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Robert Samuel Smith

Associate Professor

Office: Holton 386
Phone: (414) 229-5207
e-mail: smithrs@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf

Degree(s):

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2002
M.A., Central Michigan University, 1997
B.A., Purdue University, 1992

Research Interests:

African American history, Civil Rights, Legal History, Race and Law

Teaching Areas:

African American history, Civil Rights history, U.S. Legal history, African Americans and Law, General African American Diaspora Studies

Courses Offered:

African Americans and the Legal Process
African American History Surveys I, II.

Selected Publications:

Robert Samuel Smith. Race, Labor & Civil Rights: Griggs v. Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

Robert Samuel Smith, Zachery Williams, Seneca Vaught, Babacar M’Baye (the Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute), “A History of Black Immigration into the United States through the Lens of the African American Civil and Human Rights Struggle.” In Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of United States Citizenship, ed. Rachel Ida Buff. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Robert Samuel Smith and Debra Smith, HBO’s The Wire: Media Placement and Post-Industrial Landscapes.” In Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: How African American History, Culture, and Studies Can Transform Africana Public Policy, ed. Zachery Williams. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.