{"id":1971,"date":"2020-09-11T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:12:42","slug":"faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

***<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Department of History<\/a>\u00a0is made up of an impressive and accomplished group of\u00a0faculty<\/a>.\u00a0 Read about some of their recent accomplishments below.<\/h3>\n
\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof. Eddie Brudney’s Article and Publications<\/h3>\n

Prof. Eddie Brudney<\/a> published an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0entitled \u201c(P)Reimagining the Nation: Citizenship, Labor, and the State in Ant\u00f3nio Ribeiro Sanches\u2019s\u00a0Cartas sobre a educa\u00e7\u00e3o da mocidade<\/em>\u201d in\u00a0Luso-Brazilian Review\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Vol. 57, no. 1, 2020). \u00a0Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also contributed to a series of posts on non-tenure track labor<\/a> and working in academia during COVID-19<\/a> for the blog LaborOnline<\/em><\/a> (the blog for the Labor and Working-Class History Association<\/a>).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof. Susan Eckelmann Berghel Promoted<\/h3>\n

Prof. Susan Eckelmann Berghel<\/a> was awarded tenure and promoted to the tank of Associate Professor.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof. Fang Yu Hu’s Research and Teaching<\/h3>\n

Prof. Fang Yu Hu<\/a> spent the summer working on her current book manuscript, \u201cGood Wife, Wise Mother\u201d: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls in the Japanese Empire, 1895-1945″ and will present her research to the public in the near future.<\/p>\n

She also reported on the work she did over the summer to prepare to teach online this fall:<\/p>\n

I worked on course syllabi for the coming academic year. I have designed my course, HIST 3640 Modern Japan, to be conducted completely online in the midst of the pandemic. I am excited to incorporate amazing podcast episodes and non-textual sources into this course on Japan. I hope that these new materials will encourage class engagement as we conduct the class online. Additionally, I received a 2020-21 Affordable Course Materials Initiative Grant from the UTC library to redesign my course syllabus for Hist 1120 World History from 1400 to Present. There will be no textbook as the course will rely on primary and secondary sources available through UTC Library and the internet at no financial cost to the students.<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof. Carey McCormack’s Book Chapter<\/h3>\n

Prof. Carey McCormack<\/a>‘s chapter on \u201cDiscovery and Patriarchy: Professionalization of Botany and the Distancing of Women and \u2018Others,\u2019\u201d was included in a volume on Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change<\/em><\/a>, edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennet, published with UNC Press.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof. Kira Robison’s Book and Article<\/h3>\n

Prof. Kira Robison<\/a>‘s book, \u00a0Healers in the Making<\/em><\/a>: Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550)<\/em>, part of Brill\u2019s The Medieval Mediterranean<\/a> Series, will be published in 2021.<\/p>\n

She also published an article, \u201cFor the Benefit of Students<\/a>: Memory and Anatomical Learning in the Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries\u201d in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>75:2 (2020), 135\u2013150.<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof. Mike Thompson’s Summer Research<\/h3>\n

Prof. Mike Thompson<\/a> reports on the research he did over the summer:<\/p>\n

This Summer I joined several History Department colleagues for a 12-week virtual writing group, during which I made significant progress on a journal article tentatively titled \u201cThe Wages of Acclimation: Presumed Black Immunity to Yellow Fever and the Politics of Burial Labor in 1855 Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia.\u201d This article chronicles the labor and life of Bob Butt, an enslaved gravedigger in late antebellum Portsmouth, who parlayed the purported immunity of his black body to seize privileges ranging from substantial wages and geographic mobility to local celebrity and nearly his freedom. This noteworthy episode demonstrates that black labor\u2014though not always black suffering or lives\u2014mattered more than ever to distressed white officials managing ravaged and depopulated crucibles of mass illness and death. Black workers like Bob Butt were no mere tools for safeguarding besieged white wealth and health, however, as they often risked torment and death to capitalize on urban employers\u2019 desperation for their essential labor. Laid bare is a long national history of racial and socioeconomic divergence between those who possessed the liberty and means to take shelter or flight from infection, and those compelled to remain exposed and exploitable. As we begin the Fall 2020 semester, I\u2019m looking forward to completing and submitting this journal article!<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a>Prof. Annie Tracy Samuel’s Presentation<\/h3>\n

Prof. Annie Tracy Samuel<\/a> delivered an invited talk to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in July 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Department of History\u00a0is made up of an impressive and accomplished group of\u00a0faculty.\u00a0 Read about some of their recent accomplishments below.<\/p>\n

Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[93878,92857,91881,35044,83560,93516,93763,70357],"class_list":{"0":"post-1971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faculty-news","8":"tag-annie-tracy-samuel","9":"tag-carey-mccormack","10":"tag-edward-brudney","11":"tag-faculty-news","12":"tag-fang-yu-hu","13":"tag-kira-robison","14":"tag-michael-thompson","15":"tag-susan-eckelmann-berghel","16":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\nFaculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020 - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020 - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a0Department of History\u00a0is made up of an impressive and accomplished group of\u00a0faculty.\u00a0 Read about some of their recent accomplishments below. Continue Reading\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-11T18:18:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-26T15:12:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1421\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1459\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Annie Tracy Samuel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Annie Tracy Samuel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/\",\"name\":\"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020 - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-11T18:18:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-26T15:12:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#\/schema\/person\/4cb2de14c47c5d32016e0aa106c38014\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg\",\"width\":1247,\"height\":1280},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/\",\"name\":\"History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\",\"description\":\"The UTC History Department\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#\/schema\/person\/4cb2de14c47c5d32016e0aa106c38014\",\"name\":\"Annie Tracy Samuel\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bb90bd9065cdf4ac861455da8ba4149ac103233c623a81f9021e45f07d366177?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bb90bd9065cdf4ac861455da8ba4149ac103233c623a81f9021e45f07d366177?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Annie Tracy Samuel\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/author\/njt969\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020 - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020 - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","og_description":"The\u00a0Department of History\u00a0is made up of an impressive and accomplished group of\u00a0faculty.\u00a0 Read about some of their recent accomplishments below. Continue Reading","og_url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/","og_site_name":"History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","article_published_time":"2020-09-11T18:18:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-26T15:12:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1421,"height":1459,"url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Annie Tracy Samuel","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Annie Tracy Samuel","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/","url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/","name":"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020 - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg","datePublished":"2020-09-11T18:18:34+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-26T15:12:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#\/schema\/person\/4cb2de14c47c5d32016e0aa106c38014"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/files\/2020\/09\/CrestClrRGB.jpg","width":1247,"height":1280},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/faculty-updates-summer-and-fall-2020\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Faculty Updates Summer and Fall 2020"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/","name":"History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025","description":"The UTC History Department","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#\/schema\/person\/4cb2de14c47c5d32016e0aa106c38014","name":"Annie Tracy Samuel","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bb90bd9065cdf4ac861455da8ba4149ac103233c623a81f9021e45f07d366177?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bb90bd9065cdf4ac861455da8ba4149ac103233c623a81f9021e45f07d366177?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Annie Tracy Samuel"},"url":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/author\/njt969\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}