Jerma A. Jackson

512 Pauli Murray Hall
jaj@email.unc.edu
Office Hours

Research Interests:

Jerma A. Jackson’s main research interest is twentieth century social and cultural history, with a special interest on African American life, religion, music and women’s history. In her first book Jackson engaged music to examine black life and culture, tracing gospel from its beginnings as a mode of worship to its expansion into commercialized culture during the forties and fifties. Jackson uses the music to examine some of the mounting changes that unfolded in the twentieth century—expanding industrialization and urban migration, the growth of consumer values and materialism, and the emergence of mass produced culture.

Graduate Students:

This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle

Courses Offered:

• HIST 128—United States History Since 1865
• HIST 569—African American Women’s History

Notable Publications:

• Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age (UNC Press, 2004)

Louis A. Pérez, Jr.

550 Hamilton Hall
perez@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: R 2:00 – 4:00 pm and by appointment
(919)962-3943
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Principal research interests center on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean, with emphasis on Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Current research explores the character of society and gender in nineteenth-century Cuba.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Daniella McIvor
• Anthony Rossodovito

Courses Offered:

• HIST 143—Latin America Since Independence
• HIST 531—History of the Caribbean
• HIST 532—History of Cuba

Notable Publications:

• Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
• Intimations of Modernity: Civil-Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. University of North Carolina Press: 2017.
• The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past (University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
• Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
• To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
• On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)

Susan Dabney Pennybacker

507 Pauli Murray Hall
pennybac@email.unc.edu
On Leave Spring 2024
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Susan Dabney Pennybacker’s research centers upon the political culture of modern Britain and the former British Empire. Her book-in-progress, entitled Fire By Night, Cloud by Day: refuge and exile in postwar London (Cambridge), concerns the movement of individuals between South Africa, Trinidad, India, and metropolitan London between 1945 and 1994. It is based in both archival and ethnographic research conducted in London, New Delhi, Port of Spain, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. She has a keen interest in visual media sources, especially in documentary photography and film. Pennybacker is a founding member and co-convener of the Triangle Global British History Seminar and the Transnational and Global Modern History seminar; she is a member of the convening board of the Triangle Intellectual History Seminar. Pennybacker serves as an associate editor of the Journal of British Studies; a member of the editorial board of the series, Critical Connected Histories (Leiden University Press); and, an advisory board member of the American Friends of the Institute for Historical Research (University of London).

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Katie Laird
• Morgan Wilson (Co-Advised with Morgan Pitelka)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 164—The History of Britain in the 19th Century
• HIST 165—The History of Britain in the 20th Century
• HIST 398—Modern London: The Imperial Metropolis
• HIST 490 (Honors)—Topics in British Imperial History, 1715–Present
• HIST 722—Contemporary Global History
• HIST 771—Topics in Modern European History
• HIST 775—Studies in Modern English History

Notable Publications:

• “Fire By Night, Cloud By Day: refuge and exile in postwar London,” Presidential address, North American Conference on British Studies, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 50, 1, January 2020.
• “A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-1994, in, Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrence, eds., Africans in Exile: mobility, law and identity (Indiana University Press, 2018), 185-99.
• “Anti-apartheid testimony: unmaking the histories of South African Jewish communists” in Carol S. Gould, Simone Gigliotti and Jacob Golomb, eds., Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Berel Lang (Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
• From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (Princeton University Press, 2009)
• A Vision for London, 1889–1914: Labour, Everyday Life and the London County Council Experiment (Routledge, 1995, paperback edition, 2013)

Michael Cotey Morgan

Hamilton Hall 424
morgan@unc.edu
Office Hours: W 11:00am-2:00pm. Please make an appointment here.

Research Interests:

Michael Cotey Morgan specializes in modern international and global history. He is the author of The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War, which received the 2018 Edgar S. Furniss Award for best first book in international security.

At UNC, he teaches courses on international history, the Cold War, and human rights. He previously taught at the US Naval War College and the University of Toronto, where he was the inaugural holder of the Raymond Pryke Chair.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Michael Ferguson (Co-advised with Wayne Lee)
• Ahmet Tarık Caskurlu (Co-advised with Cemil Aydin)
• Mark Thomas-Patterson (Co-advised with Klaus Larres)
• Dana Mendes (Co-advised with Wayne E. Lee)
• Zach Alessi-Friedlander (Co-advised with Wayne E. Lee)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 58—History and the Meaning of Life
• HIST 205—Statecraft, Diplomacy, and War, 1618-1815
• HIST 206—Statecraft, Diplomacy, and War, 1815-1945
• HIST 207—The Global Cold War
• HIST 398—Cold War Summits
• HIST 510—Human Rights in the Modern World
• HIST 700—Thinking Historically
• HIST 722—Readings in Contemporary Global History
• HIST 723—Readings in Global Cold War History

Notable Publications:

Book

The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2018).

Selected Articles and Chapters

“Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation,” The New Makers of Modern Strategy, ed. Hal Brands (Princeton University Press, 2023).

“Helsinki 1975: Borders and People,” co-authored with Daniel Sargent (UC-Berkeley), Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970-1990, ed. David Reynolds and Kristina Spohr (Oxford University Press, 2016).

“Confidence and Distrust at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE),” Trust but Verify: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1991, ed. Martin Klimke, Reinhild Kreis, and Christian Ostermann (Stanford University Press, 2016).

“The Ambiguities of Humanitarian Intervention,” The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft, ed. Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri (Brookings Institution Press, 2015).

“The Seventies and the Rebirth of Human Rights,” The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s, ed. Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent (Harvard University Press, 2010).

“The United States and the Making of the Helsinki Final Act,” Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations 1969–1977, ed. Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston (Oxford University Press, 2008).

“North America, Atlanticism, and the Helsinki Process,” At the Roots of European Security: The Early Helsinki Process Revisited, 1965–1975, ed. Andreas Wenger, Vojtech Mastny, and Christian Nuenlist (Routledge, 2008).

“Michael Ignatieff: Idealism and the Challenge of the ‘Lesser Evil,’” International Journal 61:4 (Autumn 2006): 971–85.

Terence McIntosh

472 Hamilton Hall
terence_mcintosh@unc.edu
Office Hours: MWF 11:15 am – 12:05 pm
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Terence McIntosh is a specialist of early modern Germany, especially its social, political, religious, and economic history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His current book project, “Disciplining the Parish: Godly Order, Enlightenment, and the Lutheran Clergy in Germany, 1517–1806,” examines the dynamics by which a shifting array of social, theological, and intellectual forces induced prominent churchmen, rulers, and secular thinkers to examine critically and recast significantly the purpose, scope, and nature of Lutheran church discipline at key moments in the early modern period.

Graduate Students:

This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle

Courses Offered:

• HIST 251–The Thirty Years’ War (1618-48): Europe in an Age of Crisis
• HIST 254–War and Society in Early Modern Europe
• HIST 255–Manor to Machine: The Economic Shaping of Europe
• HIST 306–Princes and Reformations in Germany, 1400-1600
• HIST 307–War and Enlightenment in Germany, 1600-1815

Notable Publications:

“The Words of Forgiveness: Luther, The Keys, and the Nuremberg Absolution Controversy.” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte / Archive for Reformation History 113 (2022):36-39. (https://doi.org/10.14315/arg-2022-1130103).

“Luther, Melanchthon, and the Specter of Zwingli during the Diet of Augsburg in 1530”
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History 111 (2020): 78-108 (https://doi.org/10.14315/arg-2020-1110105)

“Das ‘Werck der Christlichen Disciplin’ Herzog Ernsts des Frommen. Inspiration für die
Glauchaer Kirchenzucht August Hermann Franckes?” Translated by Annegret Oehme. In Pietismus in Thüringen–Pietismus aus Thüringen. Religiöse Reform im Mitteldeutschland des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, pp. 51-69. Ed. Veronika Albrecht-Birkner and Alexander Schunka. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018.

“August Hermann Franckes Behandlung des Themas Kirchenzucht in seinem Collegium
Pastorale.” Translated by Friederike Brühöfener. In Hallesches Waisenhaus und Berliner
Hof. Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Pietismus und Preußen, pp. 125-36. Ed. Holger
Zaunstöck, Brigitte Klosterberg, Christian Soboth, and Benjamin Marschke. Halle: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, 2017.

“Pietists, Jurists, and the Early Enlightenment Critique of Private Confession in Lutheran Germany.” Modern Intellectual History 12, no. 3 (2015): 627-56,doi:10.1017/S1479244314000900 Published online 19 March 2015 (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1017/S1479244314000900)

Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region, 1650-1750.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997 (317 pages).

James L. Leloudis

225 Graham Memorial Hall
leloudis@unc.edu
Office Hours: T 3:30-5:00 pm and W 12:30-2:00pm
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Professor Leloudis’ research and teaching focus on the social and political history of the modern South, with particular interests in labor, education, poverty, and voting rights. Together with Patricia Parker (Ruel W. Tyson Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities), he co-chairs UNC’s Commission on History, Race, and A Way Forward. Professor Leloudis has also served as an expert witness in a number of recent voting rights cases tried in state and federal courts.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Elizabeth Lundeen, “Brick and Mortar: Historically Black Colleges and the Struggle for Equality, 1930-1960,” Ph.D. dissertation, 2018.
• Evan Faulkenbury, “Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Financing of the Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1992,” Ph.D. dissertation, 2016. Published as Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
• Brandon K. Winford, “‘The Battle for Freedom Begins Every Morning’: John Hervey Wheeler, Civil Rights, and New South Prosperity,” Ph.D. dissertation, 2014. Published as John Hervey Wheeler: Black Banking and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2020). Recipient of the Lillian Smith Award, 2020.
• Willie J. Griffin, “Courier of Crisis, Messenger of Hope: Trezzvant W. Anderson and the Black Freedom Struggle for Economic Justice,” Ph.D. dissertation, 2016. Forthcoming, Vanderbilt University Press, 2023.
• Jacob M. Taylor(Co-advised with W. Fitzhugh Brundage)

Courses Offered:


• HIST 366—North Carolina History Before 1865
• HIST 367—North Carolina History Since 1865
• HIST 587—The South Since Reconstruction
• HIST 841—Readings in the South Since Reconstruction
• HNRS 353—Slavery and the University

Notable Publications:


• Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina with Robert Korstad (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
• To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Injustice in 1960s America, with Robert Korstad (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Recipient of the North Caroliniana Society Book Award.
• North Carolina (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2003).
• Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880–1920 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Recipient of the Mayflower Cup for Non-Fiction, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
• Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World, with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly (University of North Carolina Press, 1987 and 2000; W. W. Norton, 1989). Recipient of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association; Merle Curti Social History Award, Organization of American Historians; and Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University.

Wayne E. Lee

400 Hamilton Hall
wlee@unc.edu
Office Hours: TR 900-10:30 am and by appointment

Personal Website

Research Interests:

Wayne Lee specializes in early modern military history, with a particular focus on North America and the Atlantic World, but he teaches military history from a full global perspective at the undergraduate and graduate level. He also teaches courses on violence as well as on the early English exploration of the Atlantic. As a kind of additional career, he works with archaeology projects in the Balkans and has numerous publications in that field. For more details on Professor Lee’s research see the link to his personal web page above.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• James Britt (Co-advised with Eren Tasar)
• Michael Ferguson (Co-advised with Michael Cotey Morgan)
• Tom Scovel (Co-Advised with Joseph Glatthaar)
• Susannah Haury
• Kip DiEugenio (Co-advised with Joseph T. Glatthaar)
• Zach Alessi-Friedlander (Co-advised with Michael Cotey Morgan)
• Cavender Sutton
• Ariel Wilks (Co-advised with Kathleen DuVal)
• Dave Marthy (Co-advised with W. Fitzhugh Brundage)
• Dana Mendes (Co-advised with Michael Cotey Morgan)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 266—Global History of Warfare
• HIST 292H—Early English Exploration and Colonization
• PWAD 350—National and International Security

Notable Publications:

• The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
• Wayne E. Lee, David L. Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony E. Carlson, The Other Face of Battle: America’s Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
• Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
• Editor, with Michael Galaty, Ols Lafe, and Zamir Tafilica, Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013)
• Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
• Editor, Warfare and Culture in World History (NYU Press, 2011)
• Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (University Press of Florida, 2001)
• “Fortify, Fight, or Flee: Tuscarora and Cherokee Defensive Warfare and Military Culture Adaptation,” Journal of Military History 68 (2004): 713–770

Klaus W. Larres

416 Hamilton Hall
larres@unc.edu
Office Hours: On Leave Spring 2024

Personal Website

Research Interests:

Klaus Larres is an expert on contemporary U.S. and German/EU foreign, economic, and security policies toward the transatlantic world and China and S.E. Asia. He writes and lectures on post-Cold War geopolitics, U.S. foreign policy, European integration, and the complex interactions that shape the triangle US-EU/Germany-China. He also has a great interest in the history of the Cold War and the politics of Winston Churchill.

In short, Larres’ major research interests are threefold: 1. Current U.S. and EU/German economic and security policies toward China and S.E. Asia; 2. Transatlantic relations, U.S., German and British foreign policy, and European integration; and 3. International history of the 20th century, in particular the Cold War and the politics of Winston Churchill.
Lecture Series

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Pasuth Thothaveesansuk

Courses Offered:

• HIST 178H – The Global Order from World War II to the Present
• HIST 246 – U.S. Foreign Relations in the 20th Century: The Long Cold War
• HIST 245 (Maymester)–The U.S. and the Global Cold War: Origins, Development, Legacy
• HIST 397—Torn between the U.S. and Europe: Britain, Germany, and European Integration since World War II
• HIST 398—Shaping the World: The Emergence of New Global Orders in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• HIST 577—Transatlantic Relations & Contemporary Geo-Politics: from the Cold War to the Present
• HIST 580—Global Relations and Public History (in connection with the Krasno Global Events Series)

Notable Publications:

• Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger and the Threat of a United Europe (Yale University Press, 2022)
• Editor, Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power Across Global Politics (Routledge, 2022)
• Co-editor, Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations: Threats and Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
• Co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of German Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Co-editor, Understanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs (Routledge, 2020)
• Co-editor, German-American Relations in the 21st Century: A Fragile Friendship (Routledge, 2019)
• Co-editor, Willy Brandt and International Relations: Europe, the U.S. and Latin America, 1974-1992 (Bloomsbury, 2019)
• Editor, The U.S. Secretaries of State and Transatlantic Relations (Routledge, 2010)
• Editor, Companion to Europe since 1945 (Blackwell, 2009)
• Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (Yale University Press, 2002)
• Co-authored, A History of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1989 (in German, 2nd ed., 2005).
• Editor (with the assistance of E. Meehan), Uneasy Allies: British-German Relations and European Integration since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Politics of Illusion: Churchill, Eisenhower, and the German Question, 1945–1955 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995) [written in German]

Miguel La Serna

566 Pauli Murray Hall
laserna@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: T 9:30-11:00am and by appointment

Research Interests:

Miguel La Serna is interested in the relationship between culture, memory, and political violence in twentieth-century Latin America. He has published numerous studies on the political violence of late-20th century Peru, and is currently working on a project that puts Andean insurgencies in global perspective.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Marlon Londono
• Emily Taylor
• Nathan Gill
• Diana Torres (Romance Studies)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 51—Ideology and Revolution in Latin America
• HIST 142–Latin America Under Colonial Rule
• HIST 143–Latin America Since Independence
• HIST 145–Latin American Indigenous Peoples
• HIST 242—U.S.-Latin American Relations
• HIST 248–U.S.-Latin American Relations
• HIST 280–Women and Gender in Latin America
• HIST 398—The Life and Times of Che Guevara
• HIST 714–Colloquium in the History of Latin America since 1810
• HIST 742–History and Memory
• HIST 820–Problems in Latin America: Latin America in the Cold War

Notable Publications:

• With Masses and Arms: Peru’s Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
• The Shining Path: Love, Madness and Revolution in the Andes (co-authored with Orin Starn). New York: WW Norton & Company, 2019.
• The Corner of the Living: Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
• “Murió comiendo rata: Power Relations in Pre-Sendero Ayacucho, Peru, 1940–1983,” A Contracorriente Vol. 9 Issue 2 (Winter 2012), 1–34
• “To Cross the River of Blood: How an Inter-Community Conflict is Linked to the Peruvian Civil War, 1940–1983,” in Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes, eds. Christine Hunefeldt and Milos Kokotovic (Sussex Academic Press, 2009)

Lloyd S. Kramer

455 Hamilton Hall
lkramer@unc.edu
Office Hours: W 1:30-3:30 pm and by appointment
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Lloyd Kramer’s interests focus on Modern European History with an emphasis on nineteenth-century France. He is particularly interested in historical processes that shape cultural identities, including the experiences of cross-cultural exchange and the emergence of modern nationalism. Other research and teaching interests deal with the roles of intellectuals in modern societies and the theoretical foundations of historical knowledge. His teaching stresses the importance of reading, discussing, and writing about influential books in various eras of European history and world history. One recurring theme in all of his research and teaching stresses the importance of cross-cultural exchanges in modern world history.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Sarah Miles

Courses Offered:

• HIST 53—Traveling to European Cities: American Writers and Cultural Identities, 1830-2000.
• HIST 151—European History to 1650
• HIST 391—The Age of the Atlantic Revolutions
• HIST 466—Modern European Intellectual History
• HIST 772—Readings in the Intellectual History of Europe

Notable Publications:

• Co-author, with R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton, of A History of Europe in the Modern World, 12th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2020)
• Nationalism in Europe and America: Politics, Cultures, and Identities Since 1775 (UNC Press, 2011)
• Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (UNC Press, 1996)
• Co-editor, Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures and Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
• Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830–1848 (Cornell University Press, 1988)