History Conference 2009 / Participants
Manfred Berg holds the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History at the University of Heidelberg. Among his publications are Ticket to Freedom : The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration; and Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past (editor).
Kevin Boyle is Professor of History at Ohio State University. His most recent book, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2004.
William H. Chafe is Mary Baldwin Professor of History and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University. Among his many books are Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom; Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South (editor), and Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein And The Struggle To Save American Liberalism.
Kevin K. Gaines is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. His books include American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era; and Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century.
Glenda E. Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950; and Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920.
Steven Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author A Nation under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Bancroft Prize in 2004, and, most recently, of The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom.
Michael K. Honey holds the Harry Bridges Chair in Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, and directs the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, at the University of Washington. He is the author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign; Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle; and Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers.
Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the author of Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, and editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era
Adriane Lentz-Smith is Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of a forthcoming study of the black freedom struggle in the World War I years, The Great War for Civil Rights: African Americans and the Making of a Movement.
Richard Olaniyan is Professor of History at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, and an associate member of the Smithsonian Institute. Among his books is The Amalgamation and Its Enemies: An Interpretive History of Modern Nigeria.
Renee Romano is Associate Professor of History at Oberlin College. She is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America and the editor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory.
George J. Sanchez is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945.
Harvard Sitkoff is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of A New Deal for Blacks; The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954 – 1980; and King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.