| Dr. Martha Biondi |
Associate Professor of African American Studies and History
Address:
African American Studies Department
3-137 Crowe
1880 S. Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208-2209
Phone: 847-491-4806
Fax: 847-491-4803
Email:
m-biondi@northwestern.edu |
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Courses:
AFAM 220 The Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement
AFAM 212 Introduction to African American History
AMAM 370 Black Activist Debates
Degree:
Ph.D. Columbia University
M.A. Columbia University
B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University
Current Research:
"The Black Student Movement and the Origins of African American Studies". This book-length project examines the explosive emergence of Black Studies from 1967 to1975 when direct action protest by African American students led to the creation of over 250 African American Studies programs, departments and institutes. Black Studies became a critical battleground as the Black Liberation movement moved from "civil rights" to "Black power."
Recent Awards:
2003:
Thomas J. Wilson Prize awarded to To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City by the Board of Syndics of Harvard University Press as the best first book of the year.
2003-2004:
Department of African American Studies Teaching Award
1997:
Dissertation nominated for the Allan Nevins Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation by the Society of American Historians
1997:
Dissertation nominated for the Columbia University Bancroft Prize.
Recent Publications:
"Student Protest, 'Law and Order' and the Origins of African American Studies in California," forthcoming, in volume edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen, Columbia University Press.
"The Rise of the Reparations Movement," Radical History Review 87 (Fall 2003)
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