United States Experts
Associate Director of Political Science, The George Washington University
I am an associate professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. I have previously been assistant professor at George Washington University and the University of Toronto, and a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group in Bonn, Germany. I work on a variety of topics, including trust, the politics of the Internet and international and comp...
Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
I have published extensively on issues of politics, identity, and inequality in recent American history. My first book, Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, explores the interplay between liberalism and black nationalism, from 1965 to 1980, and why the very policies of liberalism that moderated black power also energized the New Right. My current research takes on the rise...
Senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ferris, the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, is a leading voice on Southern studies, music and folklore. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 2002.A native of Vicksburg, Miss., and an award-winning scholar, Ferris chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1997 to 2001. Before that, he was founding director of the Center for the Study of Souther...
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas
My interest in the history of race relations in the U.S. stems in part from having grown up in the Washington DC area as a "white" person of Mexican and Irish ancestry. In southern New Mexico, where my mother grew up, most people were either "Anglos" or "Mexicans," unlike in the South where folks were either black or white. Race meant different things in different parts of the country. I became i...