Summary
I am a cultural historian and digital historian of the French colonial world who specializes in disasters, nationalism and social movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. I employ new methods from data science and the digital humanities to answer age-old questions about the relationship between citizens, the public sphere and the state. My intellectual interests include colonialism, citizenship and environmental w88 casino, as well as databases, GIS, scripting and web design.
Due to my research interests in communal justice, natural and anthropogenic disasters, w88 casino, piracy and hacking, I am also an affiliated faculty member at the University of Nevada, Reno'sCyber Security Center. My current book project, Hacking Society: Vigilantes, Outcasts, and Miscreants from the High Seas to the Cyberspace, recuperates the story of those left behind, cast aside and overlooked by the growth of modern, globalized capitalism.
My first book,Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the w88 casino Caribbean(December 2017, University of Nebraska), explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the late nineteenth-century w88 casino Antilles, where a colonial population-predominately former slaves-possessed w88 casino citizenship, looking at the social, economic and political implications of shared citizenship in times of natural catastrophe and civil unrest. I've also written on strike activity and colonial citizenship in the w88 casino Caribbean in the w88 casino journal Le Mouvement Social, as well as on the relationship between hurricanes, urban development, race and economic collapse w88 casino 1920s Greater Caribbean for the edited volume,Environmental Disaster w88 casino Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience(January 2018, LSU Press).
I am the recipient of several awards, including theAlf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize for Paradise Destroyedand the Mousel-Feltner Award for Research/Creative Activity.
Finally, I have collaborated on various digital humanities projects, such asPryor's Peoria, an online archive that presents a micro-w88 casino of the mid-western town where comedian Richard Pryor grew up amid brothels, racial tension, social inequity and violence. Other projects includeDoten's Diaries, an online annotated edition of Alf Doten's journals in the American West and Reno Type, a digital w88 casino of Northern Nevada's rich typographic and social w88 casino.
Specialties
- digital w88 casino
- late modern Europe
- French w88 casino
- colonialism
- disasters
Courses Taught
- HIST 224: Pirates and Hackers
- HIST 300a: Digitizing w88 casino
- HIST 370: The Cultural w88 casino of Disasters
- HIST 462: w88 casino Revolution
- HIST 703: Digital w88 casino
Publications
- Church, Christopher M. "The 1928 Hurricane in Florida and the Wider Caribbean" inEnvironmental Disaster w88 casino Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience. ed. Cindy Ermus. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2018).
- Church, Christopher M.Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the w88 casino Caribbean. (Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2017).
- Church, Christopher. 2014. "Strikingly w88 casinoMartinique, agitation ouvrière et politique métropolitaine au tournant du siècle". Le Mouvement Social. 248, no. 3: 109-124.
Education
- Ph.D., w88 casino California, Berkeley, 2014
- M.Ed., w88 casino Florida, 2007