Camden Burd

Assistant Professor

Contact
Department of History
Office: Hardin Hall 014
Website: https://www.camdenburd.com
Email: cburd@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Rochester (2019); MA, University of Rochester (2015); MA, Central Michigan University (2014); BA, University of Utah (2011)

Research Interests
U.S. History; U.S. History 1877-Present; U.S. Midwest; Environmental History; Capitalism; Digital Methods

Camden Burd is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century US history. He is particularly interested in histories that explore the tangled histories of American capitalism and environmental change. His first book, The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New York will be published by Cornell University Press in Fall 2024. The book explores a network of plant nurserymen, situated in Western New York, attached their businesses to the larger American imperial project of the nineteenth century. In turn, they used their social prestige and capital to shape Rochester in their image. Dr. Burd is also interested in variety of digital methods including TEI and Digital Mapping to examine source material in novel ways and disseminate information to broader audiences.

Prior to his arrival at Clemson University, Dr. Burd was an Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University and held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden. He has received research support from various organizations and institutions including the Newberry Library, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Selected Professional Works

Books (In Production or Under Contract)

The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New York. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

“Unearthing the Past: A Midwestern Environmental History,” The Middle West Review 10, no. 1 (2023): 11-15. (Co-authored with Jennifer Kirsten Stinson)

“Introducing GIS in the History Classroom: Mapping the Legacies of the Industrial Era in Postindustrial America,” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, (2020) https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/introducing-gis-in-the-history-classroom-mapping-the-legacies-of-the-industrial-era-in-postindustrial-america-a494c83d-1b14-4518-9c29-3a1edc91c7e6/section/45eab18c-ad01-4c32-8988-8f3b352ba43d.

“Close Reading and Coding with the Seward Family Digital Archive: Digital Documentary Editing in the Undergraduate History Classroom,” in Quick Hits: Teaching with the Digital Humanities, edited by Christopher J. Young (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020), 12 – 17.

“A New 'State of Superior': Political Fracture and Anti-environmentalism in the Upper Midwest,” in The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest, ed. Jon Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2020), 153 – 170.

“Scrolling through Nature: Reflections on the Digital Humanities and Michigan’s Environmental History,” The Michigan Historical Review: Special Issue on Environmental Histories of the Great Lakes State 45, no. 1 (2019): 109 – 119.