Professor Shane White
Professor of American History
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, 2006-2010
PhD (Sydney)
Room 844 Brennan Building
+61 2 9351 2858
I have been either a student or a teacher in the History Department here, continuously, since I was seventeen years of age, and as you can tell from the accompanying photograph, that was some time ago. I try to read broadly in American history, but my main research interests are in African American history and in the history of New York City.
Research areas
- African American History
Current projects
| Books |
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[with Graham White], The Sounds of Slavery (Boston: The Beacon Press, 2005).
Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002).
[with Graham White] Stylin': African-American Expressive Culture From Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998). Paperback edition 1999.
Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991). Paperback edition 1995.
| Supervision |
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- I supervise theses in American history, particularly American cultural history.
Recent PhD completions
Clare Corbould, "Making African Americans, 1919-1936." (2005)
Obelia Jane Modjeska, “Seeking Dad, Seeking Master: Patriarchal Crisis, Middle Class Masculinity and the Representation of the Father in American Cinema, 1970 to the Present.” (2004)
