Professor of History, Duke University; Project Director, "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South," Center for Documentary Studies
I teach modern American and Afro-American history at Duke University, along with documenting and explaining black experiences of segregation. My scholarly interests began forming in 1963, when I received the first Rayford W. Logan Historical Prize (an all-expense scholarship) at Virginia Union University. During freshman year I had joined student sit-ins and pickets in downtown Richmond, plus camp...
Associate Professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University
I am a historian and journalist. I write on American politics, media and history for scholarly and popular publications, including most often the online magazine Slate, where I contribute a semi-regular column about history and current affairs. I teach at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where I am an associate professor in both the Department of History and the Department of Journalism and Medi...
Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, I grew up surrounded by extended family, attended the same schools as my parents and grandparents, and for a time lived in the house my great-grandmother built in the 1920s. I became interested in immigration history and ethnic politics in the rich multicultural environment of East Los Angeles, and when my family moved to north...
Associate Professor, Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland-College Park; Project Director, The "Center" for African American Women's Labor Studies Project
As Associate Professor of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, I teach courses on Afro-American History, Black Culture, Women's History and Women and Work. I received my Ph.D. in United States History from the Department of History at Howard University. I am the recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, including the Smithsonian Postdoctoral...
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of African-American Politics, University of Rochester
I have taught political science at the University of Rochester since the fall of 1994. In addition to my years of research and teaching at Rochester, I have worked as a research assistant at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C. and, during graduate school, as a research analyst at the Chicago Urban League's Research and Planning Department. My experiences at the...
Professor of History, Ohio State University
Trained as a political historian, I wrote my dissertation and first book on the Truman administration, through which I endeavored to understand the defining phenomena of the post-World War II United States: solidification of the political economy established in the New Deal and wartime mobilization; the origins of the Cold War and national security state; the rise of domestic anti-Communism; and t...
Professor, University of Maryland School of Law
My work focuses on moral questions that arise in public policy and critically examines the law's response to these questions. At times, my work treats legal doctrine as if it encapsulates a moral theory itself, Equal Protection doctrine as the Supreme Court's own theory of the criteria for wrongful discrimination, for example. This approach to legal questions grows out of my background in moral ph...
I teach modern American and Afro-American history at Duke University, along with documenting and explaining black experiences of segregation. My scholarly interests began forming in 1963, when I received the first Rayford W. Logan Historical Prize (an all-expense scholarship) at Virginia Union University. During freshman year I had joined student sit-ins and pickets in downtown Richmond, plus camp...
Born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, I grew up surrounded by extended family, attended the same schools as my parents and grandparents, and for a time lived in the house my great-grandmother built in the 1920s. I became interested in immigration history and ethnic politics in the rich multicultural environment of East Los Angeles, and when my family moved to north...
As Associate Professor of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, I teach courses on Afro-American History, Black Culture, Women's History and Women and Work. I received my Ph.D. in United States History from the Department of History at Howard University. I am the recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, including the Smithsonian Postdoctoral...
My work focuses on moral questions that arise in public policy and critically examines the law's response to these questions. At times, my work treats legal doctrine as if it encapsulates a moral theory itself, Equal Protection doctrine as the Supreme Court's own theory of the criteria for wrongful discrimination, for example. This approach to legal questions grows out of my background in moral ph...