Jack Corp
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About
Born and raised in the Ozark Mountains, the “Evangelical Epicenter” of the US, where megachurches bulldoze historic slave quarters to expand their parking lots, my background makes me acutely aware of how the interactions between religion and empire structure historical memory. My research interests lie in how the treatment of slaves in Carolingian literature was not only theological or rhetorical but embedded in the social-material practices of early medieval systems of enslavement.
Research
RESEARCH
Research interests:
- Slavery & Christian theology
- Rural social organization in early state-systems
- Hegemony & subaltern counterpower
- Philosophies of history
Working thesis title: “Bound by His Word: Slavery and the Production of Knowledge in Carolingian Christianity”
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
Hrabanus Maurus Manuscript Project, Dr. Courtney Booker, 2024-2025
- Performed the preliminary translation of “On Virtues and Vice” (ca. 834)
- Transcribed manuscript and identified scriptural and Patristic quotations
Early US Maritime Empire Project, Dr. Michael Verney, 2021
- Transcribed and interpreted diary entries from the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition, 1853-1856
AWARDS
Conway Travel Scholarship in German History, 2025
History Departmental Teaching Award, 2025
Fulbright Award, Taiwan, 2023-2024
PUBLICATIONS
Corp, Jack. “The Contested Countryside: Peasant Engagement with the Supernatural in Carolingian Francia.” Clio’s Scroll: The Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal 25, no. 1 (Fall 2022): 6-39. https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~clios/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Fall-2022-Edition-3.pdf
CONFERENCES
“Promoting Culture through Sustainability Education,” presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Penghu Studies – International Exchanges of Marine Cultural Heritage, Penghu County, Taiwan, October 2023.
“The Contest Countryside: Intercessions of the Demonic and the Divine in Carolingian Francia,” presented at the Undergraduate Religious Studies Association Spring Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, March 2022.
Graduate Supervision
Advisor: Dr. Courtney Booker
Teaching Assistantships W2025:
HIST100: What is History?, Dr. Courtney Booker
HIST112: Global History from the 15th to 20th Century, Dr. David Morton
Teaching Assistantships W2024:
HIST100: What is History?, Dr. Courtney Booker
HIST300: Vikings, Dr. Sara Ann Knutson