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Associate 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
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HIST 3434 Modern European Thought
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HIST 4333
Colonial Experience I: Europe
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HIST 4337 Technology and the Historian
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HIST
5339 Modern Britain
Website: www.georgiasouthern.edu/~batchelo
Office Hours for Fall 2008: TTH 1:00-2:00, or by appointment
Contact
Information:
Department of History
P.O. Box
8054
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054
912-
478-5607
batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu
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)
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Georgia Southern Faculty Research Grant,
2006
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Georgia Southern Faculty Teaching Grant,
2005
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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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