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• NAME: Timothy Patrick McCarthy
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: America
• Ph.D.: Columbia University (History)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • U. S. History, American Revolution through Reconstruction
  • African-American Culture, 1619 to the present
  • Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World
  • American Protest Literature and the History of Radicalism
  • Race and Ethnicity, including Critical Race Theory and "Whiteness" Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality, including Queer Theory
  • Oral History
  • Major Authors: Stowe, Douglass, Lincoln, Whitman, Twain, Du Bois, O'Connor, Hughes, Steinbeck, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, King, and Kushner
• DISSERTATION: "A Culture of Dissent: American Abolitionism and the Ordeal of Equality" (Advisor: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia)
• BOOKS PUBLISHED:
• Co-editor with John McMillian, The Radical Reader: A Documentary Anthology of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003)
• Co-editor with John Stauffer, Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006)
• CURRENT BOOK PROJECT: The Master's Tools: Literary Abolitionism and the Struggle for Equality (forthcoming)
• CONTACT INFORMATION: mccarth3@fas; 617-504-6548 (cell); 617-495-9065 (office)

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