J Schermerhorn
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Coor Hall 4572 975 S. Myrtle Ave. Box 874302 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Calvin Schermerhorn is a Professor teaching and researching American and trans-Atlantic history from the colonial era to the present in 2022 he was a Fulbright Scholar to the U.K. at the University of Nottingham.
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, Civil War, nineteenth-century U.S., 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.
- Ph.D. University of Virginia
- M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School
- B.A. Saint Mary's College of Maryland
African American history, slavery, capitalism, U.S. South, public history, human trafficking in America and the Atlantic world
Courses
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 641 | North American History |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 591 | Seminar |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 130 | The Historian's Craft |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
- We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Corona del Sol High School, Judge (2014 - Present)
- Graduate Committee, History, SHPRS, Member (2014 - Present)
- Doctoral Exam Committee, Examiner (2013 - Present)
- Search Committee, Modern United States Political History, Member (2012 - Present)
- We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Corona del Sol High School, Judge (2012 - Present)
- History Faculty Promotion and Tenure Policy Committee, Member (2012 - Present)
- Road to Disunion: The Geopolitics of Slavery, Political Crisis, and the Onset of Civil War" American History from A to Z, Presidential Engagement Program, ASU Foundation for a New American University., Invited Speaker (2012 - Present)
- "The South, Slavery, and the Rise of King Cotton," Aspire Academy at Connolly Middle School, Tempe, Arizona., Invited Speaker (2012 - Present)
- Journal of the Early Republic, Reviewer (2012 - Present)
- American Nineteenth Century History, Reviewer (2012 - Present)
- Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award Committee, Member (2012 - Present)
- Roger Adelson Graduate Research Award Committee, Chair (2012 - Present)
- Ohio University Press, Manuscript Review (2012 - Present)
- The Public Historian, Peer Reviewer (2010 - Present)
- Committee to Establish a Graduate Field in Global and World History, Member (2008 - Present)
- Committee to establish a Graduate Certificate in Global and World History, Member (2008 - Present)
- Committee to establish a Graduate Certificate in Global and World History, Member (2008 - Present)
- History Department Graduate Committee to establish a graduate field in global and world history, Member (2008 - Present)
- Undergraduate Policy Committee, History Department, Member (2008 - Present)
- Oxford University Press, Outside Reviewer and Reader (2008 - Present)
- Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Editorial Board Member (2014 - 2016)
- Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ark Media for PBS, Professional Historical Consulatant (2014 - 2014)
- Routledge, Manuscript Reviewer (2014 - 2014)
- Carol & Norris Hundley Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Chair (2014 - 2014)
- Personnel Advisory Committee (PAC), Member (2014 - 2014)
- Doctoral Exam Committee, History, SHPRS, Examiner (2013 - 2014)
- Carol and Norris Hundley Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Member (2012 - 2014)
- Journal of Southern History, Peer reviewer (2014 - 2014)
- Journal of Policy History, Peer reviewer (2013 - 2014)
- University of Georgia Press, Manuscript Review (2013 - 2013)
- Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Peer Reviewer (2013 - 2013)
- University Senate, Senator (2011 - 2013)
- Carol & Norris Hundley Award Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Chair (2013 - 2013)
- History Faculty Promotion and Tenure Policy Committee, Member (2012 - 2013)
- History Faculty Promotion and Tenure Policy Committee, Member (2012 - 2013)
- Search Committee, Modern United States Political History, Member (2012 - 2013)
- Ad Hoc Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member (2011 - 2011)
- Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, Reviewer (2011 - 2011)
- CQ Press/SAGE, Anonymous Outside Reader (2010 - 2010)
- Personnel Advisory Committee, Member (2009 - 2010)
- Oxford University Press, Anonymous Outside Reader (2008 - 2009)