (University Press of Florida, 2015) and A History of the Bahá’i Faith in South Carolina (The History Press, 2019). He is particularly interested in the history of race, religion, and social change in the United States, as well as issues of rural and urban planning and the intersection of cultural and environmental stewardship. A Pee Dee native, he has lived and traveled extensively in Africa, Central America, and Europe.
Education
PhD, University of South Carolina, 2010
Courses Taught:
U.S. History since 1877
The New South, 1865 to the Present
History of Black Americans Since 1865
African History
South Carolina History