ROBERT GREGG

Arts and Humanities

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Pomona, NJ 08240-0195

(609) 652-4431

e-mail:greggr@stockton.edu

Education

1989 Ph.D. History, University of Pennsylvania. Preliminary Doctoral Examinations passed with Distinction, July 1985. Fields: United States (19th & 20th Centuries), Comparative History, African-American History.

1982 M.A. History, Edinburgh University, completed June 1981.

Teaching I: Positions/Experience

July 2006- Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (RSC).

Jan. 2005-6 Interim Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities (RSC).

Sept.2005- Professor of History (RSC).

2000-2005 Associate Professor of History (RSC).

1996-2000 Assistant Professor of History (RSC).

1994-96 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

1992-93 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania.

1991-92 Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College.

1989-91 Lecturer, Princeton University.

1989/86 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania. College of General Studies Summer School.

Academic Honors and Awards

2004 Research & Professional Development Mini Grant (RSC).

2004 Research & Professional Development Grant (RSC).

2003 Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (RSC).

2000 Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (RSC).

1998 Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellowship, Princeton University, 1998-99.

1996 American Philosophical Society, Grant. Research trip to Pune, India, Summer 1997.

1993 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1993-1994.

1993 National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Programs. Grant for Exhibit, “Healing the Body and the Mind: Sport and the Black Community in Philadelphia.”

1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award.

1988/87 Mellon Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1987-1989.

1987 Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), 1987-88.

1985 Roy F. Nichols Fellowship, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1985-86.

1979. Edinburgh-Pennsylvania Exchange. Undergraduate exchange student at the University of Pennsylvania, 1979-80.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Inside Out, Outside In: Essays in Comparative History (London: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin’s, 1999).

Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993; paper 1998).

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture (London: Routledge; December 23, 2000), co-editor with Gary McDonogh (Bryn Mawr College) and Cindy Wong (CUNY). Contributed about 150 entries (over 50,000 words).

Web work:

Histrionics: http://loki.stockton.edu/~greggr/histrionics10.htm;

Histrionyx: Rethinking Migration in American History (book-length volume; 56,000 words) http://loki.stockton.edu/~greggr/front_cover.htm

Articles:

"Progress and Collateral Damage" -- forthcoming.

"Valleys of Fear: Policing Terror in an Imperial Age" -- forthcoming.

Co-author with Madhavi Kale, “The Negro and the Dark Princess: Two Legacies of the Universal Races Congress.” Radical History Review (forthcoming).

“Uneasy Streets: Police, Corruption and Imperial Progressives in Bombay, London and New York City,” in William Chester Jordan and Emmanuel Krieke, eds., Corrupt Histories (Rochester University Press, 2004).

“Personal Calvaries: Sport in Philadelphia's African American Communities, 1920-1960.” Culture, Sport, Society 6 (Summer/Autumn 2003), 88-115; special issue “Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles for Status,” edited by J.A. Mangan and Andrew Ritchie. [Published also as Struggles for Status (Frank Cass, 2004).

“Making the World Safe for American History,” in Antoinette Burton, ed., After the Imperial Turn (Duke University Press, 2003).

“Afterword” in W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Negro (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

“Sure, I’m a Marxist.” “Reflections” in Radical History Review (2001).

“From Black Bourgeoisie to African American Middle Class, 1957 to the Present,” in William Shade & William Scott, eds., Upon These Shores (New York: Routledge, 2000).

“Class, Culture, and Empire: E. P. Thompson and the Making of Social History,” Journal of Historical Sociology (winter, 1998).

“The New African American Middle Class,” Economic and Political Weekly (India), November 1998.

“Unreal Cities: Bombay, London, New York,” Radical History Review (“Teaching Radical History” special issue: “Empire and Encounters, II”) 70: 131-148, 1998.

Co-author with Madhavi Kale, “The Empire and Mr. Thompson: The Making of Indian Princes and the English Working Class,” Economic and Political Weekly (India) Vol. XXXII, No. 36, September 6, 1997, 2273-88.

“Giant Steps: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Historical Enterprise,” in Michael B. Katz and Thomas Sugrue, eds., W.E.B. Du Bois, Race and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and its Legacy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), pp. 77-99. [review]

“Apropos Exceptionalism: Imperial Location and the Comparative Histories of the United States and South Africa,” in Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris, American Exceptionalism?: U.S. Working Class Formation in an International Context (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997).

“James Campbell’s Songs of Zion,” in Shula Marks, Hilary Sapire, and Rick Halpern, Beyond White Supremacy (London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1997).

Co-author with Irene Ursula Burnham, Gallery Guide, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia: “‘Let This Be Your Home’: Philadelphia's African-American Migration” (1990).

“Philadelphia’s African Methodist Churches and the Great Migration,” in Irene Ursula Burnham, ed., Let This Be Your Home: The African American Migration to Philadelphia, 1900-1940 (Philadelphia: Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, 1991).

“The Earnest Pastor's Heated Term: Robert J. Williams' Pastorate at ‘Mother’ Bethel, 1916-1920,” in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January, 1989.

Review Essays

George Fredrickson, “Black Liberation” & Rob Nixon, “Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood,” in Social History (October 1997).

“Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Whale.” Kwame Anthony Appiah, “In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture,” in American Quarterly 45 (4, Dec. 1993).

“Group Portrait with Lady.” Joe William Trotter, Jr., ed., “The Great Migration in Historical Perspective,” in Reviews in American History 20 (3, Sept. 1992).

Book Reviews

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, “The Many-Headed Hydra” in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (2003)

Gary Gerstle, “American Crucible” in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2002)

Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Provincializing Europe” in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (2002).

Daniel T. Rodgers, “Atlantic Crossings,” in Social History (winter 2001)

Cedric J. Robinson, “Black Protest Movements,” in Journal of Southern History (2001)

Douglas Brinkley, “Rosa Parks,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 6, 2000.

Adolph Reed, Jr., “W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Political Tradition,” in Social History (January 2000).

Patricia Bradley, “Slavery, Propaganda and the American Revolution,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer (January, 1999).

Kathie Friedman-Kasaba, “Memories of Migration,” in Social History (Fall 1999).

Milton C. Sernett, “Bound for the Promised Land,” in The Journal of American History (Fall, 1998).

David M. Fahey, “Temperance and Racism,” Contemporary Drug Issues (Fall, 1998).

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History,” in Social History (January 1998).

Clayborne Carson, et al., eds., “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., vol. II: Rediscovering Precious Values,” in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History (Summer 1998).

James T. Campbell, “Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa,” in The Journal of American History (September, 1996).

Stephen J. Ochs, “Desegregating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871-1960,” in Ethnic and Racial Studies 19 (4, October 1996), 973-74.

Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn, “Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945,” in Journal of Southern History (September, 1995).

Clarence E. Walker, “Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals,” in 1999 – Zeitschrift fur Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (January 1993).

Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, “From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America,” in International Migration Review (23, Fall 1989).

Papers and Conferences

“Hollywood’s Racial Limit.” Bryn Mawr College Institute for Visual Culture, Spring, 2005.

Panelist: Jan Woodruff’s America’s Congo. American Historical Association Conference, Jan. 2005 (panel organized by self).

Commentator: Raj Chandavarkar, “The Perils of Proximity: Rivalries and Conflicts in the Making of the Neighborhood in Bombay City in the Early Twentieth Century.” Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, October 2004.

“Progress and Collateral Damage.”  Munk Center for Insternational Studies, University of Toronto, Conference: “‘Collateral Damage’: Civilian Casualties from Antiquity through the Gulf Wars,” May 28-29, 2004.

Panelist: “Teaching Race, Teaching Modern America: Pedagogy, Syllabi, and New Scholarship – Five Year Retrospective.” Modern America Workshop, Department of History, Princeton University, October, 2003.

“Histrionyx: Rethinking Migration, Rethinking Publication.” University of Toronto, Workshop in American Studies, September 2003; and Day of Scholarship, RSC of NJ, April 12, 2004.

“The Negro and the Dark Princess: Two Legacies of the Universal Races Congress.” World History Association Conference, Atlanta, June 2003.

“Alias Smith and Brown: Policing Prostitution in Progressive Cities.” Social Science Historians Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2000.

“Hollywood’s ‘Racial Limit’: Movies in Bombay and New York in the 1920s.” Organization of American Historians, April 1, 2000; Conference: “Pairing Empires: Britain and America, 1857-1947,” Johns Hopkins University, November 2000.

Commentator: Dilip Simeon’s, “The Currency of Sentiment: An Essay on Informal Accumulation in Colonial India.” Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, April 1999.

“Uneasy Streets: Police, Corruption and Imperial Progressives in Bombay, London, and New York City.” Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, March 26, 1999.

Panelist: “Comparative Histories,” Modern America Workshop, Department of History, Princeton University, February 16, 1999.

Panelist: “Teaching Race, Teaching Modern America: Pedagogy, Syllabi, and New Scholarship,” Modern America Workshop, Department of History, Princeton University, October 27, 1998.

Commentator: “‘Unreal Cities’: Authority and Public Space in Britain, 1800-1918,” Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, April 4, 1998.

Panelist: “Local and Regional Community Studies as Entrees into the Black Experience,” U of PA Conference: “African American Studies: the 21^st Century and Beyond,” Oct. 17, 1997.

“Class, Culture, and Empire: E. P. Thompson and the Making of Social History.” St Antony’s College Conference, Oxford University, “Racializing Class, Classifying Race,” July 1997.

Commentator: “Varieties of National Culture: ‘Celtic’ and ‘Imperial’ Identities,” Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies, April 12, 1997.

“Comment on James Campbell's Songs of Zion.” Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Conference on United States and South African Comparative History, May 1996.

“Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression.” Meeting of the Association of American Religion, Philadelphia, November, 1995; Franklin and Marshall College, March 1992.

“Contesting White Mythologies: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Historical Enterprise.” University of Pennsylvania, W.E.B. Du Bois Centenary Conference, May 5-6, 1995.

“Apropos Exceptionalism: Imperial Location and the Comparative Histories of the United States and South Africa.” Commonwealth Fund Colloquium, “American Exceptionalism?: U.S. Working Class Formation in an International Context.” University College, London, February 1995.

“Personal Calvaries: Religion and Sport in Philadelphia's African American Communities, 1900-1950.” February 15, 1994, Bryn Mawr College; New Jersey Institute of Technology, March 1995.

“The African-American War Experience – World War I.” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, March, 1994 (Part of the Lecture Series, “Meeting the Challenge,” presented in conjunction with the exhibition: “I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin”).

“Greetings at the Gates of the City: Philadelphia's African Methodists in the ‘Great Migration.’” Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Annual Conference, May 1993.

“Invisible Institution, Invisible Migration: The Church and Women in the Historiography of Migration.” Columbia University, March 1992; Brown University, April 1992.

“Many Promised Lands: ‘Migrants’, ‘Mudsills’, and ‘Refugees’ in the Great Migration, 1890-1930.” Five College Social History Seminar, Smith College, December, 1991.

“Many Promised Lands: Philadelphia's Migrants and Refugees, 1922-24.” American History Seminar Group, University College, London, January 1991; Harvard University, January 1991.

“‘Sharing the Heritage’: The African-American Migration to Philadelphia.” Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, April 1989.

“‘Let This Be Your Home’: Philadelphia's African Methodists and the Southern Migrants.” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting (Organizer of Session), April 1989; Knox College, April, 1989; Pennsylvania Historical Association, May 1993.

“The Earnest Pastor's Heated Term: Robert J. Williams’ Pastorate at ‘Mother’ Bethel, 1916-1920.” Northeast Seminar on Black Religion, February 1988.