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Barbara Ballard
Associate Professor of History
email
212-774-4832

Degrees
Ph.D. Yale University
M.A. Yale University
M.A. City College — City University of New York
B.A. Hunter College, CUNY.


Dr. Ballard, Associate Professor of History, teaches a range of American and African American history and cultural studies courses, and specializes in nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of "Frederick Douglass and the Ideology of Resistance," Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South. Edited by Preston King and Walter Earl Fluker. Routledge (2007); "African American Protest at the Chicago World's Fair," Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities. C. James Trotman, editor. Indiana University Press (2002), and "A People without a Nation," Chicago History: Magazine of the Chicago History Society, 28, no.1 (Summer 1999). Currently, Dr. Ballard is working on a major study of little considers aspects Booker T. Washington's leadership and a study of abolitionist literature. She has given public lectures on topics ranging from American Slavery, Richard Wright, Herman Mellville and Frederick Douglass, Gordon Parks, and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.


2008-2009
Achievements in Scholarship and Service



College Service
History Program Coordinator.
Member: Academic Standards Committee.
Member: President’s Diversity Initiative Committee.







2008-2009 Achievements in Scholarships and Service