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Professor Bruce Baker

Professor of American History and African American Studies

  • Email: bruce.baker@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: 0191 208 3636
  • Personal Website:
  • Address: School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
    Armstrong Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
    UNITED KINGDOM
Background

Introduction

I joined the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology in September 2013.  Most of my teaching and research centres on the American South between the Civil War and the 1920s. 


Qualifications

Ph.D. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003

M.A. in Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995

B.A. in English, Clemson University, 1992

B.A. in English, Clemson University, 1992


Previous Positions

2019-2022, Reader in American History, 缅北禁地

2013-2019, Lecturer in Modern American History, 缅北禁地

2004-2013, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in United States History, Royal Holloway, University of London

2004, Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Superior

2003, Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research

Current Research

My current research focuses on Black abolitionists in Britain and Ireland, especially Moses Roper (see this article in Slavery and Abolition from 2022: ).  For more about my current research, see my website: .


Research Supervision

I would be interested in supervising research students in any area I have done research, especially race relations, Reconstruction, labor history, and business history, especially the cotton industry.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Sweeney F, Baker BE. . Slavery and Abolition 2022, 43(3), 632-667.
    • Baker B. . Southern Cultures 2015, 21(4), 81-94.
    • Baker BE. . Tennessee Historical Quarterly 2014, 72(4), 289-300.
    • Baker BE. . Southern Cultures 2010, 16(4), 21-40.
    • Baker BE. . Southern Cultures 2009, 15(1), 69-81.
    • Baker BE. . American Nineteenth Century History 2005, 6(3), 273-293.
    • Baker BE. . Southern Cultures 2003, 9(1), 82-91.
    • Baker BE. . Labor History 1999, 40(3), 261-282.

  • Authored Books

    • Emberton C, Baker BE, Brundage WF. . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.
    • Baker BE, Hahn B. . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016.
    • Baker BE, Kelly B, Smith JD. . University Press of Florida, 2013.
    • Baker BE. . London: Continuum, 2008.

  • Book Chapters

    • Baker BE. . In: Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017, pp.262-280.
    • Baker BE. . In: Baker, BE, Kelly, B, ed. After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South. Florida: University Press of Florida, 2013, pp.159-175.
    • Baker BE. . In: W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed. Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory and Southern Identity. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, pp.319-346.

  • Edited Book

    • Baker BE, ed. . South Carolina, USA: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.

  • Reviews

    • Baker BE. . American Historical Review 2022, 127(3), 1528-1529.
    • Baker BE. . Journal of Southern History 2020, 86(3), 601-624.

  • Working Paper

    • Baker BE. . 2005.