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Deyle and Romero Join UH History Faculty
Posted: April 12, 2006
Steven Deyle and R. Todd Romero will join the history department at the University of Houston in Fall 2006. Their fellow faculty members are thrilled to welcome these outstanding scholars to their ranks.
Dr. Deyle earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University under the direction of Eric Foner. He is the author of Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (Oxford University Press, 2005). This book reveals the malignant heart of that most "peculiar institution," American slavery. Deyle's focus is the domestic buying and selling of human beings after the abolition of the international slave trade in 1808; the economics and unique practices of that macabre local marketplace; and the varied individuals who engaged in and profited from the trade.
David W. Blight, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, writes about Deyle:
"Carry Me Back is a book we have long needed a synthetic, region-wide treatment of the domestic slave trade. Deyle s deep research and lucid writing convincingly show that the sale and transport of human property from the Upper to Lower South was a national tragedy of epic proportions, a grand economic enterprise that both forged the Cotton Kingdom and was the root of its undoing."
Todd Romero completed his Ph.D. in history in 2004 at Boston College, where he has been a visiting professor for the past two years. His book, Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England, is forthcoming with the University of Massachusetts Press and will be part of its series, Native Americans of the Northwest, edited by Barry O Connell and Colin G. Calloway. His study focuses on the role of masculinity in missionary efforts, exchange, and warfare in seventeenth-century New England where cultural interaction was never a one-way process. Just as English colonization influenced Indian masculinity, Anglo-Indian interaction shaped the evolution of white manhood. Both English and Indian gender identities were formed within divergent cosmological and religious views.
Dr. Romero has received numerous fellowships in support of his research, including the W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, the Phillips Fund for Native American Research Grant from the American Philosophical society, a research fellowship from the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University, and a research fellowship at the Newberry Library. He also has published essays in Ethnohistory and an upcoming edited volume with New York University Press.
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