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Professor of History (2002)
B.A., Cornell, 1990; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA, 1992, 1999
Teaching and
Research Interests: Modern Britain, Comparative World,
Early China-British Relations
Upper Division
Courses:
- HIST
3431 England Since 1603
- HIST 3434 Modern
European Thought
- HIST 4333 Colonial
Experience I: Europe
- HIST 4337 Technology
and the Historian
- HIST 5339 Modern
Britain
Website:
www.georgiasouthern.edu/~batchelo
Contact
Information:
Department
of History
P.O. Box 8054
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054
912- 478-5607
batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu
Selected
Publications
- "Crying
a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century
Banten and England"
in Peter Mancall, ed., Collecting Across Cultures
(Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania
Press, Forthcoming).
- "On the Movement
of Porcelains: Rethinking the Birth of the Consumer Society as
Interactions of Exchange Networks, China and Britain, 1600-1750,"
in John Brewer and Frank Trentmann, eds., Consuming
Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational
Exchanges, (Oxford: Berg, 2006).
- "Binary
as Transcultural Technology: Leibniz,
mathesis universalis
and the Yijing," in David
Glimp and Michelle Warren, eds. Arts
of Calculation: Numerical Thought in Early Modern Europe
(New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
- "Concealing
the Bounds: Imagining the British Nation Through China,"
in Felicity Nussbaum, ed. The
Global Eighteenth Century, (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins,
2003).
Professional
Activities, Honors, and Awards:
- Georgia
Humanities Council Project Grant, 2009
- Southern Coastal
Humanities Consortium (Founding Member)
- Georgia
Southern Faculty Research Grant, 2006
- Georgia
Southern Faculty Research Grant, 2006
- Georgia
Southern Faculty Teaching Grant, 2005
- Georgia
Southern Faculty Research Grant, 2003
Current
Research:
- "London:
The Making of a Global City" - Book project about the role
of London's encounter with China between the mid sixteenth and
the eighteenth centuries in shaping the city's rise to prominence.
- The Waddie
Welcome Archive, a donation and on-line archive of 1000 photographs
of hand-painted African-American small business signs in Savannah,
GA to Henderson Library,
Georgia Southern University. Grant
received from the Georgia Humanities Council, 2008 with others
in progress.
- "Open
Sea: Reflections from
a Port City 20 years after Tiananmen," Video
and sculptural installation, SPACE Gallery, Department of Cultural
Affairs, Savannah,
May-June 2009.
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