Michelle King

475 Pauli Murray Hall
mtking@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: T/R 3:30-4:30 pm, W 2:00-3:00 pm
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Michelle T. King specializes in modern Chinese gender history and food history. She was recently awarded a 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars grant for her book project on Taiwan’s beloved postwar television cooking celebrity, Fu Pei-mei (1931-2004). She has also received major fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Historical Studies. Her article on Margaret Sanger’s 1922 lecture trip to China won the Journal of Women’s History Biennial Best Article Prize for 2017-18.

King recently edited Culinary Nationalism in Asia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), a collection of comparative studies of culinary nationalism in East, Southeast, and South Asia, and a special issue of Global Food History (Summer 2020) on culinary regionalism in China. Her first book, Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford University Press, 2014), placed cross-cultural critiques of female infanticide in China in critical perspective. Her work has appeared in Food and Foodways, Global Food History, Gastronomica, Journal of Women’s History, Social History, and other publications.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• <a href="https://history.unc.edu/graduate-student/ruochen-cao/" Ruochen Cao(Co-advised with Erik Gellman)
• <a href="https://history.unc.edu/graduate-student/zhelun-zhou/" Zhelun Zhou(Co-advised with Michael Tsin)
• Xinong Wang (Co-advised with Michael Tsin)
• Donald Santacaterina (PhD ’22-’23)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 285—Twentieth-Century China
• HIST 284—Late Imperial China
• HIST 550—Gender in Chinese History
• HNRS 353—The Cultural History of Food in China
• HIST 398—China Bound: Western Travel Writing on China

Notable Publications:

• “Say No to Bat Fried Rice: Changing the Narrative of Coronavirus and Chinese Food,” in Food and Foodways 28.3 (Fall 2020), 237-49
• “What is ‘Chinese’ Food? Historicizing the Concept of Culinary Regionalism,” in Global Food History 6.2 (Summer 2020), pp. 89-109
• Editor, Culinary Nationalism in Asia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
• “The Julia Child of Chinese Cooking, or the Fu Pei-mei of French Food?: Comparative Contexts of Female Culinary Celebrity,” in Gastronomica 18.1 (February 2018), pp. 15-26
• “Margaret Sanger in Translation: Gender, Class and Birth Control in 1920s China” in Journal of Women’s History 29.3 (Fall 2017), pp. 61-83
• Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford University Press, 2014)
• “Working With/In the Archive,” in Research Methods for History, ed. Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), 13–29
• “Replicating the Colonial Expert: The Problem of Translation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Straits Settlements” in Social History 34.4 (November 2009), 428–46

Lauren Jarvis

Pauli Murray Hall 501
ljarvis@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: W 1:00-2:30pm, F 9:15-10:45 am and by appointment
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

I am a social and cultural historian, interested in religion and economic inequality in South Africa. My first book is A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church. It follows the famous prophet Isaiah Shembe (c. 1868-1935) across the places he lived, visited, and learned to avoid to show how he became an emblem of a rapidly changing South Africa.

Studying Shembe offered a window into how rural South Africans rallied around a leader who modeled a different distribution of resources than many of his contemporaries. This observation spurred my interest in charting other ways that people have pushed for a fairer distribution of resources in South Africa’s past. My next book project will trace the shifting ways that Africans pursued economic equality (or something closer to it) from 1800 through the present. These pursuits ranged from strategies of mobility and appeals to imperial officials to, later, the transnational activism of the anti-apartheid movement. This book aims to show how, for two centuries, Africans have shaped debates about economic inequality by the movement of bodies, words, and ideas across borders.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Laura Cox
• Kaela Thuney (Co-advised with Lisa A. Lindsay)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 130 – Twentieth Century Africa
• HIST 279 – Modern South Africa
• HIST 534 – African Diaspora

Notable Publications:

• A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church (Michigan State University Press 2024)
• “Popular Christianity and Populist Politics in Southern Africa” Religious Studies Review 49:1 (March 2023): 7-9.
• “A Not-so-Zulu Zion: Ethnicity and Belonging in Isaiah Shembe’s Nazaretha Church,” Journal of Southern African Studies 47:6 (2021): 1083-1098.
• “The Nazaretha, Zionists, and Other Rebels in Segregated South Africa,” Oxford Handbook of South African History, ed. Daniel Magaziner (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 1-14.

Konrad H. Jarausch

502 Hamilton Hall
jarausch@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: MW 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Konrad H. Jarausch has written or edited about forty books in modern German and European history. Starting with Hitler’s seizure of power and the First World War, his research interests have moved to the social history of German students and professions German unification in 1989/90, with historiography under the Communist GDR, the nature of the East German dictatorship, as well as the debate about historians and the Third Reich. More recently, he has been concerned with the problem of interpreting twentieth-century German history in general, the learning processes after 1945, the issue of cultural democratization, and the relationship between Honecker and Breshnew.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Till Knobloch
• Maddie James (Co-Advised with Karen Hagemann)
• Kenneth Negy
• Caroline Nilsen

Courses Offered:

• HIST 159—Twentieth-Century Europe
• HIST 462—Germany, 1815–1918
• HIST 469—European Social History, 1815–1970
• HIST 771—Readings in Nineteenth-Century European History
• HIST 746—History and the Social Sciences
• HIST 924—Seminar in Modern European History

Notable Publications:

• Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2015), 880 pp.
• Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press, 2011)
• “Das stille Sterben…”: Feldpostbriefe von Konrad Jarausch aus Polen und Russland (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2008)
• Gebrochene Wissenschaftskulturen : Universität und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010)
• Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories (Princeton University Press, 2002)

Karen Hagemann

562 Hamilton Hall
hagemann@unc.edu
Office Hours: T/R 11:00 am – 12:00 pm via Zoom or by email appointment
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

Research Interests:

Karen Hagemann teaches Modern German and European history, military history and women’s and gender history from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Her most recent monograph Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory was published with Cambridge University Press in 2015 and won the Hans Rosenberg Prize for the best book in Central European History in 2016 by the Central European History Society. A German edition titled Umkämpftes Gedächtnis: Die Antinapoleonischen Kriege in der deutschen Erinnerung was published in 2019 with Schöningh. The volume Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements, coedited with Donna Harsch and Friederike Brühöfener, was published by Berghahn Books in the spring 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600, coedited with Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose, was published by Oxford University Press in the fall 2020 and won the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award for Reference Work. Currently she is working on a monograph titled Forgotten Soldiers: Women, the Military and War in European History, 1600-2000 to be published in German and English.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Maddie James (Co-Advised with Konrad H. Jarausch)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 072-001—First Year Seminar: Women’s Voices: 20th Century European History in the Female Memory
• HIST/EURO 252—Politics, Society and Culture in Modern Germany (1871–1945)
• HIST/WMST 259—Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe
• HIST/PWAD 354—War and Gender in Movies
• HIST 398—Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Female Experience and Memory
• HIST/WMST 500—Gender, Race and Nation in Europe and Beyond, 18th-20th C.
• HIST/PWAD/WMST 517—Gender, Military, and War in Comparative Perspective
• HIST/WMST 725—Comparative/Global Gender History: Gender History and the History of Masculinity in Comparative and Global Perspective
• HIST/WMST 730— Feminist and Gender Theory for Historians
• HIST 742—History and Memory: An Introduction into Theory, Methodology, and Research
• HIST/WMST 770— Readings in European Women’s and Gender History

Notable Publications:

• Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600, ed. with Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• Umkämpftes Gedächtnis: Die Antinapoleonischen Kriege in der deutschen Erinnerung (Schöningh, 2019)
• Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements, ed. with Donna Harsch and Friederike Brühöfener (Berghahn Books, 2019)
• War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions, ed. with Alan Forrest and Michael Rowe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Halbtags oder Ganztags: Zeitpolitiken von Kinderbetreuung und Schule nach 1945 im europäischen Vergleich, ed. with Konrad H. Jarausch (Beltz-Juventa, 2015)

Joseph T. Glatthaar

504 Hamilton Hall
jtg@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm and by appointment

Personal Website

Research Interests:

Joseph Glatthaar specializes and teaches courses in the American Civil War and American military history on the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Tom Scovel (Co-Advised with Wayne Lee)
• Kip DiEugenio (Co-advised with Wayne Lee)

Courses Offered:

HIST 127 – American to 1865
HIST 368 – War and American Society to 1903
HIST 369 – War and American Society, 1903 to Present

Notable Publications:

• American Military History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee (UNC Press, 2011)
• General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (New York: The Free Press, 2008)
• Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians in the American Revolution, with James Kirby Martin (New York: Hill & Wang, 2006)
• The Civil War in the West, 1863–1865 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing Co., 2001)
• Partners in Command: Relationships Between Civil War Leaders (New York: The Free Press, 1994; Paperback edition The Free Press, 1996)
• Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers (New York: The Free Press, 1990; Paperback edition by Meridian, 1991; Paperback edition Louisiana State University Press, 1998)

Lisa A. Lindsay

513 Pauli Murray [Hamilton] Hall
lalindsa@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: On Leave Spring 2024
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Lisa Lindsay’s research centers on the social history of West Africa, particularly Nigeria, and on links between Africa and other parts of the world. Focusing on gender, labor, slavery, migration, and biography, she endeavors to understand large-scale processes through human-scale experiences and to attend to African particularities as well as points of larger comparison and connection. Her most recent book, Atlantic Bonds, is the contextualized biography of a South Carolina freedman who in the 1850s migrated to modern-day Nigeria, making trans-Atlantic connections that his descendants and their American relatives maintain to this day. It won the African Studies Association’s prize for the best book published that year in any field of African studies. Her current research concerns women and gender in the Atlantic slave trade, especially from the Bight of Benin. Professor Lindsay’s research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Kaela Thuney (Co-advised with Lauren Jarvis)
• Nancy Andoh

Courses Offered:

• HIST 83—FYS: African History through Popular Music
• HIST 130 – Modern Africa
• HIST 243 – The United States and Africa
• HIST 278 – The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
• HIST 398 – The Atlantic Slave Trade: A View From the Sources
• HIST 721 – Atlantic History, 1400-1800

Notable Publications:

• Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa (UNC Press, 2017)
• Randy M. Browne, Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet, “Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography,” Slavery & Abolition 43, 1 (2021): 40-67
• “Biography in African History,” History in Africa 44 (2017): 11-26
• “The Autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn, from African Captive to Liberian Missionary,” Slavery and Abolition 37, 2 (2016): 446- 471
• “Extraversion, Creolization, and Dependency in the Atlantic Slave Trade,” Journal of African History 55, 2 (2014): 135-145
• Biography and the Black Atlantic, co-edited with John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
• Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Prentice Hall, 2008)
• Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003)
• Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, co-edited with Stephan Miescher (Heinemann, 2003)

Benjamin Waterhouse

473 Pauli Murray Hall
waterhou@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: MW 10:00am-11:30am
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

Research Interests:

Benjamin Waterhouse is a historian of modern America. His scholarly research focuses on the culture and politics of business in the United States, especially since the mid-twentieth century. He supervises graduate students in fields related to business history, labor history, economic culture, and American politics since World War II. At UNC, Waterhouse offers courses in American business history, modern U.S. social and political history, the history of capitalism, and the history of finance and financial crises. His work has appeared in Aeon.co, Financial History, and Jacobin, among other outlets, and he has contributed several book reviews and op-eds to The Washington Post.

His first book, Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Princeton University Press, 2014) examined the role of large, national business associations—and their lobbyists—in shaping economic policy and conservative politics between the 1960s and the 1990s. His second book, The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States (Simon & Schuster, 2017), provided a synthetic treatment of American business, labor, and politics from the colonial period until the 2008 Financial Crisis. His third book, One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America (W. W. Norton, 2024), explores how so many Americans came to believe that self-employment was the key not only to personal fulfillment but also to national economic growth.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Luca Azuma (Co-advised with Molly Worthen)
• Julia Fournier (Co-advised with Katherine Turk)
• Will Raby
• Cristian Roberto Walk(Co-advised with Erik Gellman)

Courses Offered:

• HIST 129 – Modern America, 1984 – 2024
• HIST 289 – America in the 1970s
• HIST 364 – The History of American Business
• HIST 372 – Politics and Society Since the New Deal
• HIST 398 – American Political History in the Twentieth Century (undergraduate research seminar)
• HIST 489 – The History of the 2008 Financial Crisis
• HIST 728 – Graduate Colloquium in American History Since 1865
• HIST 880 – Global History of Capitalism, Graduate Seminar

Notable Publications:

• One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America (W.W. Norton, 2024)
• The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States (Simon & Schuster, 2017). Translated and Published in Chinese by CITIC Press as 美国商业简史 (2019)
• Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Princeton University Press, 2014)
• “Donald Trump,” University of Virginia Miller Center, U.S. Presidents, https://millercenter.org/president/trump (October 2022)
• “The Small Business Myth,” Aeon.co, November 2017

Kathleen DuVal

466 Pauli Murray Hall
duval@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: MW 2:30-4:00 pm and by appointment
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

Research Interests:

Kathleen DuVal’s research focuses on early America, particularly how various Native American, European, and African women and men interacted from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries.

Graduate Students:

• This faculty member is not accepting applicants for the 2023-2024 cycle
• Skye Brenner (Co-Advised with Katherine Turk)
• Nicholas Sifford (Co-Advised with Antwain Hunter)
• Frankie Bauer (Co-Advised with Daniel Cobb)

Courses Offered:

• HIST/AMST 110—Native North America
• HIST 124–U.S. History Through Film
• HIST 127—History of the United States to 1865
• HIST 355—American Women’s History to 1865
• HIST 237—The American Colonial Experience (previously HIST 561)
• HIST 238—Revolution and Nation-Making in America, 1763-1815 (previously HIST 564)
• HIST 398—Cultural Encounters in Early America
• HIST 691—Honors in History
• HIST 692—Honors in History
• HIST 726—Readings in Early American History

Notable Publications:

• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (forthcoming, Random House, April 2024)
• Give Me Liberty!, 7th edition, co-authored with Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr (Norton, 2022)
• Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (Random House, 2015)
• Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America, co-edited with John DuVal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)
• The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (Early American Studies Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
• “Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana,” William and Mary Quarterly 65 (April 2008), 267–304
• “Cross-Cultural Crime and Osage Justice in the Western Mississippi Valley,” Ethnohistory (Fall 2007), 697–722
• “Debating Identity, Sovereignty, and Civilization: The Arkansas Valley after the Louisiana Purchase,” Journal of the Early Republic (Spring 2006), 25–59

Peter A. Coclanis

419 Hamilton Hall
coclanis@unc.edu
919-843-6300
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Peter A. Coclanis is an economic historian who works on questions relating broadly to economic development in various parts of the world from the seventeenth century CE to the present. He has published widely in U.S. economic history, Southeast Asian economic history, and global economic history. He also writes frequently for newspapers and magazines on contemporary issues ranging from political economy to culture to sports.

Graduate Students:

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

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Claude A. Clegg III

210 Battle Hall
cclegg@email.unc.edu
919-962-2347
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

Research Interests:

Claude Clegg holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies. His research and teaching focus on African American history, US and southern history, social movements, and the US presidency. Professor Clegg has been featured in media outlets such as NPR’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” and C-SPAN’s “Cities Tour,” and his books have been reviewed in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Journal of American History, and other venues. Professor Clegg recently completed a book on the Obama presidency and is currently writing a biography of Marcus Garvey.

Graduate Students:

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

Courses Offered:

HIST 244: History of the American Presidency
AAAD 257: Black Nationalism in the United States
AAAD 130: Introduction to African American & Diaspora Studies

Notable Publications:

The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).

The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad (1997; reprint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2014)

The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010)

Editor. Africa and the African American Imagination (ProQuest and Schomburg Studies of the Black Experience, 2007)