Robert Kinnaird Batchelor

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia Southern University

CV 1-2007

batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu

Professional History:

2002-present: Assistant Professor, Modern British History, Department of History, Georgia Southern University.

2000-2002: Director of Education, Foundation for Global Community, Palo Alto, CA

1999-2000: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University.

1999-2003: Artist and Researcher, Artworks Team, San Jose University/City Library Project

1996-1999: Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University.

1992-1993: Teaching Associate, Dept. of History, University of California, Los Angeles.

1991-1992: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of History, University of California, Los Angeles.

Education and Degrees:

1990-1999:  University of California, Los Angeles.  D. Phil, 1999.  C. Phil in 1994.   MA History, 1992. Major field in British History 1485-1760.  Minor fields in Chinese History 1000-1800, History of Science from 1600, and Comparative Literature.

1994-1996:  Istituto Universitario Europeo.  Firenze, Italy.  Vasco da Gama fellowship from the Portuguese government.

1992-1993:  Institute for Historical Research, London and Victoria and Albert Museum MA in Design Program.

1986-1990:  Cornell University.  Graduated Magna Cum Laude in History and Government.  Distinction in all subjects.

Dissertation:    The European Aristocratic Imaginary and the Eastern Paradise: Europe, Islam and China, 1100-1780.   Department of History, UCLA, 1999.

Publications:

—“On the Movement of Porcelains: Rethinking the Birth of the Consumer Society as the Interaction of Exchange Networks, China and Britain, 1600-1750” in John Brewer and Frank Trentmann, eds., Consuming Cultures: Global Perspectives, (Oxford: Berg, 2006)

—“Binary as Transcultural Technology: Leibniz, mathesis universalis and the Yijing,” in David Glimp and Michelle Warren, eds. Arts of Calculation: Numerical Thought in Early Modern Europe, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

—“Concealing the Bounds: Imagining the British Nation Through China,” in Felicity Nussbaum, ed., The Global Eighteenth Century, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2003).

Artworks and Installations:

2006:  True/False: The Indigo Garden, Georgia Southern Botanical Garden, lead artist, with Penny Brice, Joel Varland and GSU student collaborators

2003:  Recolecciones: The King Library Public Art Collections, with Mel Chin (lead artist), Haun Saussy and James Millar

Papers Presented, Encyclopedia Articles and Book Reviews:

—"Book Review: Christian Stücken, Der Mandarin des Himmels : Zeit und Leben des Chinamissionars Ignaz Kögler, S.J. (1680–1746)," Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu, (2007)

—“Silver and Slaves: Emporial Values and the Rise of British Anti-Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century” Paper presented at the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Oxford, January 2007

—“Spaces of Devolution: England, Scotland and Wales,” lecture given as part of the “Seven Nations Experience,” Georgia Southern University, November, 2006

—“Shen Fuzong” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Online Supplement (October 2006)

—"From Emporialism to Imperialism: The Disappearance of the South Seas and the Reconfiguration of Exchange,” Paper presented at the Consortium for the Revolutionary Era, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2, 2006.

—“Constituting the World of Letters: Circulations of Arabic and Chinese Writing in Seventeenth-Century England,” European History and Culture Colloquium, UCLA, April 11, 2005.

—"Book Review: Joseph B. Mühlberger, Glaube in Japan: Alexandro Valignanos Katechismus seine moraltheologischen Aussagen im japanischen Kontext,” Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu, 76, (July-Dec 2005).

—“The Suburban Idyll and the Globalization of the Chinese Garden,” Paper presented at Activity and Repose: Place Memory and Sociality in Chinese and Japanese Gardens, Getty Research Institute and Huntington Library, December 2004.

—“The Calligraphic Other: Media for Arabic and Chinese Writing in Seventeenth-Century England,” Paper presented at the Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University, October 2004.

—"Porcelain as a Global Mass Medium: Transcultural Consumption in England and China, 1600-1750" given at the joint California Institute of Technology and Birkbeck College Cultures of Consumption Program conference on Consumption, Modernity and the West: Re-Thinking Narratives of Consumerism, Pasadena, CA, April 16-17, 2004.

—"Perceived Differences: The Impact of Media and Medicines from China on Cartesian Bodies in the Seventeenth Century," given at the conference for the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) hosted by the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, Augusta State University and the Center for the Study of Georgia History, Augusta, GA, February 27-28, 2004.

—“Book Review: Wenchao Li and Hans Poser, eds., Das Neueste über China: G. W. Leibnizens Novissima Sinica von 1697,” Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, v. 72 (2003).

—“Book Review: Paul Halliday, Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England’s Towns, 1650-1730,” The Historian, v. 63, no. 4, (Summer 2001) p. 867.

—“Book Review: Frank O’Gorman, The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History,” The Historian, v. 63, no. 3 (Spring 2001) p. 686.

—“Lacking Real Character: Samuel Pepys and the Cryptic Self.”  Paper for the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.  March 2001.

—“Radical Translation: Some Implications of a Conversation Between C.L.R. James and Cornelius Castoriadis.”  Paper for “Appropriations” Workshop, Stanford University.  May 2000.

—“The Republic of Codes: Cryptographic Theory and Scientific Networks in the Seventeenth Century.”  Paper for the Writing Science Workshop, Stanford University.  November 1999.

— “Book Review: Sande Cohen, Academia and the Luster of Capital,”  Historien: A Review of the Past, vol. 1, no. 1, (May 1999) p. 167-171.

— “Paradise or Politics: The First English Landscape Garden at Stowe.”  Talk given in the Huntington Library Scholarly Sustenance Series.  July 1998.

—“How the Orange Became Sweet: The Baroque Orangery and the Limits of ‘Exoticism.’”  Paper for the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.  April 1997.

—“The Tea Table and the Coffee House: Social Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Paper for the Conference on British Studies, Chicago.  October 1996.

—“Enlightenment and the Imitation of China.”  Paper for the Colloquium in European History and Culture, UCLA.  January 1996.

Awards and Honors:

Georgia Southern Faculty Research Grant, 2006

Georgia Southern Faculty Teaching Grant, 2005

Georgia Southern Faculty Research Grant, 2003

Huntington Library Fellowship, San Marino, Summer 1998

Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA, 1995

Clark Library Dissertation Fellowship, 1995 (not used), 1997 (not used)

Vasco da Gama Fellowship, Government of Portugal, 1994, 1996

Friends of History Award, UCLA, 1994

History Department Fellowship, UCLA, 1994

President's Fellowship, UCLA, 1993

Research Travel Fellowship, UCLA, 1992

Division of Humanities Fellowship, UCLA, 1990

George S. Lustig Award for Historical Studies, Cornell University, 1990

Magna Cum Laude, distinction in all subjects, Cornell University, 1990