Overview

Both my degree and PhD are from Exeter. I work on American history in the last half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. I have a particular interest in ethnicity, immigration, bigotry and criminality. I am currently researching the history of slavery since 1865 in the United States.

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Research

I research  American history  from the end of the Civil War until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Within that period my real interests lie in the histories of deviancy and bigotry. As such I work on all aspects of crime and racism, nativism and prejudice. I have published works on anti-immigrant sentiment, visions of Americanism, the Ku Klux Klan and crime in general. I am currently researching the continuation of different forms of enslavement in the US since the Thirteenth Amendment.

Research collaborations

At present I am working with a variety of other academics. I am currently engaged in research centring on US slavery since 1865. This involves collaborations with scholars from the Universities of Delaware, Cambridge and Nottingham as well as others. I am also engaged in research with Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, Historians Against Slavery and the World Economic Forum, among other non-academic institutions. 

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Supervision

I am happy to supervise American history projects in the period from 1865-1941.

I am especially interested in taking on students working in the fields of the history of organised crime, the Ku Klux Klan, hate groups and international criminal fraternities.

Research students

I am currently supervising a PhD on the links between Freemasonry and the KKK in the 1920s.

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Publications

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2023

• Mead J. (2023) The Training of a Human Plant: Luther Burbank and American Society in the Early Twentieth Century.
• Allerfeldt K. (2023) Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism by Nicholas T. Pruitt, The Catholic Historical Review, volume 109, no. 1, pages 218-219, DOI:10.1353/cat.2023.0040.

2021

• Allerfeldt K. (2021) Erika Lee. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, The American Historical Review, volume 126, no. 1, pages 251-254, DOI:10.1093/ahr/rhab055.
• Parfett A, Townley S, Allerfeldt K. (2021) AI-based healthcare: a new dawn or apartheid revisited?, AI and Society, volume 36, no. 3, pages 983-999, DOI:10.1007/s00146-020-01120-w.

2020

• Allerfeldt K. (2020) The American South and the Great War 1914–1924, ed. Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, The English Historical Review, volume 135, no. 575, pages 1065-1066, DOI:10.1093/ehr/ceaa177.

2019

• Stewart B. (2019) Rioting in the Age of Emancipation: An exploration into the instigation and outcomes of the 1866 Memphis race riots in Reconstruction Tennessee.
• Allerfeldt K. (2019) World War One and the American Constitution, by William G. Ross, The English Historical Review, volume 134, no. 569, pages 1045-1047, DOI:10.1093/ehr/cez191.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2019) "Marcus Braun and "White Slavery": Shifting Perceptions of People Smuggling and Human Trafficking in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", Journal of Global Slavery, volume 4, no. 3, pages 343-371, DOI:10.1163/2405836X-00403001. [PDF]

2018

• Allerfeldt K. (2018) Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941, McFarland.

2017

• Allerfeldt K. (2017) Jason E. Pierce. Making the White Man’s West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West, The American Historical Review, volume 122, no. 3, pages 857-858, DOI:10.1093/ahr/122.3.857.

2016

• ALLERFELDT K. (2016) Michael Newton, White Robes and Burning Crosses: A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014, $45.00). Pp. 306. isbn 978 0 7864 7774 6, Journal of American Studies, volume 50, no. 1, DOI:10.1017/s0021875815002510.

2015

• ALLERFELDT K. (2015) Murderous Mumbo-Jumbo: The Significance of Fraternity to Three Criminal Organizations in Late Nineteenth-Century America, Journal of American Studies, volume 50, no. 4, pages 1067-1088, DOI:10.1017/s0021875815001176. [PDF]

2014

• Allerfeldt K. (2014) National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882, Journal of American History, volume 101, no. 2, pages 626-627, DOI:10.1093/jahist/jau352.

2013

• Allerfeldt KM. (2013) Wilson's Views on Immigration and Ethnicity, A Companion to Woodrow Wilson, John Wiley & Sons, 152-172.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2013) Jayhawker Fraternities: Masons, Klansmen and Kansas in the 1920s, Journal of American Studies, volume To be announced, no. To be announced, pages TBA-TBA, article no. To be announced.

2011

• Allerfeldt KM. (2011) Masons, Klansmen and Kansas in the 1920s: What Can They Tell Us About Fraternity?, Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, volume 2, no. 1, pages 109-122, DOI:10.1558/jrff.v2i1.109.
• Allerfeldt K. (2011) Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Routledge.

2010

• ALLERFELDT K. (2010) Rory McVeigh, The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, $22.50). Pp. 244. isbn 978 0 8166 5620 2, Journal of American Studies, volume 44, no. 2, pages 463-464, DOI:10.1017/s0021875810000812.
• Allerfeldt K. (2010) "And We Got Here First": Albert Johnson, National Origins and Self-Interest in the Immigration Debate of the 1920s", Journal of Contemporary History, volume 45, no. 1, pages 7-26, article no. 1, DOI:10.1177/0022009409348019.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2010) Rome, Race, and the Republic: Progressive America and the Fall of the Roman Empire, 1890–1920, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, volume 7, no. 3.

2008

• Allerfeldt K. (2008) Rejecting the United States of the World: The consequences of Woodrow Wilson's new diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act, European Journal of American Culture, volume 26, no. 3, pages 145-165, DOI:10.1386/ejac.26.3.145_1.

2007

• ALLERFELDT K. (2007) Review Article Some Current Thinking on American Immigration, History, volume 92, no. 305, pages 84-89, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2007.00387.x.
• Allerfeldt, K.. (2007) Rome, Race and the Republic: America and the Fall of the Roman Empire, 1890-1924, Journal of the Guilded Age and Progressive Era.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2007) The Progressive Era in the USA 1890 - 1921, Ashgate.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2007) (Review Article)Some Current Thinking on American Immigration, History, volume 80, no. 207.

2006

• Allerfeldt K. (2006) Beyond the Huddled Masses, Bloomsbury Academic, DOI:10.5040/9780755621972.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2006) Beyond the Huddled Masses: American Immigration and the Treaty of Versailles, IB Tauris.

2004

• Barkan ER, Allerfeldt K. (2004) Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1924. By Kristofer Allerfeldt. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. xii, 235 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275- 97854-0.), Journal of American History, volume 91, no. 3, pages 1062-1063, DOI:10.2307/3662960.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2004) Wilsonian Pragmatism? Woodrow Wilson, Japanese Immigration, and the Paris Peace Conference, Diplomacy and Statecraft, volume 15, no. 3, pages 545-572, DOI:10.1080/09592290490498866.

2003

• Allerfeldt, K.. (2003) Race and Restriction: Anti-Asian Immigration Pressures in the Pacific North-west of America during the Progressive Era, 1885-1924, History, volume 88, no. 289, pages 53-73, DOI:10.1111/1468-229X.00251.
• Allerfeldt KM. (2003) Race, Radicalism, Religion and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924, Praeger, DOI:10.1336/0275978540.

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External impact and engagement

I am currently working on slavery since abolition in the US. As such I am engaging with law enforcers, lawyers and the media, as well as a variety of academics to better understand how we can use history to shape today's policies and make them more effective and responsive.

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Teaching

My teaching focuses on US history in the period between 1865 and 1941.

Modules taught

• HIC2006 - American Slavery since Abolition (1865-to the Present)
• HIC2324 - Organised Crime in USA

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Biography

Both my undergraduate degree and PhD are from Exeter. I moved to Cornwall in 2007 and have taught here on various aspects of US history. 

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