Jarod Roll

Professor of History

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  jhroll@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  305 Bishop Hall

• Phone:

  662-915-7148

Dr. Jarod Roll is a Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi.

Research Interests

• Working-class conservatism  

• Agricultural and rural-industrial political economy and labor 

• Religion and labor 

• Radical social and political movements 

• Missouri studies 

Biography

Jarod Roll joined the University of Mississippi in 2014 after teaching for seven years at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950 (North Carolina, 2020), which won the Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association, and Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South (Illinois, 2010), which won the C. L. R. James Award from the Working Class Studies Association and the Missouri History Book Award from the State Historical Society of Missouri. Roll is the coauthor of The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America (Illinois, 2011), which won the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association. He has also published research in the Journal of Southern History, LABOR, Labor History, Radical History Review, Religion and American Culture, and Southern Spaces, as well as in edited volumes on southern Populism, working-class Christianity, and Black farmers. 

Dr. Roll has won major research funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Academy, and the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. He serves as a contributing editor for the journal LABOR, on the board of the Southern Labor Studies Association, and in the Distinguished Lectureship Program of the Organization of American Historians.

Courses Taught

• HST 131 Introduction to United States History since 1877
• HST 406 United States, World War I to World War II, 1914-1945
• HST 433 United States Labor History
• HST 451 The South in the Twentieth Century

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of History

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford

• Areas of Expertise

  Jarod Roll is a historian of modern America who specializes in labor and working-class history since the Civil War, with a particular interest in social movements and popular economic thought.