As an American Studies PhD, my work engages the fields of African-American History and Culture, Oral History, and Urban History. I also have an MFA in creative writing. This page offers a sampling of some of my recent scholarly work.
NEW BOOKS:
Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark
and…
The Darkest Parts of My Blackness
PODCAST APPEARANCE: Civics and Coffee
November 2024
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTOR:
Rise Up North,spring 2024
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLE:
“What Ordinary People Can Teach Us: Oral Histories of Employment Discrimination Against African Americans” Studies in Oral History, 2024
REVIEW:
African American Intellectual History Society’s “Black Perspectives,”January 2025
“Dear, dear jackass! Don’t you understand that the past is the present; that without what was, nothing is?’”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Katie Singer 