Stephen Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, health and mortality outcomes in the nineteenth-century American South. He is the author or editor of seven books on America in the mid-19th century, including his most recent, Count the Dead: Quantification and the Birth of Death as We Know It (UNC press, 2022). 

Students of all majors are welcome. 

Free pizza. This is an FYO event.