CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Richard J. M. Blackett
Address: Department of History
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351802
Nashville, TN 37235-1802
Richard.j.blackett@vanderbilt.edu
Education:
1965-1969 B.A. (Hons) International Relations—Upper Second Class
University of Keele, England
1973 M.A. American Studies, University of Manchester, England
Thesis: “Afro-American Social and Political Thought,
1954-1970: A Critical Analysis”
Teaching Experience:
2113-2014 Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History, Oxford University
2002-- Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Moores Distinguished Chair of History and African-
American Studies, University of Houston.
Professor, Department of History, Indiana University
Professor, Department of History, Indiana University
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor, Department of History, Indiana University
Acting Editor, Journal of American History
Professor, Department of History, Indiana University
Associate Editor, JAH
Professor, Department of History, Indiana University
Associate Editor, JAH
Associate Professor, Department of Black Studies,
University of Pittsburgh
(Joint appointment, Department of History)
Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies,
University of Pittsburgh
Instructor, Department of Black Studies; Research Associate,
University Center for International Studies; Co-ordinator,
Caribbean Studies Program (1971-72); Co-ordinator, Caribbean
Lecture Series, University of Pittsburgh
Instructor, State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh (1971-73)
Jan. – June, 1971 Part-time Instructor, Department of Black Studies,
University of Pittsburgh
Longton Grammar School, Stoke, England and Shoreditch
Comprehensive School, London (part-time)
Publications:
Books:
Making Freedom. The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
(2013)
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001)
ed. Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom. The Escape of William and Ellen Craft ( 1999).
Thomas Morris Chester. Black Civil War Correspondent (1989)
Beating Against the Barriers. Biographical Essays in Nineteenth
Century Afro-American History (1986)
Building an Anti-Slavery Wall. Black Americans in the Atlantic
Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 (1983)
Chapters & Articles:
“The Underground Railroad and the Struggle Against Slavery,” History
Workshop Journal, October 2014
“Montgomery Bell, William E. Kennedy, and Middle Tennessee and Liberian
Colonization,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXIX, No. 4, Winter
2010.
“Dispossessing Massa. Fugitive Slaves and the Politics of Slavery,”
Nineteenth Century American History, Vol. 10, No.2, June 2009.
“And There Shall Be No More Sea. William Lloyd Garrison and the
Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement,” in James Brewer Stewart, ed.
William Lloyd Garrison At Two Hundred (2008)
“The Transatlantic Address to Lincoln: Birmingham and the American Civil
War,” American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2002
“Cracks in the Anti-Slavery Wall. Frederick Douglass’s Second
Visit to Britain (1859-1860) and the coming of the American
Civil War,” in Martin Crawford and Alan Rice, eds., Liberating
Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform (1999)
“British Views of the Confederacy” in Joseph P. Ward, ed.
Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock
and Roll (2003)
“To Reach the People With Abolition Doctrines. The Anti Slavery
Press and the American Civil War,” Atlanta History (Summer 1998)
“The Hamic Connection: African-Americans and the
Caribbean, 1820-65” in Brian Moore and Swithin Wilmot, eds.
Before and After 1865. Education, Politics, and Regionalism
in the Caribbean (1998).
“African-Americans, the British Working Class and the American
Civil War,” Slavery & Abolition, (August 1996)
“African-Americans, British Public Opinion, and Civil War
Diplomacy” in ed. Robert E. May, The Union, the Confederacy,
and the Atlantic Rim (May 1995).
Introduction, Indiana’s African-American Heritage. Essays
From Black History News & Notes (1993).
“A Forgotten Professor, The Life of William G. Allen,” Civil
War History, March 1980
“Return to the Motherland: Robert Campbell, A Jamaican in
Early Colonial Lagos,” Phylon, December 1979
“Anglo-American Abolitionist Opposition to Liberian Colonization,
1831-1833,” The Historian, February 1979
“Freedom or the Martyr’s Grave: Black Pittsburgh’s Aid to the
Fugitive Slave,” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine,
April 1978
“Fugitive Slaves in Britain: The Odyssey of William and
Ellen Craft,” Journal of American Studies, April 1978
“Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell: Black Americans
in Search of an African colony,” Journal of Negro History,
January 1977
“In Search of International Support for African colonization;
Martin R. Delany’s Visit to England, 1860,” Canadian Journal
of History, January 1976.
Guest Editor: “Racism; A World Perspective,” Black Lines,
Winter 1972.
“The Role of West Indians in the Afro-American Struggle,”
Black Lines, Autumn, 1972.
“British Groups Against Racism,” Study Encounter,
(Geneva, Switzerland) 1971.
Courses Taught: Graduate Colloquia: Afro-American History
U.S. Biography
Caribbean History
Afro-American History (Survey)
Afro-American Social and Intellectual History, 1817-1860
(Graduate Seminar)
New World Slavery
Professional Activities: Conference Program Committee, Annual Conference,
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and
History, New Orleans.
Editorial Board: Slavery and Abolition
Contours
American Nineteenth Century History
Civil War History
Consultant, Pittsburgh School Board, Latin American
History Project for Middle Schools.
Chairman, Nominating Committee, Association of
Caribbean Historians.
President, Association of Caribbean Historians.
Member, Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association.
Committee on Committees, American Historical Association
Jameison Fellowship committee, American Historical Association.
Wesley-Logan Prize Committee, Association for the Study of
Afro-American Life and History.
ABC-Clio Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians.
Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Founders Award, Museum of the Confederacy.
James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Frances B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association.
Advisory Board: Frederick Douglass Papers
Black Petitions Project
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