Daniel B. Rood
334 Leconte Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
[email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of History (The United States in the Civil War Era). University of
Georgia. Athens, Georgia.
EDUCATION
PhD in History, University of California Irvine, May 2010
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Dissertation: “Plantation Technocrats: A Social History of Knowledge in the
Slaveholding Atlantic World, 1830-1860.”
Research and Teaching Interests: Slavery in the Atlantic World, history of science
and technology, the Industrial Revolution, and the African diaspora
MA in American Studies, New York University, 2002
African diaspora, U.S. history, cultural studies and critical theory
BA in English Literature, Spanish minor, University of Pittsburgh, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
“Bogs of Death: Slavery, the Global Grain Trade, and the Mystery of the Vanishing
Millpond in Antebellum Virginia,” Journal of American History (forthcoming, June 2014).
“An International Harvest: Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Making of the
McCormick Reaper.” In Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development,
Seth Rockman and Sven Beckert, eds. (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2014).
“Herman Merivale's Black Legend: Rethinking the Intellectual History of Free Trade
Imperialism.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 80, nos. 3 & 4 (2006): 163-90.
Review of Cuban Sugar Industry: Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-19thCentury Cuba, Jonathan Curry–Machado. Hispanic American Historical Review 93, no. 1 (2013).
Review of De los bueyes al vapor: caminos de la tecnología en Puerto Rico y el Caribe, Lizette Cabrera
Salcedo. Caribbean Studies 39, nos. 1 and 2 (2011).
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Review of American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation, Matthew Pratt
Guterl. Caribbean Studies 37, no. 2 (2009).
Review of Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History with Documents, David
Northrup. World History Connected 7, no. 4 (2011).
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“The Richmond-Rio Circuit: Entangled Technologies and Mass Consumption in the
Slaveholding Atlantic World,” Invited talk, 19th Century US History Seminar Series. January
2014. Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
“Fractured Commodities: Sugar-Mills and the Production of Difference in the Atlantic
World,” Beyond Sweetness: New Histories of Sugar in the Early Atlantic World. October 2013. John
Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island.
“Infrastructures of Slavery: Transport, Marketing, and Imperial Security in mid-19th century
Cuba,” Latin American Studies Association annual meeting. May 2013. Washington, DC.
“Bogs of Death: Slavery, the Atlantic Grain Trade, and the Mystery of the Vanishing
Millpond in Antebellum Virginia,” Agricultural History Society annual meeting. June 2013.
Banff, Alberta.
“Useful Knowledge: Railroads, Popular Science, and Sugar Transport in Mid-Nineteenth
Century Cuba.” American Studies Association annual meeting. November 2012. San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
“Oceanography, Space-Time, and Hemispheric Slavery: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the
Expansion of the Plantation Complex into Brazil, 1840-1861.” Southern Historical Association
annual meeting. November 2012. Mobile, Alabama.
“Cuban Systems: Slavery, Civil Engineering, and the New Marketing of Sugar, 1840-1860.”
Latin American Studies Association annual meeting. May 2012. San Francisco, California.
“Toward a Global Labor History of Science.” First Annual Conference in the World History of
Science, University of Pittsburgh. May 2012.
“A Sweet and Subtle Interrogation: Cane Sugar, Chemistry, and a New Experimental
Method in the Slaveholding Atlantic World.” Organization of American Historians annual
meeting. April 2012. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“An International Harvest: Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Making of the
McCormick Reaper.” Invited Talk, University of Pittsburgh. November 2011.
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“An International Harvest: Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Development of
the McCormick Reaper.” Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development.
Conference held at Brown and Harvard Universities. April 2011.
“Slavery and the Amber Waves of Grain: Trade, Technology, and Middle-Class
Consumption in the Richmond-Río Circuit, 1760-1860.” Presentation before Harvard
University’s Economic History Tea. January 2011. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Atlantic Counterpoints: Iron and Sugar, Engineering and Slavery between Cuba and the US
South.” Annual Meeting of the World History Association. June 2010. San Diego, California.
Presentation of Dissertation Research at the UC-Cuba Graduate Student Workshop. March
2009. UCLA.
“Plantation Laboratories: José Luis Casaseca and the Transformation of Knowledge
Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba.” El Congreso Arango, sponsored by the Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. June 2008. Madrid, Spain.
“Atlantic History in the Age of Freedom Fries: Some Comments on History and
Historiography.” Conference of the Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History. 2005. University
of California, San Diego.
“Domestic Economies/World Markets: Industrial Slavery and the Household in Antebellum
Virginia.” Conference of the Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History. 2004. University of
California, Davis.
“Industrial Epistemology and Slavery in the Atlantic World.” UC-Cuba Graduate Student
Workshop. April 2009. UCLA.
Mellon Fellow Research Talk. Virginia Historical Society. Summer 2006. Richmond, Virginia.
“Industrial Epistemology in the Slaveholding Atlantic World.” International Dissertation
Research Fellowship Spring Workshop. March 2009. New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Transnational Industrial Slavery in the Atlantic World.” Guest Lecture, World History. UC,
Irvine. 2004.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
University of Georgia. Virginia Mary Macagnoni Prize for Innovative Research, 2013.
University of Georgia. Willson Center Faculty Research Fellowship, 2013.
University of Pittsburgh. Postdoctoral Associate in the World History of Science, 20112012.
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Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance, Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Fall 2011. Declined.
Society of American Historians, Allan Nevins Prize, 2010. Awarded annually for the bestwritten doctoral dissertation on an American subject. Nominee.
American Antiquarian Society, Hench Post-Dissertation Fellow, 2010-2011.
Library Company of Philadelphia. National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral
Fellowship, 2010-2011. Alternate.
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2010-2011. Declined.
Social Science Research Council. International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2007-2008.
Fulbright Hays. Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2007-2008.
UC-Cuba Travel Fellowship. 2010
Council on Latin American History. Lydia Cabrera Award, 2010.
Virginia Historical Society. Mellon Short-term Research Fellowship, 2006.
All-UC Group in Economic History. Summer Research Fellowship, 2006.
International Center for Writing and Translation. Summer Research Fellowship, 2006.
Humanities Research Grant. UC Irvine, 2004.
Regents’ Fellowship. UC Irvine, 2002-2003.
COURSES TAUGHT
US Civil War. University of Georgia. Athens, GA 2012-2014.
History of the American South. University of Georgia. Athens, GA 2012-2014.
US History to 1877. University of Georgia. Athens, GA 2013.
World History, beginnings-present day. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA 2011.
World History of Science. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA 2011.
World Civilizations, 1500-Present. Salem State University. Salem, MA. 2006.
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