Dave Bowman, a Virginia native, received his BA from the University of Virginia. He came to the University of Kentucky in 2001, having been Associate Professor of History and Associate Chair of the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

He enjoys teaching both halves of the US survey, History 108 and 109, in addition to seminars in the history of the South, the coming of the Civil War, and U.S. religious history.

Major publication:
Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Since moving to Lexington he has published three articles:

• "Synthesizing Southern Slavery: A Review Essay," in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Autumn 2005): 727-741;
• "Presbyterianism," in Samuel S. Hill and Charles H. Lippy, eds, Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, 2nd ed. (Mercer University Press, 2005): 619-625; 
• "Industrialization and Economic Development in the 19th-Century U.S. South: Some Interregional and Intercontinental Perspectives,"in Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie, eds, Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, introduction by Stanley Engerman (Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 2005): 76-104. Rights, Liberties, and Interests: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis of 1860-61 is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.

Upcoming publication: (2009) UNC Press: At the Precipice: Americans North and South on the Eve of the Civil War