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Associate Professor History, American Culture

• Affiliation(s)

  • Faculty: Department of History
  • Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC), African American Studies

• Fields of Study

  • African-American social movements, 20th-century U.S. history, race-postwar liberalism-and the American left, African-American politics in the post-civil-rights era.
    Secondary Fields of Study: Public memory of the Civil Rights movement, right-wing social movements, the social construction of race.

• About

  Professor Countryman is the Faculty Director of the OVPR Arts of Citizenship Program. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Department of American Culture.

• Education

  • Ph.D., Duke, 1999

• Research Areas of Interest

  • African-American social movements, 20th-century U.S. history, race-postwar liberalism and the American left, African-American politics in the post-civil-rights era