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Professor

• Fields of Study

  • U.S. and African American intellectual and cultural history
  • race and gender politics in post-World War II America
  • African American cultural production
  • the global dimensions of U.S. struggles over the meaning of citizenship

• About

  Selected Publications:
  
  American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-4966.html 

  Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics and Culture During the Twentieth Century (UNC Press, 1996).
  Winner of the John Hope Franklin Book Prize of the American Studies Association, 1997.

  Elected President of the American Studies Association, March 2008.
  

• Education

  • Ph.D. Brown, 1991

• Research Areas of Interest

  • U.S. and African American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African American cultural production; the global dimensions of U.S. struggles over the meaning of citizenship