• Professor, American Culture Studies
• Professor, History

Iver Bernstein

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• Ph.D. at Yale University
• M.Ph. at Yale University
• M.A. at Yale University
• B.A. at Brown University

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'Blend of meticulous, imaginative scholarship' Pre-eminent African-American studies historian to serve as Distinguished Visiting Scholar Feb. 21, 2007 -- Robin D.G. Kelley, Ph.D., one of the country's pre-eminent scholars in African-American history, will serve as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Washington University Feb. 28-March 1. During his visit, he will give two public talks. Kelley, who is professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC), is a leading scholar of the modern civil rights movement, jazz studies and African-American music and culture.

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Experience

Acting instructor, Yale University 1982 / Adjunct assistant professor, New York University 1984 / Visiting assistant professor, University of Chicago 1985-86 / Assistant professor to professor, Washington University 1986- / Sesquicentennial Commission, Arts & Sciences Co-Chair, 2001- / Chair, Graduate Committee, 2002-

George Washington Eggleston Prize, Yale University, for doctoral dissertation, 1985 / National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend 1987 / American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., 1987-88 /Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow, 1990 / Mayer Fund Fellow of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1993 / Fletcher Jones Visiting Professorship, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1995-96 (declined) / American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1995-96 / Oxford-Smithsonian Lecturer, Smithsonian Institution, 1998 / Advisory Board, Lincoln Prize / Avery Craven Prize Committee, OAH, 2000 / Kemper Faculty Award, 2000 / Special Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 2005

Served as Speaker and Commentator on History Channel, C-Span BookTV, Washington Post, Newsweek.Com on nineteenth-century American history, the Civil War, New York City history and draft riots, Abraham Lincoln, and related subjects

Select Books

* The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 1990

* Stripes and Scars: The Origins of the Great Sacrifice of the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Select Journal Articles

* Co-author, "Work, Family and Class Values in the Nineteenth Century," International Labor and Working Class History, Fall 1981

* "Expanding the Boundaries of the Political: Workers and Political Change in the Nineteenth Century," International Labor and Working Class History, Fall 1987

* "What Did the New York City Draft Rioters Think They Were Doing?" in New York and the Rise of American Capitalism, eds. C. Wright et al., New York Historical Society 1989

* "Moral Perspective and the Cycles of Jacksonian History," Journal of Policy History, Summer 1994

* "The Volcano Under the City: Draft Rioting in New York City and State, 1863," in State of the Union: New York and the Civil War, ed. Harold Holzer, Fordham, 2002

* "Abraham Lincoln's Body and Body Politic: Two Puzzles in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political Language and Culture," in The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln, eds. Harold Holzer and John Y. Simon, Fordham, 2002

* "Securing Freedom: The Challenges of Black Life in Civil War New York," in Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris, eds., Slavery and the Making of New York: The African American Experience, The New Press, 2005

* "Towards National Consciousness: The "Body Politic," Martyrdom and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americans' Rhetorical Responses to Evil," in Steven Mintz and John Stauffer, eds., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Race, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, University of Massachusetts Press, 2006

Currently in Progress

* The idea of moral reparation / The problem of compensation and the ideological antecedents of affirmative action in nineteenth-century America