Faculty and Staff
David R. Roediger
Professor
Department of History
University of Illinois
Phone: (217) 333-1155
Email: droedige@illinois.edu
Degrees:
B.S.in Education. Northern Illinois University, 1975.
Ph.D. in History. Northwestern University, 1980.
Recent Positions:
2000 to present—Kendrick Babcock Chair of History and Afro-American Studies. University of Illinois.
1996 to 2000--Chair. American Studies Program. University of Minnesota.
1994 to 2000--Professor of History. University of Minnesota.
Recent Edited Books:
The North and Slavery. With Martin Blatt. New York: Garland, 1998. Includes my afterword “Why Douglass Knew,” pp. 177-85. Paperback in 1999.
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White. New York: Schocken Books, 1998.
Covington Hall’s Labor Struggles in the Deep South. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1999.
W.E.B. Du Bois’ John Brown. New York: Random House (Modern Library), 2001.
Recent Books:
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London and New York: Verso Books, 1991.
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Class and Politics. London and New York: Verso Books, 1994. Hardcover and paper.
Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.