Robin D. Muhammad Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Contact Information
Phone: (740) 597-3067
Fax: (740) 593-0671
Office: 328 Lindley Hall
E-mail:dearmon@ohio.edu

Education
Ph.D. in History from Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. in History and Social Policy from Carnegie Mellon University
B.A. in History and Spanish from the University of Calfornia at Davis

Research and Teaching
As a labor historian I study workers, their communities and their political institutions. My current research focuses on the history of industrial workers of African descent. Through institutional records and oral archives I am attempting to reconstruct the myriad relationships between African American people and their environment, both built and natural. For example, I am interested in the links between African American sanitation workers and other sanitation workers, from a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds, in Canada and Mexico. The history of labor is my focus but I also seek to assess the impact of sanitation industries on surrounding communities.

My book manuscript, Arsenal of Liberation: is a study of the African American experience in 20th -century Carlifornia. By focusing on changes in the shipbuilding industry in northern California and the growing African American community. I am able to trace the challenges and limitations of liberal coaltions, technlogical innovations and federal policy.

My courses focus on African American History, Lbaor History and Intellectual and Political History. I also developed a course on the history of the Black Press in Noth America which outlined the role of advocacy min Black journalism as well as race, class, and gender issues covered in newspaper accounts in Canada, the United Statess and Mexico.

Publications
Encycopedia of African American History. Facts on File. (2010, forthcoming)
Contributor of two entries: Double V Campaign; The March on Washington Movement.

“Linking Up the Golden Gate: Garveyism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1915-1925,” Journal of Black Studies (November 2008).

Proud to be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California by Peter La Chapelle (book review) Labor (Spring 2008).

Encyclopedia of the Homefront: World I and II published by ABC-CLIO (2006) Contributor of eight entries involving the African American experience.

Selected Grants Awards
Special 1804 Library Endowment - Ohio University, 2007.
Arts and Humanities Junior Faculty Endowment - Ohio University, 2007.
Goldman Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching 2004. Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Scholar, 1996-2000. Carnegie Mellon University.

Selected University Service
Chair, 40th Annivesary Committee (2008-2009).
Member, University Curriculum Council.
Member, Advisory Board for International Studies Program.
Member, Advisory Board for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies and Cultures Program.

Courses Taught
AAS 106 Introduction to African American Studies
AAS 101 African American History I
AAS 202 African American History II
AAS 368 African American Political Thought
AAS 225 History of the Black Worker
AAS 369 EThe Black Press in North America