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Dr. Wesley Hogan

 

 

Assistant Professor of History
Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Race Relations
Colson 101B
email: whogan@vsu.edu

Course Pages:
GEHI 123: US History Since 1865
HIST 547: Graduate Oral History Seminar

Education

 -    Ph.D., United States History, Duke University.  May 2000.

  • sub-field:  Comparative History of Race & Ethnicity
  • sub-field:  Comparative History of Sexuality & Gender
  • sub-field:  Military History

    -    M.A., United States History, Duke University.  Dec. 1995.

    -    B. A., History, University of Pennsylvania.  May 1992.

Research Areas

 Social movements; Community Organizing; Twentieth Century US history

Courses Taught

  • US History Since 1865 (GEHI 123)
  • HIST 352 Black Voices in American History
  • HIST 444 Senior Seminar
  • HIST 445 US Women's History
  • HIST 545 US Women's History (Graduate)
  • HIST 547 Oral History Seminar

Selected Publications  

  • Many Minds, One Heart:  SNCC's Dream for a New America, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
  • "Freedom Economics,” in Reviews in American History, Dec. 2007.
  • Review of Winifred Breines, The Trouble Between Us: an Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, North Carolina Historical Review, July 2007.
  • “Why These Questions? Theorizing the Insides of SNCC’s Movement Culture,” in Local Studies, a National Movement: Toward a New Synthesis of the Black Freedom Struggle, ed. Emilye Crosby, University of Georgia press, forthcoming, fall 2008.
  • “Nothin’ but a Bullet in the Head!”: Questions about Nonviolence in the Freedom Struggle,” in Local Studies, a National Movement: Toward a New Synthesis of the Black Freedom Struggle, ed. Emilye Crosby, University of Georgia press, forthcoming, fall 2008.
  • "1+1: Children Challenge 'Sharecropper Education' in Baltimore," with Dirk Philipsen, First of the Month (Fall 2006).
  • "Out of Time," with Dirk Philipsen, First of the Month (November 2004)
  • "The Politics of Patience," First of the Month (July 2003).
  • “How democracy Travels:  SNCC Teaches Swarthmore Students,”  Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography (July 2002).
  • “Cincinnati: Race in the Closed City,” Social Policy 32:2 (Winter 2001/2002).

Grants & Awards

-    Young People’s Project, The Dominion Education Foundation, Petersburg Public Schools, and VSU, Contract of $100,000 to continue a year-long Young People's Project in the Petersburg Middle Schools, Sept. 2007 - June 2008.

-    Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, $10,000, Dec. 2006, to develop a brochure for Virginia libraries and K12 schools on the Petersburg Civil Rights Movement.

-    Young People's Project, Petersburg Public Schools, and VSU, Contract of $131,900 to establish a year-long Young People's Project in the Petersburg Middle Schools, Sept. 2006-June 2007.

-    Community Foundation of Richmond, Award of $12,000 in May, 2005 for VSU's Oral History Program, "Windows to the Past."

-    Gwathmey Memorial Trust Foundation, Award of $16,000 in June, 2004 for 5 scholarships for VSU's Oral History Program, "Windows to the Past."

-    Research Initiation Grant, Virginia State University, Spring 2004, $10,000 to begin an Oral History Program, "Windows to the Past."

-    Lee S. Pattison Award for Excellence in Teaching, Cincinnati Country Day School, June 2001.

 

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