Faculty Profile

Chad Pearson

Title
Assistant Professor
Department
History
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

Education

PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York, 2008.
Major: History
Degree Specialization: Labor and Business History
Dissertation Title: “’Organize and Fight’: Communities, Employers, and Open-Shop Movements, 1890-1920”
MA, Clark University, 1999.
Major: History
Degree Specialization: Social History
BA, Clark University, 1998.
Major: History

Current Scheduled Teaching*

HIST 2620.031, United States History Since 1865, Summer 2024
HIST 2620.602, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2024 Syllabus

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching*

HIST 2675.001, Honors United States History to 1865, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4261.004, Topics in US History, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4261.204, Topics in US History, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.602, United States History Since 1865, Fall 8W2 2023 SPOT
HIST 2610.601, United States History to 1865, Fall 8W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4261.006, Topics in US History, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.003, United States History to 1865, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.005, United States History to 1865, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.031, United States History to 1865, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.750, United States History to 1865, Spring SDC 2023 Syllabus
HIST 2675.001, Honors United States History to 1865, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.001, United States History Since 1865, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.006, United States History to 1865, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.009, United States History to 1865, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Publications

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book
Pearson, C. (2022). Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Pearson, C. (2015). Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Book Chapter
Pearson, C., Hulden, V. (2021). “The Wild West of Employer Anti-Unionism: The Glorification of Vigilantism and Individualism in the Early Twentieth-Century United States”. Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930. Abingdon: Routledge.
Pearson, C. (2021). “On Polemics and Provocations: Bryan D. Palmer vs. Liberal Anti-Marxists”. Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
Pearson, C. (2020). "The Law or Popular Justice": Owen Wister and the Legitimization of Employer-Class Violence. Private Security and the Modern State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Pearson, C. (2020). The ‘New Solution’: Anti-Labour Kidnapping, D. B. McKay, and the Legacy of the Second Seminole War. The Violence of Work: New Essays in Canadian and U.S. Labour History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Book Review
Pearson, C. (2023). It's the Union Leaders, Stupid: Organized Labor's Failures in the South, Review of Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Race, Class, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Reviews in American History. 51(2), 152-159. Baltimore, Maryland: Journal. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51186
Pearson, C. (2023). Review of Lorenzo Costaguta, Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. International Review of Social History. 68(3), 535-538. Neatherlands: Journal. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/latest-issue
Pearson, C. (2023). Review of Matthew Stanley, Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. Journal of Labor and Society. 26(3), 427–430. New York, New York: Journal. https://brill.com/view/journals/jlso/26/3/jlso.26.issue-3.xml
Pearson, C. (2023). Review of Toni Gilpin, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the America. 20(3), 109-111. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor/article-abstract/20/3/109/381802/The-Long-Deep-Grudge-A-Story-of-Big-Capital?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Pearson, C. (2021). Review of Christian Wright, Carbon County, USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West.. American Historical Review. 126(3), 1286–1287. Washington, DC: American Historical Review. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/126/3
Pearson, C. (2020). Review of Travis Sutton Byrd, Tangled: Organizing the Southern Textile Industry, 1930-1934. Journal of American History. no. 107(3), 775-776. Bloomington, IN:. oah.org
Co-edited Book
Pearson, C. (2017). Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
Critical Review
Pearson, C. (2022). The Enduring Significance of Black and Multiracial Working-Class History. Labour / Le Travail. 90(Fall 2022), . Athabasca, Canada: Athabasca University Press. https://www.lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt
Journal Article
Pearson, C. E. (2023). The 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike, J. West Goodwin’s Law and Order League, and the Blacklisting of Martin Irons. International Review of Social History. A small part is in my book. 68(S31), 213-235. n/a: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/article/abs/1886-southwest-railroad-strike-j-west-goodwins-law-and-order-league-and-the-blacklisting-of-martin-irons/60AC3592988F5FF562BA9EAF358EE5F3
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Challenge and
Engagement Index
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
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    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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