McGraw Groh, Charles

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Education

1987 Georgetown University, B.A.
1993 University of Connecticut, M.A.
2005 University of Connecticut, Ph.D.

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Courses Taught

Museums, Historic Sites and Archives
The History of U.S. Foreign Relations
The History of Florida
The Civil Rights Movement
The History of Sexuality
Women and Gender in U.S. History
The United States Since 1877

Career Specialties

Charles McGraw Groh is a public historian who encourages community involvement in the creation of peer-reviewed scholarship for exhibitions in museums and online. He specializes in U.S. history, with a particular focus on the years between 1877 and 1917. His research interests include U.S. imperialism, labor, gender and sexuality and civil rights movements.

Professional and Community Activities

McGraw Groh has published peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals such as The Journal of Women’s History, History Workshop Journal and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. He has presented his research at numerous professional meetings, including the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, as well as the annual meetings of the Organization of American Historians and the American Studies Association. Research for these works was supported by an Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the American Historical Association, and by residential fellowships from the Newberry Library and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and The New York Historical Society.

McGraw Groh serves as the Historian-in-Residence at the Henry B. Plant Museum. He has curated several special exhibits, including "When the Train Comes Along": Booker T. Washington at the Tampa Bay Casino and Stop the Presses! Fake News and the War of 1898. He creates history content for the museum's website and YouTube channel, and he offers museum talks as well as presentations in community forums.

McGraw Groh is collaborating with Rodney Shores, The University of Tampa Music Department, on a multi-year research project on the history of popular entertainment. In partnership with the Henry B. Plant Museum and performing arts students, the project combines archival research with historically informed performance to recover forgotten artistic works and to examine their significance in Gilded Age America. The first episode of their documentary series on the history of Operetta was completed in 2023 and is available online, entitled Gems from Olivette: The Sexual Politics of French Operetta.

Honors and Awards

McGraw Groh is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Alpha Theta, the International Honor Society in History, Delta Omicron Chapter. He was awarded a one-year dissertation fellowship by The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. He received The University of Connecticut History Department’s graduate student teaching award, and, in 2017-2018, The University of Tampa CSSME Award for Outstanding Teaching.