David R. Roediger
David R. Roediger teaches history and African American Studies at the University of Kansas.
Born in southern Illinois, he earned a B.S. in Education from Northern Illinois University and a doctorate in History from Northwestern in 1979.
He has taught labor and Southern history at several universities and worked as an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale.
His research focuses on U.S. labor movements, radicalism, and racial identities of white workers and immigrants.
Former chair of the Charles H. Kerr Company's editorial committee, he remains active in the surrealist movement, labor support, and anti-racist organizing.
