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Academic Profile

Academic Background: B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1983; M.A., Ph.D. in History, UCLA, 1987.

Research Interests: African-American history, labor history, jazz studies, and social movements in the African diaspora.

Appointments: Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA; former professor at NYU and University of Michigan.

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize finalist for Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.

Publications: Author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (UNC Press, 1990) and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002).

Additional Contributions: Frequent contributor to public media, including NPR and The Nation.