Department Faculty
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Theresa Runstedtler Adjunct Professor of African & African American Studies Graduate Coordinator of African American Studies and Transnational Cultural Studies Co-Convener, Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice, a working group of the Baldy Center on Law and Social Policy Office: 1015 Clemens Hall Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 pm |
Education
PhD in African American Studies and History, Yale University, 2007
BA (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
Articles:
"White Anglo-Saxon Hopes and Black Americans’ Atlantic Dreams: Jack Johnson and the British Boxing Colour Bar." Journal of World History (Forthcoming 2010).
“The Black Atlantic from Below: African American Boxers and the Routes of Race,” in eds. Matthew Guterl and Vivian Halloran. Markings: Blackness and Global Culture (Rutgers University Press, Forthcoming)
"Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line." Radical History Review, Special Issue: Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora 103 (2009).
"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.
(A reprint of this essay will also appear in Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, ed. David K. Wiggins, Forthcoming December 2009.)
"'Caught between the devil and the deep white sea': Black Canada's Case of Diasporic Dys-funk-tion." Canadian Issues (Fall 2005).
Reviews and Entries:
Review of Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s for American Studies (2009).
“Muscular Christianity,” Encyclopedia of World History, ABC-CLIO, 2006.
Current Research Projects
Revising Book Manuscript – "Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson," (Under contract with University of California Press)
“Blackface Minstrelsy and the Global Contours of Race,” (Research project in-progress).
“Jim Crow, John Bull, and the Black Atlantic: Educational Cooperation and Imperial Management in the 1920s,” (Article in-progress)
“Boxing Follows the Flag: Race, Manhood, and U.S. Expansion during the Interwar Years,” (Article in-progress)
Frequently Taught Courses
Undergraduate:
• World
Civilizations to 1500
• Black
Popular Culture
• Black Atlantic World
Graduate:
• Cultures
of U.S. Empire
• Race
& Culture in America
• Race, Gender & the Body
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:
Co-convener, Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice, a Working Group of the Baldy Center for Social Policy
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Co-organizer, Thinking Beyond the Nation-State, Baldy Center Symposium (Fall 2009)
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Co-organizer, Building Connections: U.S.-Canadian Symposium on Race, University of Toronto (Spring 2008)
American Studies Department Graduate Committee
Chair, American Studies Department Web and Print Publicity Committee
African & African American Studies Department Advisory Council
Awards and Grants
• UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship (Fall 2008)
• Nominated for theAllan Nevins Dissertation Prize of the Society of American Historians (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)