Charlie Bright

Professor Emeritus, Social Theory and Practice Program

cbright@umich.edu

About

Charles Bright is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of History in the Residential College and the Department of History. He has taught and written on American political history (Statemakng and Social Movements), prison history (The Powers that Punish), and the history of Detroit. He is currently working on editing and annotating a collection of letters his grandfather wrote from China in 1937-38, and on a long-term project to bring a series of essays about global history, written with a colleague at the University of Chicago, into a book provisionally entitled The Global Condition in the Long Twentieth Century. He has had teaching gigs in Italy and Japan and was Director of the Residential College for seven-and-a-half years, during which time he was instrumental in helping to develop engaged, community based learning initiatives and collaborations in Detroit. He has been active in theater projects at the Residential College over many years and not long ago was able to play the Barberini Pope in Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo – finally getting people to bow down to him.

Highlighted Publications

Violence in the Big House: The Limits of Discipline and the Spaces of Resistance

Charlie Bright

Name of Periodical: States of Violence

Year of Publication: 2006

Regimes of World Order: Colonialism and Corporatism as Essays of World Power

Charlie Bright, Michael Geyer

Name of Periodical: Perspectives on the Global Past

Year of Publication: 2005

It Was As If We Were Never There: Recovering Detroit’s Past for History and Theater

Charlie Bright

Name of Periodical: Journal of American History

Year of Publication: 2002

Where in the World is America? : The History of the United States in a Global Age

Charlie Bright, Michael Geyer

Name of Periodical: Rethinking American History in a Global Age

Year of Publication: 2002

Global Violence and Nationalizing Wars in Eurasia and America: the Geopolitics of War in the mid-Nineteenth Century

Charlie Bright, Michael Geyer

Name of Periodical: Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volume Number: 3

Issue Number: 4

Year of Publication: 1996

Notes, Comments, Reviews:

Reprinted in Aram Yengoyan (ed) Modes of Comparison (University of Michigan Press, 2006)

The Powers that Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the ‘Big House’, 1920-1955

Charlie Bright

In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a carceral regime was organized and maintained, how prisoners were treated and involved in the creation of a regime of order and how penal practices were explained and defended in public. In addition, it is a meditation upon punishment in modern society and a critical engagement with prevailing...

Statemaking and Social Movements: Essays in History and Theory

Charlie Bright, Susan Harding

An interdisciplinary dialogue about politics, social movements, and the transformative relationship between states and societies.

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Month of Publication: December

Year of Publication: 1984

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

# of Pages: 416

ISBN: 978-0472100507

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Charlie Bright

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Highlighted Publications

Violence in the Big House: The Limits of Discipline and the Spaces of Resistance

Regimes of World Order: Colonialism and Corporatism as Essays of World Power

It Was As If We Were Never There: Recovering Detroit’s Past for History and Theater

Where in the World is America? : The History of the United States in a Global Age

Global Violence and Nationalizing Wars in Eurasia and America: the Geopolitics of War in the mid-Nineteenth Century

The Powers that Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the ‘Big House’, 1920-1955

Statemaking and Social Movements: Essays in History and Theory

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