Assistant Professor Fred Knight Clark B-344 970-491-6854 Fred.Knight@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
M.A. University of California, Riverside
B.A. Morehouse College

Specializing in African-American History, African Diaspora

 

Current Research Interests:

African Workers on Anglo-American Slave Plantations
Black Visions of the Natural World

 

Courses to be taught in the next two years:

HIST250: African-American History to 1865
HIST251: African-American History Since 1865
HIST481: Slavery in the Americas
HIST492: Capstone Seminar

Major Publications:

• In An Ocean of Blue: West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800, in Diasporic Africa: A Reader (Michael Gomez, ed.) New York: New York University Press, 2006

• Labor in the Slave Community; in Blackwell Companion to African-American History, (Alton Hornsby, Jr. ed.) Oxford, England: Blackwell Press, 2005

Fellowships/Major Grants:

• P. Sterling Stuckey Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Lectureship in African-American History, History Department, University of California, Riverside, 2005

• Post-Doctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship, Center for the Advanced Study of Race, Ethnicity and Society in Africa and the Atlantic World, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, 2001-2002

• Research Fellowship, John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Brown University