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Dr. Christopher P. Todd

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of History

(940) 565-2288 -

Email: Christopher.Todd@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Chicago, 2019
    Major: History
    Specialization: African American History; United States History: Colonial through Reconstruction; History of the Caribbean; Slavery; History of Captialism
    Dissertation: “The Slaves’ Money: Bondage, Freedom and Social Change in Jamaica, 1776-1832”
  • MA, University of Chicago, 2010
    Major: History
    Specialization: Caribbean and Atlantic World
    Dissertation: “Provisioning and Market Relations in the Political Logics of the Enslaved: The Case of the Baptist Rebellion”
  • BA, New York University, 1999
    Major: History and Political Science

Professional Positions

    Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Assistant Professor, The University of North Texas. The University of North Texas. (2020 - Present).

Professional Memberships

  • African American Intellectual History Society. (2021 - Present).
  • Social Science History Association. (2018 - Present).
  • American Historical Association. (2016 - Present).
  • Association of Caribbean Historians. (2016 - Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • HIST 2675 - Honors United States History to 1865, 5 courses.
  • HIST 3240 - African American History and Culture to 1865, 3 courses.
  • HIST 4260 - Topics in History, 3 courses.
  • HIST 4261 - Topics in US History, 1 course.
  • HIST 4440 - African American History and Culture to 1865, 2 courses.
  • HIST 4900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • HIST 5100 - Seminar in United States History, 1 course.
  • HIST 5110 - Studies in United States History, 2 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Other (Video Lecture “British North America”), UNT, (November 22, 2021 - November 22, 2021).
  • Other (Video Lecture “The Market Revolution"), UNT, (November 22, 2021 - November 22, 2021).
  • Guest Lecture, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Institute, 40 participants. (June 18, 2018 - June 18, 2018).
  • Guest Lecture, The Office of Academic Leadership, Advancement, and Diversity of the University of Chicago, 15 participants. (July 21, 2017 - July 21, 2017).
  • Guest Lecture, The Office of Academic Leadership, Advancement, and Diversity of the University of Chicago, 20 participants. (June 16, 2017 - June 16, 2017).
  • Guest Lecture, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Institute, 40 participants. (June 15, 2017 - June 15, 2017).
  • Guest Lecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 20 participants. (September 15, 2016 - September 15, 2016).
  • Guest Lecture, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Research Institute, 40 participants. (July 15, 2016 - July 15, 2016).
  • Guest Lecture, Harold Washington College, 15 participants. (May 10, 2016 - May 10, 2016).
  • Guest Lecture, Odyssey Program, 15 participants. (March 16, 2016 - March 16, 2016).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Review

  • Todd, C. (2007). Book Review: “Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism” by Christopher Leslie Brown. The Journal of Religion. 87 (3) 447-449. Chicago, IL, Journal of Religious History.

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Todd, C.P. (Author & Presenter), University of North Texas Black History Month Conference, “Of Baubles and Bangles: The Problem of Consumption in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in The British West Indies”, The University of North Texas History Department, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2023).
  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, The History of Race as an American Idea, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), The Race and Capitalism Project Brown Bag Workshop, The Slaves’ Sacred Property: Money, Tithing, and Mission Bulding in Jamaica, 1813-1831, The Center for Race, Politics and Culture at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).

    • Paper

  • Todd, C.P. (Author & Presenter), American Historical Association Rountable “Capitalism, Slavery, and Emancipation: Lessons from an Older-School”, TBA, American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, United States of America. (2024).
  • Todd, C.P. (Author & Presenter), 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, “New Light on Jamaica's Baptist Rebellion: Slave Tithing, Church Property and Ownership in the in the Baptist War of 1831”, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. (2023).
  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), Reframing Caribbean Influences on Global Spaces: Critically Engaging Perspectives on Human Geography and Risks, Political Economy and Technology, ’but he must pay them for their labor as free men’: Money, Value and the Expansion of the Slaves’ Economy in the Making of the 1831 Baptist Rebellion, Caribbean Studies Association, Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica. (2022 - 2022).
  • Todd, C.P. (Author & Presenter), Workshop on Early American Money, The Slaves’ Sacred Property: Money, Tithing, and Mission Building in Jamaica, 1813-1831, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, Providence, RI, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Todd, C. (Presenter), Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry Seminar Series, “Slavery and Sacred Property: Black Baptist Mission Building and the Creation of a New Afro-Jamaican Political Subjects During the Age of Revolutions”, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), Conference on Latin American History, Slave Rebellion and Sacred Property: Baptist Mission Building and the Formation of a Modern Slave Political Personality, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), Ways of Knowing Conference, Slavery and Sacred Property: The ‘Leader and Class System’ in the Formation of a Modern Slave Political Personality in Early Nineteenth Century Jamaica, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), Marking Race, Making History: A Conference in Celebration of the Career of Thomas Holt, New Light on Jamaica’s Baptist Rebellion: Slave Tithing, Church Property, and Ownership in the in the Baptist War of 1831, The University of Chicago History Department, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2016 - 2016).
  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), Imperial Transformations: A Graduate Student Conference on Ecology, Bureaucracy, and Ritual in the British Atlantic, 17th-20th Century, “Money, Slaves and Social Change: The Formation of the 1831 Baptist Rebellion”, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2016 - 2016).

    • Scholarly Meeting Contribution

  • Todd, C. (Moderator), Race and Midevial Studies, No presentation, The Texas Midevial Association Conference, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the Society of Early Americanists, “New Light on Jamaica’s Baptist Rebellion: Subsistence Crises and the Intensification of Jamaica’s Internal Economy After the American Revolution”, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the Society of Early Americanists, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2015 - 2015).

    • Sharing Session

  • Todd, C. (Author & Presenter), The Practice of History: A Celebration of Dr. Julie Saville, “What I Learned About the Craft of Research from Julie Saville, Or, How to Be a Wonderful and Sincere Scholar, Mentor and Friend”, The University of Chicago History Department, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).

Media Contributions

    Other

  • "TBA," UNT Weekly. (2024).
  • "Black Lives Matter," UNT Pod. (September 21, 2020).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Todd, C.P., "Faculty Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History," sponsored by Harvard University, International, $52000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Todd, C.P. (Principal), "SCA/Small Grant," sponsored by CLASS Dean's Office, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2021 - 2021).

Service

University Service

  • Faculty Advisor, Africana Studies. (September 1, 2021 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Black History Month Committee. (2021 - Present).
  • Member, Department of History Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. (October 2020 - Present).
  • Other (Booked the speaker and organized the event), Black History Month Speaker Event. (March 4, 2024 - March 4, 2024).
  • Member, Carnegie R1 Channel of the CLASS Strategic Planning Committee. (October 2020 - May 2021).
  • Member, CLASS Strategic Planning Committee. (October 2020 - May 2021).
  • Chairperson, Student Stakeholder Committee of the CLASS Strategic Planning Committee. (October 2020 - May 2021).
  • Member, Interviewer, Fulbright On-Campus Committee, University of Chicago. (January 2017 - February 2017).
  • Member, Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Board of the Student Life Committee, University of Chicago. (2009 - 2009).