Gunther Peck

Gunther Peck joins Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the long history of human trafficking and its relationship to the evolution of racial ideology, humanitarian intervention, and immigration policy.

Gunther Peck’s research focuses on the long history of human trafficking and its relationship to the evolution of racial ideology, humanitarian intervention, and immigration policy in North America and Europe. In addition to mentoring both History and Public Policy graduate students, he regularly teaches four undergraduate lecture courses entitled “Immigrant Dreams, American Realities: U.S. Immigration Policy History,” “Historicizing Whiteness,” “Human Trafficking, Past to Present,” and “North American Environmental History.” As a community activist in North Carolina, Professor Peck has also taken a keen interest in voting rights and understanding how and why citizens do and do not vote.

Gunther’s Recomended Resources

1. Nell Painter. History of White People (New York: Norton, 2010). Book on Amazon

2. Edwin Morgan. American Freedom, American Slavery: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: Norton, 1975). Book on Amazon

3. Annette Gordon-Reed. The Hemingses of Monticello : An American Family (Norton, 2008). Book on Amazon

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