Rate My Professor Robert Bauman

Bauman is an award-winning scholar who received the Washington State Historical Society Charles Gates Award for the best article published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2005 for “Jim Crow in the Tri-Cities, 1943-1950” and the WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Excellence Award in 2022. His major publications include Fighting to Preserve a Nation’s Soul: America’s Ecumenical War on Poverty (University of Georgia Press, 2019), Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs and Richland to 1943 (co-edited with Robert Franklin, WSU Press, 2018), and Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region (co-edited with Robert Franklin, WSU Press, 2020). He served on the Pacific Historical Review Editorial Board from 2015 to 2019, the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Committee from 2016 to 2017, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Review Panel for Digital Projects for the Public in 2015. Bauman has delivered invited presentations on the War on Poverty at Dartmouth College, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Western History Association, American Society of Church History, and National Council on Public History.