David Roediger
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Professor David R. Roediger PhD |
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| Born |
July 13, 1952 (age 64) Columbia, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Northern Illinois University Northwestern University (PhD) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Organization | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
David R. Roediger (born July 13, 1952) is the Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Kansas University, where he has been since the fall of 2014. Previously, he was an American Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests include the construction of racial identity, class structures, labor studies, and the history of American radicalism. He writes from a Marxist theoretical framework.
Roediger was born on July 13, 1952 in Columbia, Illinois. He attended local public schools through high school. He earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Northern Illinois University in 1975. He went on to do graduate study and earned a PhD in history from Northwestern University in 1980, where he wrote a dissertation under the direction of George M. Fredrickson.
He was assistant editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University from 1979 to 1980.
After receiving his doctorate, Roediger was a lecturer and assistant professor of history at Northwestern University from 1980 to 1985. He served as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri in 1985, rising to full professor in 1992. He moved to the University of Minnesota in 1995, and was chair of the university's American Studies Program from 1996 to 2000.
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