Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences   

Contact Information

Office: 114 Humber-White House, 424 West Hancock Street

Office phone: (478) 445-4691

E-mail address: jennifer.wallach@gcsu.edu

History/Geography/Philosophy Homepage

Education: Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies, The University of Massachusetts (2004)

Dr. Wallach's broad area of specialization is the history of African-Americans in the South since the Civil War. Her particular interests include questions of historical memory and historical methodology, African-American and Southern autobiographies, and the Civil Rights Movement. She has an interest in Southern and African-American food history.

Courses Taught  

U.S. history since 1877, African-American history, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, Slavery in the United States, the Era of Segregation, and Black Intellectual and Cultural History.

Current Projects 

Under Contract: Biography of Richard Wright for Ivan R. Dee series of African-American biographies. John David Smith general editor. Publication date scheduled for spring 2010.

"Introduction" to Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class (1941) by Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardener, & Mary R. Gardner. Reprint from the Southern Classics Series at the University of South Carolina Press. John G. Sproat and Mark M. Smith general editors, forthcoming May 2009.

"Replicating History in a Bad Way?: White Activists and Black Power in SNCC's Arkansas Project. In Arkansas Historical Quarterly, forthcoming Fall 2008.

Closer to the Truth than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow.  University of Georgia Press, 2008.

“Building a Bridge of Words: The Literary Autobiography as Historical Source Material,” Biography, 29.3 (Summer 2006). 

“Martin Luther King, Jr.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2^nd Ed. , William A. Darity, ed. Forthcoming from Macmillan Reference.

“Fawn Brodie and the Struggle for the Historical Memory of Thomas Jefferson,” Clio’s Psyche, June 2006. 

"The Vindication of Fawn Brodie," The Massachusetts Review, Summer 2002.

“Our National Amnesia about Race: A Review Essay of David Blight’s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory,” The Ethnic Studies Review (2001).

Contributed twenty entries to the Encyclopedia of African American Society, Gerald Jaynes, ed. Sage Publications, 2005.

Contributed thirty-five entries to forthcoming encyclopedia, The Contemporary World, 1968 to the Present, Gerald Horne, ed. Oxford University Press, African American History Reference Series.      

 
Last updated: 9/13/08