J Schermerhorn

Calvin Schermerhorn is a Fulbright Scholar to the U.K. in 2022, where he is researching transatlantic racial economic inequality and searching for African American abolitionist Jacob D. Green, who lived in England in the 1860s. He is based at the University of Nottingham.

He teaches nineteenth-century U.S. and business history. He is author of Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery, The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, and Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South.

He is at heart a teacher and educator dedicated to bringing diverse subjects to life in the classroom, awaking and nurturing students’ passion for history, and opening students to unimagined career possibilities. He’s an eager advisor and mentor for student projects in African American, Southern, nineteenth-century U.S., economic, literary, and business history. He teaches a broad range of courses in African American, Atlantic, and North American history, the early U.S. republic, Civil War and Reconstruction, along with thematic courses on capitalism, forced migration, and global slavery. Arizona State has recognized these contributions with both of its top teaching honors, the Centennial Professorship in 2011 and the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019.

Follow on Twitter @CalScherm and visit https://calscherm.com for links to recent articles and teaching overview.