Bruce E. Baker, Senior Lecturer in United States History

• Introduction
• Contact Information
• Curriculum Vitae
• Teaching
• Research
• Personal interests

 

 

Introduction

I am a senior lecturer in U.S. history at Royal Holloway, University of London, a post I took up in 2004. My research focuses on the American South between the Civil War and World War Two, with particular interests in folk culture, historical memory, racial violence, and working-class life, including labour organisation.

Contact Information

• Mailing address: Bruce E. Baker / Department of History / Royal Holloway, University of London / Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, ENGLAND
• Email: bruce.baker@rhul.ac.uk
• Phone: +44 (0)1784 443207
• Fax: +44 (0)1784 433032

Curriculum Vitae

Click

• here for a brief c.v. in html format, or
• here for a full c.v. in pdf format.

Teaching

• Courses
  • HS1008: Doing History (Part II) (Spring 2009)
  • Reading Excerpts from Hall, et al., Like a Family
  • Like_A_Family.pdf
  • Like_A_Family_2.pdf
  • Listening Excerpts on Greensboro Massacre
  • chinagrove-1.mp3
  • chinagrove-2.mp3
  • HS2217: History of the USA, 1787-1877 (half-unit) (Autumn 2008)
    • course description
    • syllabus on Moodle (contact me for password if needed)
  • HS2268: History and Memory in the United States
    • course description
    • syllabus on Moodle (contact me for password if needed)
  • HS3294: Reconstruction, Land, and Labour in the United States
    • course description
    • syllabus on Moodle (contact me for password if needed)
  • HS5750: Violence in the American South (Spring 2009)
    • course description
    • syllabus on Moodle (contact me for password if needed)
• Resources
• Information on Writing Essays
• Guide to Essay Comments

Research

My past research has included such topics as the folklore surrounding lynchings, the cultural politics of early country music, rural labour organisations in the post-Reconstruction South, social memory of lynching, and social memory of Reconstruction. Geographically, my work has centred on South Carolina and North Carolina.

Please choose one of the following options to learn more about my work:

• Books
• Papers available to read
• Research in progress
• Research interests (misc.)

For a complete list of my publications and presentations, please see the long version of my c.v.

Personal Interests

Here is a page of things relating to my interests in music.

Here are some comments on the best of what I've been reading lately.