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| + | |member_name = Keith Griffler<br/> | ||
| + | |title = Associate Professor and Chair<br/>Department of African American Studies | ||
| + | |image_link = [[Image:YOUR_IMAGE_FILENAME.jpg|center|200px|Keith Griffler]]<br/> | ||
| + | |description = Keith Griffler<br/> | ||
| + | |research_interests = African American history, Underground Railroad<br/> | ||
| + | |departmental_affiliation = [http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/ African American Studies]<br/> | ||
| + | |institutional_affiliation = [http://www.buffalo.edu University at Buffalo]<br/> | ||
| + | |office_location = 732 Clemens Hall<br/> | ||
| + | |email = [mailto:griffler@buffalo.edu griffler@buffalo.edu]<br/> | ||
| + | |URI = [http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/aas/faculty/keithgriffler/griffler.html Profile]<br/> | ||
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| + | |name = Keith Griffler | ||
| + | |narrative = Background<br/> | ||
| + | |narrative content = Dr. Keith Griffler is Associate Professor of African American History. His most recent book is Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley, which recenters the history of the Underground Railroad onto the African American frontline communities in the port cities and towns along the Ohio which gave the impetus for the formation and growth of the region’s underground freedom movement. His first book, What Price Alliance? Black Radicals Confront White Labor, 1918-1938, traces the formation of the historic African American-labor alliance that took shape during the Great Depression. He is currently working on a comparative social and economic history of African American and southern African workers. Dr. Griffler is also completing a documentary on the Underground Railroad, co-produced with Kevin Burke of the University of Cincinnati, supported by major grants from the Ohio Historical Society and the Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund. Their documentary short film on the topic, Wade in the Water, won four national awards, including first place from the National Broadcasting Society in 2002. Dr. Griffler has been involved in other public history projects on the Underground Railroad, including close collaboration with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which opened in August 2004. <br/> | ||
| + | |digital interests = Digital interests<br/> | ||
| + | |digital interests content = In addition to the DHIB supported project (“1968: I odezwą się z góry/Voices from the Mountaintop”) I’m working on with Marta Cieslak, my work is currently focused on the transnational history of race and class in the modern world economy. I’m finishing a book entitled The Common Bonds of the Black Atlantic: The Political Economy of Race and Class that resuscitates and builds on the thinking of an early to mid-twentieth century Black World school of class analysis in writing an alternative Black World history. Though a continuation of the themes I pursued in my first book, it is remote from the subject of my second book that was a spinoff of a documentary project on the Underground Railroad which I co-produced with Kevin Burke of the Electronic Media Department of the University of Cincinnati. Besides the opportunity to pursue the set of skills acquired in that endeavor, “1968” gives me the chance to advance my lifelong interest in Polish history and language dating from my days as an undergraduate study abroad student in Poland.<br/> | ||
“1968: I odezwą się z góry/Voices from the Mountaintop” is a multimedia bilingual project including research on the transnational history of the social and political ferment and the literature of 1968 in Poland and the US. | “1968: I odezwą się z góry/Voices from the Mountaintop” is a multimedia bilingual project including research on the transnational history of the social and political ferment and the literature of 1968 in Poland and the US. | ||
In summer 2008, with the financial support of DHIB, we conducted interviews with the participants of the 1968 student protests in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, we had an opportunity to spend two months in numerous Polish archives, including the National Polish Archive, the National Library Archive and the Archive of the KARTA Center - an independent non-governmental organization documenting and popularizing the recent history of Poland and Eastern Europe. Currently we are doing research examining the US component of the project that examines nationalism under two seemingly distinct political systems. | In summer 2008, with the financial support of DHIB, we conducted interviews with the participants of the 1968 student protests in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, we had an opportunity to spend two months in numerous Polish archives, including the National Polish Archive, the National Library Archive and the Archive of the KARTA Center - an independent non-governmental organization documenting and popularizing the recent history of Poland and Eastern Europe. Currently we are doing research examining the US component of the project that examines nationalism under two seemingly distinct political systems. | ||
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Revision as of 20:34, 4 December 2008
| Keith Griffler | |
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| Associate Professor and Chair Department of African American Studies | |
| Keith Griffler | |
| Research interests: | African American history, Underground Railroad |
| Institutional affiliation: | University at Buffalo |
| Departmental affiliation: | African American Studies |
| Office location: | 732 Clemens Hall |
| E-mail: | griffler@buffalo.edu |
| URI: | Profile |
| Membership status: | Charter member |
| Digital projects: | [URI NAME OF PROJECT] |
Keith Griffler
Background
Dr. Keith Griffler is Associate Professor of African American History. His most recent book is Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley, which recenters the history of the Underground Railroad onto the African American frontline communities in the port cities and towns along the Ohio which gave the impetus for the formation and growth of the region’s underground freedom movement. His first book, What Price Alliance? Black Radicals Confront White Labor, 1918-1938, traces the formation of the historic African American-labor alliance that took shape during the Great Depression. He is currently working on a comparative social and economic history of African American and southern African workers. Dr. Griffler is also completing a documentary on the Underground Railroad, co-produced with Kevin Burke of the University of Cincinnati, supported by major grants from the Ohio Historical Society and the Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund. Their documentary short film on the topic, Wade in the Water, won four national awards, including first place from the National Broadcasting Society in 2002. Dr. Griffler has been involved in other public history projects on the Underground Railroad, including close collaboration with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which opened in August 2004.
Digital interests
In addition to the DHIB supported project (“1968: I odezwą się z góry/Voices from the Mountaintop”) I’m working on with Marta Cieslak, my work is currently focused on the transnational history of race and class in the modern world economy. I’m finishing a book entitled The Common Bonds of the Black Atlantic: The Political Economy of Race and Class that resuscitates and builds on the thinking of an early to mid-twentieth century Black World school of class analysis in writing an alternative Black World history. Though a continuation of the themes I pursued in my first book, it is remote from the subject of my second book that was a spinoff of a documentary project on the Underground Railroad which I co-produced with Kevin Burke of the Electronic Media Department of the University of Cincinnati. Besides the opportunity to pursue the set of skills acquired in that endeavor, “1968” gives me the chance to advance my lifelong interest in Polish history and language dating from my days as an undergraduate study abroad student in Poland.
“1968: I odezwą się z góry/Voices from the Mountaintop” is a multimedia bilingual project including research on the transnational history of the social and political ferment and the literature of 1968 in Poland and the US.
In summer 2008, with the financial support of DHIB, we conducted interviews with the participants of the 1968 student protests in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, we had an opportunity to spend two months in numerous Polish archives, including the National Polish Archive, the National Library Archive and the Archive of the KARTA Center - an independent non-governmental organization documenting and popularizing the recent history of Poland and Eastern Europe. Currently we are doing research examining the US component of the project that examines nationalism under two seemingly distinct political systems.
