Dr. Nishani Frazier
Associate Professor of History
Affiliate of Global and Intercultural Studies (Black World Studies Program)
266 Upham Hall
513-529-0844
513-529-0844
Office hours: T R 4:15-6:00, and by appointment
Education
- PhD 2008, Columbia University
- MA, Columbia University
- BA, Spelman College
Teaching and Research Interests
- U.S. History
- African-American History
- The 1960s and 1970s
- Public history
- Black internationalism
- Women and feminist history
- Culinary history
Courses Recently Taught
- HST 112 Survey of U.S. History
- BWS/HST 221 African-American History
- HST 367 United States in the 1960s
- HST 400 Senior Capstone: Feminist Thought
- HST 400 Senior Capstone: Civil Rights in the 1960s
- AMS/HST 433/533 Oral Tradition: History and Practice
Selected Publications
- Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism, University of Arkansas Press, 2017
- "A McDonald's That Reflects the Soul of a People: Hough Area Development Corporation and Community Development in Cleveland," The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America, eds. Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig, University of Rochester Press, 2012
- Editor, with Manning Marable and John McMillan, Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience, Columbia University Press, 2003
Selected Grants and Awards
- Heanon Wilkins Fellow, Miami University, 2007-08
- Co-Principal Investigator, with Mary Jane Berman and Elizabeth Armstrong, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Interpreting America's Historic Places Planning Grant," 2009
- Miami University Altman Faculty Scholar, 2017-18