Faculty and Staff
David Roediger
Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History
David Roediger’s research interests include race and class in the United States, and the history of U.S. radicalism. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the making of the American Working Class and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness. He is the editor of Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson, The North and Slavery and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White as well as edition of Covington Hall’s Labor Struggles in the Deep South. His articles have appeared in New Left Review, Against the Current, Radical History Review, History Workshop Journal, The Progressive and Tennis. Roediger is a graduate of Northern Illinois University (1975) and completed a doctorate at Northwestern (1980). His current research is on immigration and racial formation in the U.S.