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Dr. Christopher Blakley

Lecturer , English and Language Arts

Office: Holmes Hall Room 227
Phone: 443-858-3165
christopher.blakley@morgan.edu

Education:

PhD, Rutgers University

Areas of interest/specialization: 

History and sociology of science,  first-year writing and composition, rhetoric, senses and emotions in historical context, moral economies. 

Publications 

Blakley, Christopher Michael. Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World. LSU Press, 2023.

Blakley, Chris M. "Intersensorial Race Science and Exploration in the Age of Jackson." Terrae Incognitae 56, no. 3 (2024): 247-264.

Blakley, Chris M. "Emotions and Battlefield Medicine in the American Revolutionary War." Emotions: History, Culture, Society 8, no. 2 (2024): 222-242.

Blakley, Christopher M. "Historicizing the “Beast-Man” On Slavery and Human-Animal Studies." Animal History 1, no. 1 (2025): 33-51.

Blakley, Chris. "Writing and Sensory Knowledge in a Rural Clinical Practice." Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 22, no. 4 (2024): 613-646.