Thomas H. Cox

Thomas H. Cox is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. A Louisiana native, he attended Birmingham-Southern College and received a Ph.D from SUNY-Buffalo under the guidance of Richard E. Ellis. His book Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic (Ohio University Press, 2009) explores the congressional and judicial regulation of trade, people, and social issues throughout American history. Cox has contributed to the Journal of Supreme Court History, the History of Nebraska Law, and the Southern Historian. For the 2009-2010 academic year he was Visiting Fulbright Professor at the Institute for American Studies at Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China. Current projects involve a history of early American-Chinese trading relations and a biography of Thomas Gibbons.