Jess Rigelhaupt
Associate Professor
American Studies, Oral History, Urban Politics, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Office: Monroe 231
Phone: 540-654-1480
Email: jmr@umw.edu
Jess Rigelhaupt received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005. He joins the faculty at the University of Mary Washington after serving as a postdoctoral research specialist in the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include American studies, twentieth century United States social and cultural history, oral history, urban politics, and comparative ethnic studies. He is writing a book on mid-twentieth century progressive social movements and politics in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005. American Culture.
- M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002. American Culture.
- B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997. American Studies.
Courses
AMST 201: Intro to American Studies
AMST 202: The Politics and Culture of the 1960s
AMST 303: The Long Civil Rights Movement
AMST 450: Prisons in America
FSEM 100G4: Race and Revolution
HIST 200C8: US Labor History
HIST 471C8: Oral History and James Farmer
HIST 471D3: Topics: Oral History
Publications
Centering the Left: The Popular Front and Civil Rights in the San Francisco Bay Area (ms. in progress)
“Overthrowing the Government? No. The Main Activity of Most American Communists was Agitating for Reforms to Extend Democratic Rights to Minorities, Build the Labor Movement, and Abolish Poverty.” In History in Dispute: The Red Scare after 1945, , ed. by Robbie Lieberman, 231-235. (Detroit: St. James, 2004).
