Henry Kamerling

HENRY KAMERLING, PhD, is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of History at Seattle University, part of the College of Arts & Sciences. He joined Seattle University in 2008 after teaching at the University of Rochester and Queens University in Charlotte, NC, and served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. Dr. Kamerling holds a BA from Colorado College and an MA/PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1998). His teaching spans 19th/20th century U.S. and world history, as well as Inquiry Seminars in the Humanities and Global Challenges within Seattle University’s Core program.

Research interests include crime/punishment studies, American racial/ethnic history, the history of the American South, and cultural analysis of zombies/monsters in global popular culture. His book Capital and Convict: Race, Region, and Punishment in Post-Civil War America (2017) explores racialized punishment systems. Current projects investigate whether zombies qualify as superheroes in modern mythologies. His work examines societal boundaries between normal/aberrant behavior through crime, monsters, and superheroes.

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