Academic record
Curriculum Vitae
Education, publications, teaching, awards, conference presentations, and service.
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Tanner Lee Corley
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Alabama
(501) 467-4918 · tlcorley@crimson.ua.edu
Education
2027
Ph.D. in History, University of Alabama.
Dissertation: License to Cut: Race, Regulation, and the Southern Beauty Industry, 1890–1980
Advisor: Kari Frederickson
Dissertation: License to Cut: Race, Regulation, and the Southern Beauty Industry, 1890–1980
Advisor: Kari Frederickson
2023
M.A. in History, University of Alabama
2021
B.S. in History and Political Science, Minor in Economics, University of Central Arkansas
Appointments
2026–
Assistant Editor, Southern Historian
2023–
Student Research Affiliate, Knee Regulatory Research Center
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2026
“Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in Alabama and the Nation.” Enterprise & Society 27, no. 1 (2026): 1–26.
2023
With Wendy Lucas and Marcus Witcher. “License to Exclude: Minority Barbers in Arkansas.” Essays in Economic and Business History 41, no. 2 (2023): 132–148.
2021
With Marcus M. Witcher. “Barber Licensing in Arkansas: Public Health or Private Gain?” Cato Journal 41 (2021): 115–138.
Selected Additional Publications
2025
Review of Bartow Elmore, Country Capitalism. Southern Historian 46 (Spring 2025): 29–31.
2024
Review of Amity Shlaes, New Deal Rebels. The Independent Review 28, no. 3 (Winter 2023/2024).
2023
Review of Julie Willett, The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History. Southern Historian 44 (Spring 2023): 70–71.
Works Under Review
2026
With Marcus Witcher and Alicia Plemmons. “Rent-Seeking and State Regulatory Action: The Historical Case of Jitneys in the American South.” Under review at the Journal of Regulatory Economics.
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record, University of Alabama Department of History
2026
HY 104, American Civilization Since 1865 — Summer II
2025
HY 104, American Civilization Since 1865 — Summer (online)
2024
HY 101, Western Civilization to 1648 — Summer (online)
2023
HY 104, American Civilization Since 1865 — Summer (online)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Alabama
2021–2026
HY 101, Western Civilization to 1648; HY 102, Western Civilization from 1648; HY 103, American Civilization to 1865; HY 104, American Civilization since 1865; HY 115, History of Science and Medicine to 1800; HY 116, History of Science and Medicine since 1800; HY 357, World War I
Supplemental Instructor, University of Central Arkansas
2021
HY 2302, America in the Modern Era
Fellowships and Awards
2026–2027
Mercatus Center Fellowship, Mainline Political Economy
2026
Friends of the Alabama Archives Student Research Fellowship
2026
Frazine Taylor Graduate Student Research Grant, Alabama Historical Association
2025
Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship Grant
2023
James Soltow Award, best essay published in Essays in Economic and Business History
2020
Arkansas Center for Research in Economics Research Travel Fund Recipient
2020
Carl Menger Student Essay Contest Prize (one of three winners), Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
2019–2021
Research Fellow, Arkansas Center for Research in Economics
Invited Talks and Conference Presentations
2026
“License to Cut: Race, Regulation, and the Southern Beauty Industry.” Public Talk, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, September 17.
2025
“Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Beauticians in Alabama and the Nation.” Southern Association for Women Historians Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, June 19–22.
2025
“Race and Regulation: The Rise and Fall of Jitneys in the South.” Economic and Business History Society Conference, Birmingham, AL, May 29–31.
2025
“Race and Regulation: The Rise and Fall of Jitneys in the South.” Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 6–9.
2024
“Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in Alabama and the Nation.” Knee Regulatory Research Center Emerging Scholars Conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, May 21–22.
2024
“Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in Alabama and the Nation.” Phase One, Knee Regulatory Research Center Emerging Scholars Conference (online).
2024
“Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in Alabama.” Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 7–9.
2023
“Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in Alabama.” Alabama Historical Association Annual Meeting, Prattville, AL, April 15.
2023
“Regulating Beauty: The Licensing of Barbers and Beauticians in the Nation.” Markets and Movements Graduate History Association Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, February 18.
2021
“License to Exclude: Minority Barbers in Arkansas.” Knee Center Emerging Scholars Conference (online).
2020
“Rent-Seeking for Occupational Licensing: Evidence from the History of Barber Licensing in Arkansas.” Southern Economic Association Conference (online).
Public Scholarship and Media
Media
2026
Guest, Alabama History Podcast, “Episode 98: Tanner Corley on Alabama History Association Frazine Taylor Award 2026,” August 3.
2024
Consulted as subject-matter expert for “St. Louis to Let Barbers Work Nights, Axing Old Law Aimed at Black Shops,” The Washington Post.
Op-Eds and Public Writing
2024
“History Repeats Itself with Excessive Transportation Regulation.” The Orange County Register, August 13.
2021
“The Game of Chicken and Biden’s Border Crisis.” Log Cabin Democrat.
2020
“Hairy Regulations.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, December 11.
2020
“Barber Licensing in Arkansas Could Use a Cut.” ACRE Blog, July 21.
Academic Service
2024–2025
Recruitment Chair, Graduate History Association, University of Alabama
2023–2024
Secretary, Graduate History Association, University of Alabama
2023
Panel Commentator, Power and Struggle Conference, Graduate History Association, University of Alabama, Spring
References
Kari Frederickson
Professor, Department of History
University of Alabama
kari@ua.edu
Lesley Gordon
Professor, Department of History
University of Alabama
ljgordon1@ua.edu
Joshua Rothman
Professor, Department of History
University of Alabama
jrothman@ua.edu
David Beito
Professor Emeritus, Department of History
University of Alabama
davidtbeito@gmail.com