Erik McDuffie, Assistant Professor
Contact Information
911 S. Sixth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217-244-9232
Email: emcduffi@illinois.edu
About
Erik McDuffie is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department and Gender and Women's Studies. His research is on the history of black women in the U.S. Communist Party, black feminist thought and activism in the U.S. and the African diaspora, and black social movements.
Education
- 2003: Ph.D. New York University, History
- 1999: M.A. Temple University, History
- 1992: B.A. Hamilton College, History, Africana Studies minor
Academic Employment
- 2004 - Present: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Research Program/Gender and Women’s Studies Program
- 2003 - 2004: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Assistant Professor, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Afro-American Studies and Research Program
Selected Publications
- Esther V. Cooper's “The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism”: Black Left Feminism and the Popular Front', American Communist History, 7:2, 2008.
- ‘[A] new freedom movement of Negro women’: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War,” Radical History Review, Women, Transnationalism, and Human Rights Special Issue, 101.
- ‘[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms of government but the Soviet’: Black Women Radicals in the Garvey Movement and in the Left During the 1920s” in Michael A. Gomez, ed., Diasporic Africa: A Reader, New York University Press, 2006.
Works in Progress
- Toward a Brighter Dawn: Black Women and American Communism, 1919-1956, (book manuscript in progress)
Courses Taught
- History of Twentieth Century Black Women’s Activism
- It’s a Man’s World: Critical Interrogations of Black Masculinities
- Black Women: Histories and Cultures
- In Struggle: Black Social Movements and Activism during the 20th Century
- New World A-Coming: African American History and Life, 1936-1954
- Humanistic Approaches to African American Experiences: African American Cultural Life and Criticisms
Graduate Courses
- The Making of the Modern African Diaspora, c. 1500-Present
- Lifting as We Climb: Readings in 20th Century Black Women’s Activism
- Black Freedom Movement, 1955-Present