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.