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Marcus Bull

July 20, 2017

Marcus Bull

471 Hamilton Hall
mgbull@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: M 11:00 am – 12:00 pm and W 12:30-2:30pm, by appointment
Curriculum Vitae


Research Interests:

Marcus Bull’s research focuses on the narratology of historical texts from the central medieval period to the sixteenth century, an interest that informs his most recent book: Eyewitness and Crusade Narrative: Perception and Narration in Accounts of the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2018). He is currently engaged in two book projects: a study of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565, with particular reference to the ways in which its representations in word and image sought to capture what participants were believed to have experienced in person; and an exploration of experience, memory, the play of social scripts and self-construction in the memoirs of Pierre de Bourdeille, better known as Brantôme.

Graduate Students:

Courses Offered:

  • HIST 89—History and Myth in Film
  • HIST 107—Introduction to Medieval History
  • HIST 108-Introduction to Early Medieval History
  • HIST 229-History of London 43-1666
  • HIST 398—Seeing the Past: Eyewitness and Autobiographical Narratives Since the Middle Ages
  • HIST 434—Medieval England
  • HIST 437—Aristocratic Culture in the Central Middle Ages
  • HIST 438—Medieval Masculinities
  • HIST 701—Introduction to Medieval Studies
  • HIST 890—Historiography and Narrative

Notable Publications:

  • Eyewitness and Crusade Narration: Perception and Narration in Accounts of the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2018)
  • Co-editor, Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2014)
  • Co-editor, The Historia Iherosolimitana of Robert the Monk (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2013)
  • Co-editor, Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century, Proceedings of the British Academy, 170, (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 2011)
  • Thinking Medieval: An Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2005)
  • Co-editor, The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2005)
  • Co-editor, The Experience of Crusading: Western Approaches. Presented to Jonathan Riley-Smith on his 65th Birthday (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 2003)
  • Editor, France in the Central Middle Ages 900–1200, The Short Oxford History of France (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2002)
  • The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation (Boydell; Woodbridge, 1999)
  • Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony c.970–c.1130 (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 1993)

Chad Bryant

July 20, 2017

Chad Bryant

468 Hamilton Hall
bryantc@email.unc.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Curriculum Vitae


Research Interests:

Chad Bryant’s interests include nationalism and the urban experience in modern Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the lands of today’s Czech Republic. His most recent book focuses on the capital city of Prague and questions of belonging in the modern era. He is, with Kateřina Čapková and Diana Dumitru, completing a study of the Stalinist-era show trials in Czechoslovakia.

Graduate Students:

Courses Offered:

  • HIST 101 — A History of Lies, Conspiracies, and Misinformation
  • HIST 140—The World Since 1945
  • HIST 260 – From Kings to Communists: East-Central Europe in the Modern Era
  • HNRS 353 – Magic Prague? Biographies of a Central European City
  • HIST 398 – Boom Cities: Urban Histories of a Modernizing Age, 1870-1914
  • HIST 783—An Introduction to Russian and East European History
  • HIST 784—Readings in East European History

    • Notable Publications:

    • Prague: Belonging and the Modern City (Harvard University Press, 2021)
    • Co-editor, with Arthur Burns and Paul Readman, Walking Histories, 1800-1914 (Palgrave, 2016)
    • Co-editor, with Paul Readman and Cynthia Radding, Borderlands in World History, 1700-1914 (Palgrave, 2014)
    • Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 2007)
    • “Habsburg History, Eastern European History… Central European History?” Central European History 51:1 (2018): 1-15
    • “War as Revolution of the Self: The Diaries of Vojtěch Berger” Střed/Centre 8:2 (2016): 9-34
    • “Zap’s Prague: The City, the Nation, and Czech Elites before 1848,” Urban History 40, 2 (May 2013): 181-201

    W. Fitzhugh Brundage

    July 20, 2017

    W. Fitzhugh Brundage

    511 Hamilton Hall
    brundage@email.unc.edu
    Office Hours: M 9:30-11:30am and by appointment
    Curriculum Vitae
    Personal Website


    Research Interests:

    W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s general research interests are American history since the Civil War, with a particular focus on the American South. He has written on lynching, utopian socialism in the New South, white and black historical memory in the South since the Civil War, and the history of torture in the United States from the time of European contact to the twenty-first century. His current research project is a study of Civil War prisoner of war camps.

    Graduate Students:

    Courses Offered:

    • HIST 114—American History and Film
    • HIST 125—The Social History of Popular Music in Twentieth Century America

    Notable Publications:

    • Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition (Belknap Press, 2018)
    • Editor, Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
    • The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Harvard University Press, 2008)
    • Editor, Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Regional Identity in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
    • A Socialist Utopia: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901 (University of Illinois Press, 1996)
  • Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 1993)

    • William L. Barney

    July 20, 2017

    William L. Barney

    462 Hamilton Hall
    wbarney@email.unc.edu
    Office Hours: by appointment


    Research Interests:

    Professor Barney’s research focuses on the nineteenth-century U.S., especially the antebellum South. He is currently researching a book on the cultural and economic politics of secession.

    Graduate Students:

    Courses Offered:

    • HIST 127—United States History to 1865
    • HIST 128—United States History Since 1865
    • HIST 565—Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848–1877
    • HIST 834—The Middle Period, 1815–1860
    • HIST 840—Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860–1876

    Notable Publications:

    • The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion (Oxford University Press, 2001)
    • Battleground for the Union: The Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848–1877 (Prentice Hall, Inc., 1990)
    • Passage of the Republic: An Interdisciplinary History of Nineteenth Century America (D.C. Heath, 1987)
    • The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (Princeton University Press, 1974)
    • Flawed Victory: New Perspective on the Civil War (Rowman & Littlefield, 1975)
    • The Road to Secession: A New Perspective on the Old South (Praeger, 1972)

    Cemil Aydin

    July 20, 2017

    Cemil Aydin

    465 Hamilton Hall
    caydin@email.unc.edu
    Office Hours: W 1:30-3:30pm
    Curriculum Vitae
    Personal Website


    Research Interests:

    Cemil Aydin is professor of international/global history. He studied at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul University, and the University of Tokyo before receiving his Ph.D. degree at Harvard University in 2002.

    Graduate Students:

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

    • Yusuf Sezgin
    • Rachel Alexandra Cochran
    • Burak Bulkan(Co-Advisor)
    • Jason Castro (Co-advised with Morgan Pitelka)
    • Charalampos Gappas(Co-Advisor)
    • <a href="https://history.unc.edu/graduate-student/caleb-luck/"Caleb Luck(Co-Advisor)
    • <a href="https://history.unc.edu/graduate-student/abdul-basith-basheer/"Abdul Basith Basheer(Co-Advisor)

    Courses Offered:

    • HIST139 – History of Muslim Societies since 1500
    • HIST140 – The World since 1945
    • HIST174H – Honors Seminar in Asian, African, and Middle Eastern History
    • HIST 488H— History of Muslim Societies since 1500
    • HIST538 – The Middle East and the West

    Notable Publications:

    Cemil Aydin’s publications include Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia (Columbia University Press, 2007) and The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, Spring 2017). His writings on the political history of the world in the long 19th century were published by Harvard University Press in 2018 as part of an edited volume An Emerging Modern World: 1750–1870. He currently serves as the co-editor of Columbia University Press’s book series on International and Global History.

    Karen Auerbach

    July 20, 2017

    Karen Auerbach


    kauerbach@unc.edu

    Curriculum Vitae


    Research Interests:

    Professor Auerbach’s research focuses on the social history of Polish Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Her first book, The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust, published in 2013, is a microhistory of Jewish families who were neighbors in an apartment building in Warsaw after the Holocaust, exploring the reconstruction of communities and identifications in postwar Poland. Her second book, The Nighttime Butterfly: A Young Woman in Warsaw at the Turn of the Century, is under contract with Yale University Press. Professor Auerbach’s other projects include information networks and the history of Yiddish in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust. Her teaching focuses on modern Jewish history, the Holocaust, and East European history.

    Graduate Students:

    Courses Offered:

    • HIST 89-001—First Year Seminar: Diaries, Memoirs, and Testimonies of the Holocaust
    • HIST 153—From Bible to Broadway: Jewish History from Ancient to Modern
    • HIST 190—The Search for Modern Jewish Identity
    • HIST 262—History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews
    • HIST 311H—Ghettos and Shtetls? Urban Life in East European Jewish History
    • HIST 332.001—Identity and Community in Modern Jewish History
    • HIST 481.001—From Communists to Capitalists: Eastern Europe since 1945
    • HIST 485—Modern East European Jewish History and Culture

    Notable Publications:

    • “The Social World of a Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Fin-de-Siècle Warsaw: Religious Change, Polish Culture and National Identity.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Modern History, December 2022.
    • Co-editor, double issue of East European Jewish Affairs: “Yiddish and the City” (with Nick Underwood), volume 50, issues 1/2. September 2020.
    • Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History (editor). Monash University Publishing, 2015
    • The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2013)
    • “Memory of the Holocaust in Recent Polish Historiography.” Association for Jewish Studies Review 35.1. April 2011
    • “Insiders-Outsiders: Poles and Jews in Recent Polish-Jewish Fiction and Autobiography.” Co-author with Antony Polonsky. in Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry, edited by Richard Cohen, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman, 2010


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