Department Faculty
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Theresa Runstedtler Adjunct Professor of African American Studies |
Education
Ph.D. in African American Studies and History, Yale University, 2007
B.A. (summa cum laude) in History and English Literature, York University (Toronto), 1998
Areas of Specialization
U.S. Cultural and Social History, Reconstruction
to the Present
Race,
Popular Culture, and the Media
African
American and African Diaspora Studies
U.S. Transnational/Imperial History
U.S. Racial and Ethnic Formations
Race
and Globalization
European
Race Relations
Recent Publications
"In Sports the Best Man Wins: How Joe Louis Whupped Jim Crow," in Amy Bass, ed., In the Game: Race, Identity and Sports in the Twentieth Century. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
"'Caught between the devil and the deep white sea': Black Canada's Case of Diasporic Dys-funk-tion." Canadian Issues (Fall 2005).
"Muscular Christianity." Encyclopedia of World History, ABC-CLIO, 2006.
Current Research Projects
Revising Dissertation for Publication – "Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson"
"Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line," Special Issue: Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora, Radical History Review, (Forthcoming 2009).
"The Black Atlantic from Below: African American Boxers and Routes of Race," in Matthew Guterl and Vivian Halloran, eds. Darkness Visible: New Essays on Blackness in the Modern World.(UNC Press: forthcoming)
"Jim Crow, John Bull, and the Black Atlantic: Educational Cooperation and Imperial Management in the 1920s," article in-progress
Frequently Taught Courses
Undergraduate:
• World
Civilizations to 1500
• Black
Popular Culture
Graduate:
• Cultures
of U.S. Empire
• Race
& Culture in America
Professional Activities
National
Memberships
American
Studies Association
American
Historical Association
Organization
of American Historians
Association
for the Study of African American Life and History
UB
Service
Advisory
Council, Buffalo Seminar for Racial Justice
American Studies Department Graduate Committee
Awards and Grants
• UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship (Fall 2008)
• Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for best Yale dissertation on African American culture (2008)
•
Leylan Fellowship for Dissertation Writing (2006-2007)
• Canadian
Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2006)
•
Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Dissertation Research Fellowship
(2004-2005)
• Organization
of American Historians, La Pietra Fellowship for Transnational History (2005),
Merrill Travel Grant (2005)
• Gilder
Lehrman Institute, Research Fellowship (2005)
•
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Dissertation Research Fellowship
(2004)
• Yale
Beinecke Library, Research Fellowship (2004)