Dr. Michael Thompson has been selected to the 2022-2023 All-Southern Conference Faculty and Staff Team.
Faculty Updates Fall 2022
Check out what the incredibly accomplished faculty members of the UTC Department of History have been up to!
Dr. Mike Thompson’s New Article on Disease and Racial Politics in Times of COVID-19
UC Foundation Association Professor and Department Head Michael Thompson’s recent article on “The Wages of Acclimation: Presumed Black Immunity to Yellow Fever and the Racial Politics of Burial Labour in 1855 Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia,” was published in a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal Human Remains and Violence on “Burial and the Politics of Dead Bodies in Times of COVID-19.”
Faculty News and Updates Fall 2021
The UTC Department of History is comprised of distinguished faculty members whose scholarship and teaching contribute to the advancement of knowledge in a variety of fields. Check out some of their recent accomplishments here.
Scenic Roots Interview on RISE MLK + People’s History Walking Tours
On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Program Susan Eckelmann Berghel and History Department Head Mike Thompson were guests on the WUTC show “Scenic Roots,” where they discussed the RISE MLK + People’s History Walking Tours being held this October and November.