History Professor Earns Faculty Fellow Distinction
The Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees recently honored Castleton History Professor Adam Chill as the VSC Faculty Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year. The distinguished fellowship award is given out twice a year and honors tenured faculty who show outstanding accomplishments in teaching and learning.
Chill’s win marks the significant milestone of every current History department faculty member having received the VSC Faculty Fellow distinction.
“I’m really honored and humbled to receive this award,” said Chill. “While it’s certainly great to get this individual recognition of my work, whatever I have achieved at Castleton has been made possible by working with an amazing group of faculty, staff, administrators, and most especially students.”
Chill joined the Castleton community as a full time faculty member in 2009. As a historian of Europe and the world, he offers a range of European history courses from classes on Irish history, to the British Empire, and the historical relationship between Europe and the Middle East.
In the past, Chill’s bare-knuckle boxing research focused on ways in which boxers, journalists, and others used identity to promote themselves and their sport. Recently, he has become interested in commodities in world history, an enthusiasm kindled by a First Year Seminar course he teaches called Coffee in World History.
To honor his win, Chill will present some of his research at the at the Vermont State Colleges Faculty Fellow celebration in the fall.
“I will be presenting some of the findings from my research about bare-knuckle boxing in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland,” he said of his presentation. “Specifically, I look at how national, ethnic, religious, and racial identities were used by various supporters of early boxing to attract interest in their sport.”