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Faculty Fellow

John Clegg

Collegiate Assistant Professor, History University of Chicago

Biography

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John Clegg is Collegiate Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Sociology in 2018 from New York University. His research interests include the political economy of slavery, antebellum capitalism, and mass incarceration and job loss.

Featured Project

Practices of Emancipation II

2020 – 2022

Projects

Practices of Emancipation

Colored Troops, Under General Wild, Liberating Slaves in North Carolina, from Harper’s Weekly, January 23, 1864.

Practices of Emancipation

The research team on this project used digital technologies to analyze data that tells us more about African-American military participation in the Civil War era.
Practices of Emancipation is a collaborative research project applying social scientific and digital humanistic methods to the study of African Americans in the Civil War era. We will be building and mapping a database containing detailed Union Army records on hundreds of thousands of formerly ...

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