Adjunct & Visiting Faculty

Benjamin Houston
Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of Florida, 2006
Department Member Since: 2006

Office: BH 366
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412.268.6574
Email: bhouston@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Houston’s research and teaching interests center on modern American history and particularly the modern American South, the post-war African American freedom struggle, and the theory and methodology of oral history. He is responsible for teaching the graduate seminar in oral history as part of supervising the Black Pittsburgh Since World War II Oral History Project, a multi-year endeavor to document the voices of local African Americans and their recent history.

His current major research project, a book manuscript entitled The Nashville Way: A Southern City and Racial Change, 1945-1975, examines racial change and continuity and the civil rights movement in Nashville, Tennessee—an epicenter for both African American activism and white paternalism. The dissertation version of this project won multiple research grants, as well as a Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion (a Lilly Endowment Program). His master’s thesis was published in the Florida Historical Quarterly, and he has work forthcoming in the Journal of Southern Religion, the African American National Biography, and an edited volume entitled Southern Identities: Essays on the New History of the American South.

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