Joe William Trotter Jr.
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Joe William Trotter Jr. (born 18 June 1945) is a Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...
. He is an expert in
African-American history African-American history started with the forced transportation of List of ethnic groups of Africa, Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, ...
.


Education and career

Trotter received his BA degree from
Carthage College Carthage College is a private college in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1847, it is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Carthage awards bachelor's degrees with majors in more than 40 subject areas and maste ...
in
Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha () is a city in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Wisconsin, fourth-most populous city in Wisconsin, with a population of 99,986 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. S ...
and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...
. He presides over numerous committees, including the Executive Councils of the
Organization of American Historians The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad incl ...
and the
Society for Historical Archaeology The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) is a professional organization of scholars concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (15th century-present). Founded in 1967, the SHA promotes scholarly research and the dissemination of knowledg ...
, the Program Committee of the
Oral History Association The Oral History Association (OHA) is a professional association for oral historians and others interested in advancing the practice and use of oral history.American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world, claiming over 10,000 members. Founded in 1884, AHA works to protect academic free ...
, as well as Nominating and Program Committees of OAH and Francis B. Simkins Prize and Program Committee of SHA. Trotter also was a member and vice president of the Board of Trustees of the H. John Heinz III Regional History Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate, and past President of the
Labor and Working-Class History Association The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is a non-profit association of academics, educators, students, and labor movement and other activists that promotes research into and publication of materials on the history of the labor mov ...
. Trotter also affiliated with the Ohio School Boards Association and is a frequent contributor to ''
Jacobin Magazine ''Jacobin'' is an American socialist magazine based in New York. Bhaskar Sunkara was its founding editor. the magazine reported a paid print circulation of 75,000 and over 3 million monthly online visitors. Established in 2010, Jacobin's cir ...
''. In 2019, Trotter was elected a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...
.


Writings

*''Coal, class, and color : Blacks in southern West Virginia, 1915-32'' (1977) *''Black Milwaukee : the making of an industrial proletariat, 1915-45'' (1984) *''The Great migration in historical perspective : new dimensions of race, class, and gender'' (1991) *''From a raw deal to a New Deal? : African Americans, 1929-1945'' (1995) *''African Americans in the industrial age : a documentary history, 1915-1945'' (1996) *''River Jordan : African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley'' (1998) *''African American urban experience : perspectives from the colonial period to the present'' (2004) *''African American urban history since World War II'' (2009) *''Race and renaissance : African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II'' (2010) *''Workers on arrival : Black labor in the making of America'' (2019)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trotter, Joe William Jr. 1945 births Living people Carthage College alumni University of Minnesota alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Organization of American Historians Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Place of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers