Selected List of CAUSE Presenters
Leslie Harris, "In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863," 23 Sept. 2004. Dr. Harris is an associate professor of history at Emory University.
Thomas Guglielmo, "Italian Americans' Relations with African Americans in Interwar Chicago," 29 Oct. 2004. Dr. Guglielmo is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Angela Winand, "Weighed Upon a Scale: African American Women, Class and Consumer Culture in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. 1880-1950," 19 Nov. 2004. Dr. Winand presented this paper as CAUSE postdoctoral fellow for 2004-05.
Eric S. Brown, "The Black Professional Middle Class and the Black Community during the Late 20th Century." Presentation as CAUSE postdoctoral fellow, 14 Mar. 2002. Dr. Brown is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology Department at Cornell University.
Earl Lewis and Heizi Ardizzone, book talk and signing, Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White. 19 Apr. 2002. Earl Lewis is provost at Emory University, and Heidi Ardizzone teaches American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Winston McDowell, "Open and Hidden Handicaps: Albon L. Holsey, The National Colored Merchants' Association and the Redefinition of Depression-Era Harlem," 15 Nov. 2002. Dr. McDowell is a research consultant at Rainbow Research, Inc. in Minneapolis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Robyn Spencer, "Comrade Sister: Black Women in the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA 1966-1982," 22 Nov. 2002; and "Black Power and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California," 1 Nov. 2003. Dr. Spencer is a former CAUSE postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of African and African American Studies and History at Penn State University.
Ronald Bayor, "African Americans in the New South: The Atlanta Experience," 27 Oct. 2001. Dr. Bayor is a professor of history at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Venus Green, "Race, Gender and Technology in the Post World War II Urban Market," 27 Oct. 2001. Dr. Green is an associate professor of history at The City University of New York, The City College.
Arnold Hirsch, "Second Thoughts on the Second Ghetto: The View from Washington, D.C.," 27 Oct. 2001. Dr. Hirsch holds the Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Endowed Chair in New Orleans Studies, University of New Orleans.
Karl Johnson, "Policing Social Space in the Postwar City: African Americans, Law Enforcement and Recreation in Philadelphia, 1945-1960," 27 Oct. 2001. Dr. Johnson is a history instructor at Temple University.
Ken Kusmer, "African Americans and the Post-Industrial City: Perception and Realities, 1970-2000," 27 Oct. 2001. Dr. Kusmer is professor of history at Temple University.
Charles Payne, "Disremembering Deliverance: Notes on the Study of African American Struggle," 26 Oct. 2001. Dr. Payne is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of African-American studies, history and sociology at Duke University.
Robert Self, "Industrial Garden Means Urban Plantation: Black Power and Politics in Oakland Before the Panthers," 27 Oct. 2001. Dr. Self is an assistant professor of history and Rackham Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan.
Thomas Sugrue, "Civil Rights Politics: The Mid-20th Century," 27 Oct. 2001. Dr. Sugrue is the Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.
Dylan Penningroth, "Taking Kin to Court: Family and Property in the Freedmen's Courts," 24 Jan. 2003. Dr. Penningroth is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.
Lisa Levenstein, "Tired of Being Seconds: Black Women Welfare Recipients and the Struggle Against Poverty in Post-World War II Philadelphia," 28 Feb. 2003. Dr. Levenstein is a former CAUSE postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of history, University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
T. K. Hunter, "Imagined Geographies of Liberty: 1772 London, 1836 Boston," 31 Mar. 2003. Dr. Hunter was a visiting scholar, Department of History, Columbia University.
Barbara Ransby, "Ella Baker's Legacy: Remembering the Black Radical Democratic Tradition, 19 Sept. 2003. Dr. Ransby is associate professor, Departments of African-American Studies and History, University of Illinois-Chicago.