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Telephone: (617) 552-6342 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 453 Email: davarian.baldwin@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., New York University, 2001
Fields of Interest
African American history; 20th-century U.S. intellectual and cultural history; urban studies; social and political theory
Academic Profile
Professor Baldwin has taught a range of courses on the African American experience and the history of modern thought. His research interests include intellectual and mass culture, Black radical thought and transnational social movements, race, space, and urban culture, competing conceptions of modernity, political economy and heritage tourism,. Baldwin has been the recipient of the Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame (2000-2001) and the Carter G. Woodson Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia (2003-2004). He is currently at work on two manuscript projects: Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Racial Foundations of U.S. Social Thought and UniverCities: How Knowledge Institutions are Re-Structuring the Urban Landscape.
Representative Publications
- Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007)
- “Culture is a Weapon in Our Struggle for Liberation: The Black Panther Party and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization,” in Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams eds. In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Directions on a Revolutionary Movement (2006)
- "Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Place of Race in U.S. Social Thought, 1892-1948," Critical Sociology (2004), reprinted in Stephan Pfohl, Aimee Van Wagenen, Patricia Arend, Abigail Brooks and Denise Leckenby eds. Culture, Power, and History: Studies in Critical Sociology (2006)
- "Black Empires, White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip Hop," Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir (1999), reprinted in Richard Mook Ed. Pop Music: Hip Hop (2007) and Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal Eds. That's the Joint! The Hip Hop Studies Reader (2004)