Selected CV
EDUCATION
2018 Ph.D. in Modern History, University of St Andrews
2012 M.A. in American History, University of North Carolina Wilmington
2009 B.A. in History, University of North Carolina Wilmington
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
K. B. Sherman, “‘Without the Smallest Recompense’: Scottish Loyalist Women in Revolutionary North Carolina,” in Scottish Loyalism in the British Atlantic World, Graeme Morton and Katie McCullough, eds. (Routledge, 2025).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Kimberly B. Sherman, ”’Without the Smallest Recompense’: Scottish Loyalist Women in North Carolina,” Atlantic Studies (September 2023).
Kimberly B. Sherman, "'A Spirit of Industry': The Colonial Origins of Rice Culture in the Lower Cape Fear," North Carolina Historical Review 91 (July 2014): 255-287.
Peer-Reviewed Digital Publications
Kimberly B. Sherman, "Emigration as Epidemic: Perspectives on the Eighteenth-century Scottish Highlands," Nursing Clio (February 2019). Web.
Kimberly B. Sherman, “Whose Milk? Changing US Attitudes toward Maternal Breastfeeding,” Nursing Clio (September 2018). Web.
Kimberly B. Sherman, “Sowing Life and Death: Disease and Absenteeism on Eighteenth-Century Cape Fear Rice Plantations,” St. Andrews Historical Journal (October 2014). Web.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Kimberly B. Sherman, "Never Out and Never Over: Good Times at the Bijou," Salt Magazine (March 2020).
Kimberly B. Sherman, "Thistle Among the Pines: Flora MacDonald and the Highland Scots of the Cape Fear," Salt Magazine (December 2019).
DIGITAL PROJECTS
2022-Present | Executive Director, Electric Kelpie Media
2022-2025 | Producer & Host, A Barrel of Oranges Podcast
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022-Present, Lecturer in Atlantic World History, University of North Carolina Wilmington
2018-2023 Lecturer in History, Cape Fear Community College
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2022 Outstanding North Carolina Woman in History Award, North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
2019 Short-term Fellow, David Library of the American Revolution, Washington Crossing, PA
2018-19 Short-term Fellow, Winterthur Museum & Library, Wilmington, DE
2016 Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society
2014 Founders' Scholarship, St Andrews Society of Washington, DC
2014 North Carolina Humanities Council Grant for "From Civil War to Civil Rights: The African American Experience at Poplar Grove"
2011 American History Award for "Two Centuries' Harvest: Rice Culture in the Lower Cape Fear, 1730-1931," National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
INVITED TALKS & EVENTS
2026 “Thomas Peters: Fighting the Other Revolution,” New Hanover County Public Library, Wilmington, NC
2026 “Where are we now on Slavery and Capitalism?,” History Teaching Alliance, UNC Wilmington
2025 “Visions of Empire: Janet Schaw in the Lower Cape Fear,” Old Baldy Foundation, Bald Head Island, NC
2024 “Eagles Island: A Shifting Cultural Landscape,” North Carolina Rice Festival, Winnabow, NC
2022 “Behind Enemy Lines: Women in Revolutionary Wilmington,“ Burgwin-Wright House & Gardens, Wilmington, NC
2022 “Up from the Mud: Rice Cultivation and the Gullah Geechee Legacy in the Lower Cape Fear“ Federal Point Historical Society, Carolina Beach, NC
2021 “Wilmington Beneath the Surface Walking Tour,” Thirsty Tome 2021, Randall Library - UNC Wilmington.
2021 “The Real North Carolina Outlanders,” Outlander Tour, Our State Magazine, New Bern, NC.
2021 “Rice Cultivation in the Lower Cape Fear,” North Carolina Rice Festival Documentary.
2021 “Scots in Early North Carolina,” Scots in Eighteenth Century North Carolina Virtual Symposium, Halifax State Historic Site, Halifax, NC.
2021 “Highland Scots in Early North Carolina,” 245th Anniversary of the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, Moores Creek National Battlefield, Currie, NC.
2020 "For King George & Broadswords? The Highland Scots Experience at Moores Creek," Scottish Heritage Virtual Event at Moores Creek National Battlefield, Currie, NC.
2020 “Highland Charge: Scots in Early North Carolina,” Cape Fear Unearthed Podcast.
2020 "City of Death: Wilmington's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1862," Bellamy Mansion Museum, Wilmington, NC.
2017 "'From Love & second marriages may all be deliver'd': Family Strategy among Scots in North Carolina," American History Workshop, University of Edinburgh.
2015 "Gone with the Tide: The Environmental Evolution of a Southern Rice Plantation," Early Modern-Modern History Postgraduate Forum, University of St Andrews.
2015 "A Family Affair: Kinship Networks and Scottish Emigration to North Carolina, c. 1735-1775," Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop, University of Edinburgh.
2013 "Sowing Life and Death: Disease and Plantation Management in the Lower Cape Fear," Bellamy Mansion Museum, Wilmington, NC.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2019
"‘Out of the Jawbones of Scotch Grampus’: Scottish Merchants and Personal Identities in Revolutionary North Carolina, c. 1770-1780," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Cambridge, MA.
2017
"Emotion, Distance, and the Family: The Loyalist Refugee Crisis in North Carolina," British Group of Early American Historians, University of Portsmouth.
"'To whose care shall I leave them in this heathenish place?': Family Strategy among Scots in North Carolina, 1735-1775," OIEAHC 23rd Annual Conference, University of Michigan.
2016
"From the Ports to the Piedmont: Scottish Merchant Networks in the Eighteenth-Century North Carolina Backcountry," Southern Conference on British Studies, St Pete Beach, FL.
"'To push my fortune in Any other part of the world': Scottish Merchant Networks in North Carolina, 1735-1775," GRAINES Summer School, University of Cologne.
"'She is gone to enjoy pleasures infinitely greater': Marriage and Loss among North Carolina Scots in the Eighteenth Century," Institute for Scottish Historical Research Reading Weekend, University of St Andrews.
2015
"Keeping it in the Family: Scottish Kinship Networks in North Carolina, 1730-1800," British Group of Early American Historians Annual Conference, University of Sheffield.
2011
"Changing Tides: The Decline of Rice Culture on the Lower Cape Fear, 1865-1900," Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History Annual Conference, Savannah, GA.
PUBLIC HISTORY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2026-Present | Editorial Board Member, Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin.
2023-Present | Research Consultant, North Carolina Rice Festival.
2021-2023 | Consultant, Just Beyond the River: A Black Public Humanities Initiative, African American Heritage Foundation of Southeastern North Carolina and the Cedar Hill Heritage Park
2021-2023 | Board Member, North Carolina Rice Festival.
2019-2021 | Board Member and Historical Advisor, Cape Fear Scottish Immigration Memorial Fund, Scottish Society of Wilmington.
2013-2015 | Board Member and Digital Engagement, Moores Creek Battleground Association.
2014 | Project Director, "From Civil War to Civil Rights: The African American Experience at Poplar Grove," Exhibit and Lecture Series, Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc.
2013-2014 | Consulting Historian, Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc., Wilmington, NC.
2010-2012 | Archives Intern and Docent, Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, Wilmington, NC.