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Robert Self, Assistant Professor

Office: Holton Hall 381
Phone: (414) 229-6483
E-mail: rself@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1998

Current Research Interests:
Twentieth-century U.S. History
Race and Class in U.S. History
Urban History
History of Masculinity

Current Teaching Interests:
Post-1945 U.S. History
Urban History
Film and American Culture

Recent Publications:
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

"'City Lights': Urban History in the West," in A Companion to Western History, William Deverell, ed. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2003.

"'Negro Leadership and Negro Money': African American Political Organizing in Oakland Before the Panthers," in Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, Matthew Countryman, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard, eds. New York: St. Martin's, 2003.

"The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis," (co-authored with Thomas Sugrue) in A Companion to Post-1945 America, Roy Rosenzweig and Jean-Christophe Agnew, eds. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2002.

"California's Industrial Garden: Oakland and the East Bay in the Age of Deindustrialization," in Beyond the Ruins: Deindustrialization and the Meanings of Modern America, Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

"'To Plan Our Liberation': Black Power and the Politics of Place in Oakland, California, 1965-1977," Journal of Urban History, 26/6 (September 2000), 759-792.

Best Article on Urban History in any Scholarly Journal, Urban History Association, 2000.

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