Dr. Michael Budd

Areas of Expertise

• Modern Europe, the medical humanities, history of representation and media, imperialism/colonialism, historical film and media, museum studies, urban history, genocide studies, diplomatic history, military history and the history of technology.

Education

• B.S. in arts and sciences and economic and social history, University of Oregon (1978)
• M.A. in comparative history and militarism, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1991)
• Ph.D. in modern European history, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1992)

What's My Why?

I began my career leading youth corps programs and teaching ESL and citizenship history. My love for teaching and the skills I began to develop then continue to grow. I love telling the story of the world and drawing my fellow learners into an exploration of the connections we share locally and across cultures. I enjoy working with undergraduates completing senior theses or independent projects and advising master's and doctoral level research. I value liberal learning as a lifelong community of mind that fosters the development each individual’s talents; the cultivation of curiosity, knowledge and critical reasoning; and engagement with others in the creation of civil society and culture. My why is focused on the importance of connecting all learning to the enhancement of our ability to understand how we see each other and can cooperate to make a difference in a fast changing technologically based world. 

Selected Publications

“Composing and Decomposing Bodies: Visualizing Death and Disease in an Era of Global War, Pestilence, and Famine, 1913–1923”, Lynteris, Christos, and Nicholas H. A. Evans. 2017. Histories of post-mortem contagion: infectious corpses and contested burials.

Review: Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore, Technology and society: building our sociotechnical future. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009, ICON: Journal of the International Committee of the History of Technology

“C. G. Gordon as Hybrid Hero and Anti-modern other” Ellis, Heather, and Jessica Meyer. 2009 Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

“Heroic Retribution and Civilized Violence: Victorian Images of War and the Making of General Gordon.”Les Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens no 66 (octobre 2007).

The Sculpture Machine: Physical Culture & Body Politics in the Age of Empire (NYU Press/MacMillan 1995)