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Dr. Dirk Philipsen
Professor of History
Founder, Institute for the Study of Race Relations
Colson 101 D
e-mail: dphilips@vsu.edu
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For academic year 2009/10, Dr. Philipsen is at Duke as a John Hope Franklin Humanities Fellow
Education
- Ph.D and MA, American History, Duke University
- MA, American Studies, Free University Berlin
- BA in Macroeconomics, FHW Berlin
Research Areas
- Sustainable Economics
- History / Critique of Capitalism
- Race and Race Relations
- Economic Democracy
- Social Movements / Social Justice
Courses Taught
- History of Capitalism in the United States
- American History: 1865 to Present
- American History: Early Beginnings to Civil War
- American History Methods
- Civil Rights History
- History of Race and Race Relations
- Black Voices in American History
- Black Protest in the 20th Century
- Senior Honor’s Seminar
- New Deal to Now
- Progressivism to Depression
- U.S. Women’s History, 1865 to Present
- Experimental American History Survey 1865 to Present: The Present Seen Through Struggles of the Past
- Colloquium for Prospective History Teachers.
Graduate Seminars:
- History of Capitalism in the United States
- U.S. Society and Politics, 1945 to Present
- History of Race Relations in the U.S.
- Women in U.S. History (with emphasis on 20th-Century African American women)
- Oral History
- Black Protest in American History, From Colonial America to the Present
Virginia Commonwealth University (1993-1996):
- American History: 1865 to Present
- Oral History
- Twentieth Century United States History
- Comparative 20th-Century Social Movements, United States / Europe
- U.S. Society and Politics, 1945 to Present
- Democracy in 20th-Century U.S.
- Struggle for Democracy: A Social History of American Politics, 1865 to Present
- The Modern Interdependent World: History in the Era of Globalization
Duke University (1989-1993):
- Democracy in 20th-Century U.S.
- Comparative Twentieth Century Social Movements
- On Revolution [Russia, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland])
- Comparative Studies Senior Honors Seminar
- The Insurgent American South (as instructor)
- Marxism and Society (as instructor)
- Comparative Social Movements, U.S./Canada (as instructor).
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1995):
Free University Berlin (1985/86):
- 20th-Century Social Movements in the U.S. and Germany (as teaching assistant).
Selected Publications
- We Were the People. The Voices of East Germany's Revolutionary Autumn of 1989 (Duke University Press, 1993), 417 pages.
- “Uncle Sam’s Broken Arm—Historical Reflections on Race, Class, and Government in the Wake of Katrina,” The Journal of Race and Policy, Vol. III, no 2, (Fall 2007), 7-19.
- “…One of Those Evils That Will Be Very Difficult to Correct”: The Permanence of Race in North America,” introduction and overview to a collection of essays for a special edition of the Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 72, no 2 (Spring 2003), 190-192.
- “Investment, Obsession, and Denial: The Ideology of Race in the American Mind,” Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 72, no 2 (Spring 2003), 193-207.
- “Richmond, Virginia: Refugee Resettlement and Community Affirmation,” in Manifest Destinies: Internationalizing Americans and Americanizing Immigrants, edited by David Haines and Carol Mortland (Praeger Publishers, 2000), 39-72.
- “Culture and Race: An American Dilemma,” 2000 South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Proceedings.
- “Fear and Avoidance--The Issue of Race and the Investment in Whiteness,” in Racism and Race Relations Monograph Series (NAAAS, 2000), 237-269.
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