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Matthew
Countryman
Associate Professor
U of M Affiliation(s)
Department of History
Program in American Culture
African American Studies
Ph.D., Duke, 1999
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Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
2759 Haven Hall
Phone: 734.647.2434
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email:
mcountry@umich.edu
Fields of Study: African-American social movements; 20th-century United States history; race, postwar liberalism, and the American left; African-American politics in the post-civil-rights era.
Secondary Fields of Study:Public memory of the Civil Rights movement; right-wing social movements; the social construction of race.
About Matthew Countryman:
Professor Countryman is the Faculty Director of the OVPR Arts of Citizenship Program.
Department of History Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=54
Arts of Citizenship Program
http://ginsberg.umich.edu/artsofcitizenship/index.html
Publications:
Up South: The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). * Liberty Legacy Foundation Award winner for the best book in the history of civil rights from the Organization of American Historians *
“ ‘From Protest to Politics’: Community Control and the Emergence of Independent Black Politics in Philadelphia, 1965-1971,” (forthcoming, The Journal of Urban History).
“Questions of Gender, Class and Politics in Philadelphia's Black Power Movement,” (forthcoming, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography).
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