Jeanne Theoharis

Education:

Ph.D., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - 1996 (American Studies)

A.B., Harvard University - 1991 (Afro-American Studies)

Areas of Expertise:

20th-century African American history, the contemporary politics of race and gender, social policy and urban studies.

Books and Publications

"10 Things You Didn't Know About Rosa Parks." Huffington Post, Feb. 4. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2013

"Rosa Parks Stamp on American History." The Root, Feb. 4. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2013

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Beacon Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2013

Theoharis, Jeanne and Marwa Amer. "Honoring Rosa Parks Requires More Than a Statue." The Nation, Feb. 28. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2013

Theoharis, Jeanne and Laura Rovner. "Preferring Order to Justice." American University Law Review 61.5. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

Theoharis, Jeanne and Saskia Sassen. "A Human Rights Court Gives Torture a Green Light." Nation, Oct. 15. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012

"Accidental Matriarchs and Beautiful Helpmates: Gender and the Memorialization of the Civil Rights Movement." Civil Rights From the Ground Up: Local Studies, a National Movement. Ed. Emilye Crosby. University of Georgia Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

"My Student, the 'Terrorist.'" The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

Theoharis, Jeanne and Julian Bond. "Why Don't Scholars Have Access to Rosa Parks's Archives?" Washington Post, Aug. 29. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

"Hidden in Plain Sight: Southern Exceptionalism and the Civil Rights Movement in the North." The End of the South? Integrating the Modern South and the Nation. Eds. Matthew Lassiter and Joe Crespino. Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"W-A-L-K-O-U-T: High School Students and the Development of Black and Brown Power in Los Angeles." Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level. Ed. Peniel Joseph. Palgrave Macmillan. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Featured review of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, by Thomas Sugrue. American Historical Review. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010

"Guantanamo at Home." The Nation, April 20. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

Alonso, Gaston, Noel Anderson, Celina Su and Jeanne Theoharis. School Sucks: When Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation. New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2009

Theoharis, Jeanne, Komozi Woodard and Dayo Gore. Want to Start a Revolution: Women in the Black Revolt. New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "Dropped From the Rolls: Mexican Immigrants, Race and Rights in the Era of Welfare Reform." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. Special issue on "Beyond the Numbers: How the Lived Experiences of Women Challenge the 'Success' of Welfare Reform." (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008

"From the Stone the Builders Rejected: Toward a New Civil Rights Historiography," review essay of To Stand and Fight, by Martha Biondi; Black Is a Country, by Nikhil Pal Singh; and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, by Kenneth. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007

Review of Black Liberation in the Midwest: The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970, by Kenneth S. Jolly. Journal of American History June. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2007

"'Alabama on Avalon': Rethinking the Watts Uprising and the Character of Black Protest in Los Angeles." Black Power Studies: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era. Ed. Peniel Joseph. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Black Freedom Studies: Re-imagining and Redefining the Fundamentals." History Compass. Blackwell Publishing. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"New Direction in Black Freedom Studies." History Compass. London: Blackwell. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"There Are No Accidents: On the Funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King." First of the Month. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

Marchevsky, Alejandra and Jeanne Theoharis. Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-wage Jobs and the Failure of Welfare Reform, an interdisciplinary study of immigrants and welfare reform that blends history, ethnography and political economy. New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006

Review of More Than One Struggle, by Jack Dougherty. American Historical Review April. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006

Review of Welfare Warriors, by Premilla Nadasen. Journal of American History December. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005

Theoharis, Jeanne and Komozi Woodard. Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America, a collection of essays on local civil rights organizing throughout the nation. New York: New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2005

"It's Not the Bus, It's Us: Rethinking Boston's School Desegregation and the Northern Civil Rights Movement." Proceedings of the International Conference on Focusing the Vietnam Era: Contemporary Views of American Literature and Culture in the Great Sixties. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003

Theoharis, Jeanne and Komozi Woodard. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside of the South, 1940-1980, a collection of essays on the Northern civil rights movement. Palgrave Macmillan. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2003

Theoharis, Jeanne and Athan Theoharis. These Yet to Be United States: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in America Since 1945. Harcourt Brace/Thomson Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book) 2002

'"We Saved the City': Black Struggles for Educational Equality in Boston, 1960-1976." Radical History Review. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2001

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "Welfare Reform, Globalization and the Racialization of Entitlement." American Studies. Special double issue on "Globalization, Transnationalism and the End of the American Century." Summer/Fall. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

American Association of University Women American Fellowship, 2009-10. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010

Tow Faculty Research Travel Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

Tow Travel Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship. One-year fellow at California State University, Los Angeles, through the Rockefeller program "Becoming and Belonging: The Alchemy of Identity in the Multinational Metropolis." 2003-04. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003

Center for the Humanities "Writing Lives" Mellon Fellowship, 2002-03. (Grants and Fellowships) 2002

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2002

Radcliffe Institute of Study Research Grant, to support research on Boston civil rights activists at the Schlesinger Library for Research on Women at Harvard University. (Grants and Fellowships) 2002

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"A Life History of Being Rebellious: Rosa Parks and the Black Power Movement." Annual Guest Lecture for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in African-American Studies, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Made in America: King's Dream in Today's Economy." A program in honor of Martin Luther King Day, sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum and WNYC, Jan. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Our Schools Suck: Young People Talk Back to a Segregated Nation." Landscape of Urban Education lecture series. Syracuse University. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"The State of Civil Rights History." Rockland Community College. Suffern, N.Y., February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Working for Change: African American Women's Efforts to Remedy Social Injustice, 1880s-1960s" commentator. Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008

"A Mass Movement for Civil Rights: The Struggle for Desegregation and Educational Equity in the Urban North." Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Symposium Lecture Series on "The Current Status of Civil Rights Research and Pedagogy." Jackson State University. Jackson, Miss., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

"In the Aftermath of Welfare Reform." Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work 50th Anniversary Conference. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Rethinking the Racial Politics of New Deal Citizenship, Public Policy and Social Welfare" symposium convenor and commentator. Sarah Lawrence College. Bronxville, N.Y., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2007

Commentator on Tom Sugrue's presentation "Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Unfinished Struggle for Civil Rights in the North." 20th Century American Politics and Society Workshop. Columbia University. New York, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2007

"Gender, Leadership and Local Movements" and "Local Studies: What Do They Tell Us? Why Do They Matter." Local Studies, a National Movement: Toward a Historiography of the Black Freedom Movement. SUNY Geneseo. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"New Black Power Studies." University of Michigan Metropolitan History Seminar. September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"Not the Usual Suspects: Rethinking the Black Power Movement" chairwoman and commentator. Race, Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power Conference. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"Struggles for Racial Justice in California Public Schools." Los Angeles as Trans-National Crossroads: New Directions in Community Activism and Cultural Studies. California State University, Los Angeles. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"The Northern Civil Rights Movement." NEH Teaching American History Civil Rights Group. Boston, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "Not Working: Welfare Reform and the Manufacturing of a Low-wage Labor Force." UCLA Labor Center. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "Tough Love in L.A. County: Mexican Immigrants and the Failure of Welfare-to-Work." American Studies Association Annual Conference. Oakland, Calif., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"'Alabama on Avalon': Rethinking the Metaphor of the Watts Riot and Northern Urban Protest." Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Buffalo, N.Y., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"Black Freedom Studies." Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Regional Conference. Amherst, Mass., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

"Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America" chairwoman and commentator. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

"New Directions in the Study of Black Power." Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Buffalo, N.Y., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2005

"A Hailstorm in South Central: Urban Teenagers, Representation, and the Politics of Schooling." Rockefeller Humanities Colloquium. Los Angeles, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Alabama on Avalon: Rethinking the Historiography of the Watts Riot and Northern Urban Black Protest." Rockefeller Seminar Series. California State University, Los Angeles. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "'I Wanted to Go to School, but They Sent Me to Job Club': How Welfare Reform Erodes Brown's Promise of Equity Through Education." Still Not Equal: Expanding Opportunity in Global Societies Conference. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund. Washington, D.C., September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "Educational Austerity and Spectacle in the Era of Welfare Reform." Learning Conference. Havana, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

"'Every Means at Our Disposal': Ruth Batson and the Black Freedom Struggle in Boston, 1945-1980." Sisters in Struggle: Honoring Women Veterans of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. Sarah Lawrence College. Bronxville, N.Y., March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

"Rethinking the Boston Busing Crisis: Elements of Civil Rights and Black Power." The Black Power Movement in Historical Perspective: Dialogues on Race and American Society. University of Connecticut, Storrs. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

"The Northern Civil Rights Movement." Fulbright Program. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "Reauthorizing Welfare: Public Discourse Around the 2002 Vote." Law and Society Annual International Meeting. Vancouver, British Columbia, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

Theoharis, Jeanne and Alejandra Marchevsky. "Welfare Reform and the Racial Politics of Globalization." International Colloquium on the Border. La Paz, Mexico, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001

Professional Leadership

Chairwoman, "Northern Racial Liberalism Roundtable." American Studies Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, October. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007