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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, 1776 to present
- African-American Culture, 1619-present
- Slavery and Freedom in the Modern World
- American Protest Literature and the American Radical Tradition
- Race and Ethnicity, including Critical Race Theory and "Whiteness" Studies
- Rhetoric, Communications, and Media Studies
- Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQ Studies
- Social Movement Theory
- Human Rights Studies
- Oral History
- 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)
- Co-editor with John McMillian, Protest Nation: The Radical Roots of Modern America (New Press, forthcoming, 2010)
- Co-authored with Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Human Rights and Social Movements
(OneWorld, forthcoming 2010)
- CURRENT BOOK PROJECT: A Democracy of Letters: American Abolitionism and the Struggle for Equality (forthcoming)
- CONTACT INFORMATION: mccarth3@fas; 617-504-6548 (cell); 617-495-9065 (office)
- HARVARD AFFILIATIONS:
- Tutorial Board, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
- Faculty Affiliate, Core Faculty and Director, Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- OFFICE: 208 Rubenstein, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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