Faculty -Corey Capers

COREY CAPERS
Curriculum Vitae

Personal:

Current Position:

Assistant Professor
Department of History and African American Studies
: Address:

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Department of History
913 University Hall (M/C 198)
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago , IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 413-1217
Fax: 312-996-5799
E-mail: cncapers@uic.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of California , Santa Cruz , History of Consciousness, 2004

M.A., University of California , Santa Cruz , History of Consciousness, 2002

B.A, Southern Methodist University , History and African American Studies, 1993

Areas of Interest

Colonial British North American and U.S. History to 1830 , Popular Culture and Politics, Print Culture, African American History, Theories of Race and Nationalism , Cultural Studies.

Awards and Fellowships:

Provost's Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University , 2005
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California , 2005 (DECLINED)
Irvine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, University of California , Santa Cruz (UCSC), 2003
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania , 2002
Institute for Humanities Research Travel Grant, UCSC 2001
Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCSC, 1997 – 1999

Publications and Work in Progress:

Dissertation:

Black Voices/ White Print: Race-Making, Satire and the Rhetoric of Disorder in the Early National U.S. North, 1793 – 1824.

In-Progress:

“Race, Printing and Society in Boston 's Early Republic ”
“Beyond the Blackness of Bobalition: Racial Publicity and the Struggle for Order in the North, 1816 – 1824.”

Papers and Presentations:

“The Uses of ‘ Liberty ',” Newberry Library Teacher Summer Program (2006)

“Interdisciplinary Methodologies: A Roundtable,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta , GA 2004.

“Black Masks, White Print and Bobalition: Race, Satire and the Federalist Critique in the Era of Good Feelings,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic , Annual Meeting, Brown University 2004.

“Racing the Carnival: Race, Festive Culture, and the Policing of Public Space in late 18 th -Century New England,” 9 th Annual Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia , PA 2001.

“(Un)Disciplined Subjects: Race, Popular Culture, and Nation in the Early United States ,” 32 nd Annual Conference in Modern Literature, Michigan State University , 1999.

“The African American Academy and Social Practice at the Millennium,” The Ground Together: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Howard University , 1998.

“Excluded from ‘Progress': Industrialism, Social Order, and Gangs Among African Americans and Black South Africans since the Late Nineteenth Century.” 81 st Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Charleston , SC , 1996.

Courses Taught:

A History of Punishment: From Early Modern Europe to the 19 th -Centiury US
Authority, Resistance and Power in Early America
Ritual, Print and Politics: Cultures of Performance in the Early American Republic
African American History to 1834
Colonial British North America
The American Revolution
California History Survey

Professional Experience:

Assistant Professor, Early American History and African American Studies, University of Illinois — Chicago , January 2006.
Postdoctoral Associate, Early American History, Cornell University , 2005.
Instructor, Department of Human Communications, California State University — Monterey Bay , 2001 – 2003.
Program Coordinator, Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, Mental Health Association of Greater Dallas 1994 – 1997.

Department of History