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Faculty
Visiting Faculty
Louis Granados
Qunyu Tan
Emeriti Faculty
Bentley Duncan
Charles Gray
Harry Harootunian
Ping-ti Ho
Halil Inalcik
Barry Karl
Julius Kirshner
William McNeil
Peter Novick
Associated Faculty
Jane Dailey
Associate Professor of American History
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1995
The University of Chicago
Department of History
1126 E. 59th Street, Mailbox 93
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-2582 -- Office
(773) 702-7550 -- Fax
Email: dailey@uchicago.edu
Field Specialties
Modern United States social and political history, African American history, the American South, and legal history.
Biography
Jane Dailey is Associate Professor History and the College. Her first book, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), analyzed the conditions that facilitated and, ultimately, undid interracial democracy in the post-Civil War South. An edited collection, Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (Princeton University Press, 2000, with Glenda E. Gilmore and Bryant Simon), continued the theme of African American resistance to white domination from Reconstruction through the 1950s. A third book, The Age of Jim Crow: A Norton Documentary History (Norton, 2008), examines the creation and dissolution of legal segregation in America through primary sources. The recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Academy in Berlin and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Prof. Dailey is currently finishing a book on race, sex and the civil rights movement from emancipation to the present that will be published by Harcourt. She is also writing the second volume of The American Republic, a two-volume textbook on United States history for Bedford Books. A graduate of Yale and Princeton, Prof. Dailey taught at Rice University and Johns Hopkins before joining the University of Chicago in 2006.
Publications
Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-Emancipation Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (Princeton University Press, 2000. Co-edited collection with Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Bryant Simon)
Jim Crow America: A Norton Casebook in History (W. W. Norton & Co., 2008)
"The Civil Rights Movement in the South," Speaking Out With Many Voices: Documenting American Activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Heather Ann Thompson, ed. (Prentiss Hall, 2008)
"The Sexual Politics of Race in WWII America" in Kevin Kruse and Stephen Tuck, eds., Mobilizing the Movement (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008).
"Comment on the Study of Manners and Southern History" in Manners and Southern History (Ted Ownby, ed., Univ. of Miss. Press, 2007), 137-151.
"Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow: African Americans and World War II," The Berlin Journal, Fall 2005: 27-30.
"The Theology of Massive Resistance," in Clive Webb, ed., Massive Resistance (Oxford University Press, June 2005): 151-80.
"Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred After Brown," Journal of American History 91, No. 1 (June 2004): 119-44.
"Land, Labor, and Politics Across the Post-Emancipation South," Labor History 44, No. 4 (November 2003): 509-22.
"The Congress and White Supremacy, 1860s-1920s," in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The American Congress: The Building of Democracy (Houghton-Mifflin, 2004), 250-67.
"The Limits of Liberalism in the New South: The Politics of Race, Sex, and Patronage in Virginia," and Introduction, in Jumpin' Jim Crow, 3-6; 88-114.
"Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South: Manners and Massacres in Danville, Virginia," Journal of Southern History 63 (Aug. 1997), 53-90.
Review of James C. Cobb, "Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity," Southern Cultures (Spring 2007), 105-107.
Op-Ed Columns
"Obama's Omission," Chicago Tribune, July 30, 2008
Reviews: Chicago Tribune Sunday Books
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet, Feb. 22, 2004
Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name, May 30, 2004
Susan Dunn, Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism, Sept.12, 2004
Bryant Simon, Boardwalk of Dreams: The Fate of Urban America, September 19, 2004
Karl Fleming, Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir, July 3, 2005
Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Equality in Twentieth-Century America, Nov. 27, 2005
Karolyn Smardz Frost, I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) and Jacqueline L. Tobin, From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (New York: Doubleday, 2007), March 17, 2007
Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (New York, 2007), April 12, 2008