Participant Info
- First Name
- Marsha
- Last Name
- Barrett
- Country
- United States
- State
- 13
- meb@illinois.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Website URL
- https://history.illinois.edu/directory/profile/meb
- Keywords
- Political History, Policy History, African American History, Racial Politics
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- Limited availability during 2020 due to research leave.
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research explores modern U.S. political history, public policy, political culture, and racial politics. I am completing a book manuscript on Nelson Rockefeller, the four-term governor of New York, that examines moderate Republicanism in the mid-twentieth century to contextualize the decline of centrism in American politics after the passage of 1960s federal civil rights legislation.
PhD, History, Rutgers University, BA, History, Yale University
- Recent Publications
“‘Both Parties Hedging’: Reassessing Party Loyalty Among Black New York Voters, 1952-1961,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 40:2 (2019), 7-51.
- Media Coverage
- @MarshaEBarrett
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 8
- Expertise by Topic
- Government, Politics, Race
