Part-Time Faculty

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Dr. Amanda Bellows
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Amanda Bellows studies the history of the United States in comparative and transnational perspective. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Global Slavery, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, the Journal of the Civil War Era, the Southern Humanities Review, the New York Times, Talking Points Memo, and the books New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War and Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Research interests:

U.S. and Russian history, comparative and transnational slavery/emancipation, the Civil War era, memory, literature, art, and popular culture.

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Post-Emancipation Representations of Serfs, Peasants, Slaves, and Freedpeople in Russian and American National Art, 1861—1905.” New Literary Observer/Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 6/2016: 7-25

“Selling Servitude, Captivating Consumers: Images of Bondsmen in American and Russian Advertisements, 1880—1915.” Journal of Global Slavery, 1/1: 72-112 (2016).

Book Contributions

“How the Civil War Created Football,” in The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War. Edited by Ted Widmer. New York: Oxford University Press, 331-334.

“No Language Like Song,” in Disunion: Modern Scholars and Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln’s Election to the Emancipation Proclamation. Edited by Ted Widmer. New York: New York Times and Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2013, 205-208.

Web-Based Publications

“The First Great African-American Filmmaker: Before Spike Lee and John Singleton, there was Oscar Micheaux,” Talking Points Memo, August 18, 2016, available here.

“How the Civil War Created College Football,” New York Times, January 2, 2016, available here.

“Author, Author!” New York Times, March 16, 2016, available here.

“No Language Like Song,” New York Times, September 16, 2011, available here.

 Luke A.L. Reynolds
Ph.D. Candidate in European History at the CUNY Graduate Center

Research and teaching interests:

Luke Reynolds is a Ph.D. Candidate in European History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His areas of interest are the social, cultural, imperial, and military histories of Great Britain in the nineteenth century. He is currently at work on his dissertation "Wellington's Veterans: The British Officer Corps in the Pax Britannica." He teaches History 151 and 122.

Personal website:

www.lukealreynolds.com