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Thomas C. Holt, Teaching

I began my teaching career in 1972 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Thereafter I have taught at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of California, Berkeley (one semester), and since 1988 at the University of Chicago. Throughout that teaching career my courses have focused on the history of African Americans, comparative studies of slavery and emancipation, and comparative studies of racism and racial ideologies. Most recently I have focused on the reconstruction through primary and secondary texts of the lives and times of particular historical periods, for example, the 1890s and turn of the 20th century and the civil right movement of the 1950s and 60s. Selected syllabi from recent courses are included in this section as well as links to the work of some of my former students.

syllabi

African American History: History 27200/37200/LLSO269. African-American History to 1877. (Fall 2003)
History 27403/37403. African-American Lives & Times, 1890-1903. (Spring 2005)

Comparative Studies of Racial Thought and Racism: History 27400/37400. Race & Racism in the Americas. (Winter 2005)
History 651. "Miscegenation" & Mestizaje (Fall 2003)

Comparative Studies of Slavery and Emancipation: History 84101. Beyond Slavery: Explorations in the Problem of Freedom in the Americas. (Fall 2004)

student disserations (published)

Laurie Green, University of Texas, Austin Battling the Plantation Mentality: Consciousness, Culture, and the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Memphis, 1940-1968. (UNC Press, 2007).

Hannah Rosen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Rape, Race, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Memphis. (UNC Press, forthcoming autumn 2008).

Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (UNC Press, 2005).

Mark Roman Schultz, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow (Illinois, 2004).

Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego Contagious Divides: Explorations of Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Berkeley, 2001).

student disserations (unpublished)

Amy J. Aiséirithe, Research Associate, Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Library of Congress. "'The Splintering Wheel": The 1864 U.S. Presidential Election and the Disintegration of Radical Reform, 1856-78" (Chicago, 2007).

Elizabeth N. Cooper, Asst. Prof., Florida International University. ""Dynamic Syncopation': Cultural Transformation and Popular Politics in Havana and Salvador, 1890-1940" (Chicago, 2007). (co-chaired with Dain Borges)

Jill Dupont, Asst Prof., University of Texas, Denton. "'The self in the ring, the self in society': Boxing and American culture from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis" (Chicago, 2000).

Margaret Gretchen Long, Asst. Prof., Williams College. "Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African-America Medical Care, 1840-1910" (Chicago, 2004).

Theresa Jing-Yee Mah, Center for the Study of Race, Culture and Politics, University of Chicago. "Buying into the Middle Class: Residential segregation and racial formation in United States 1920-1964" (Chicago, 1999).

Jason McGraw, Asst. Prof., University of Indiana. "Neither Slaves Nor Tyrants: Race, Labor and Citizenship in Caribbean Colombia, 1850-1930" (Chicago, 2005).

Quincy Mills, Asst. Prof., Vassar College. "'Color-Line' Barbers and the Emergence of a Black Counterpublic: A Social and Political History of Black Barbershops, 1850-1970." (Chicago, 2005)

Camille Henderson Zorich, Asst. Prof., Lake Forest College. "Black vs. White? Reexamining Residential Transition in the Chicago Metropolitan Area: Oak Park, 1960-1979" (Chicago, 2005).

Jessica L. Graham, "Representations of Racial Democracy: State Cultural Policy, Race, and National Identity in the US and Brazil, 1922-1958." (co-chaired with Dain Borges)

Allyson Vanessa Hobbs, "The Fictions of Race, Custom and Law: the Problem of Racial Passing in U.S. Social and Cultural History, 1840-1950."

Jonathan I. Levy, "The Ways of Providence: Managing Risk in 19th Century America." (co-chaired with Amy Stanley)

Terry Anne. Schulte, "'A Neck-Tie Party': Leisure and Texas Lynching, 1890-1939."