Nishani Frazier

Contact

• frazien@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 281B Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-0844
• Office hours: T R 11-12:30

Title

• Assistant Professor of History

Education

• PhD 2008, Columbia University
• MA, Columbia University
• BA, Spelman College

Teaching and Research Interests

• U.S. History
• African-American History
• The 1960s

Recently taught courses

• HST 112 Survey of U.S. History
• BWS/HST 221 African-American History
• HST 367 United States in the 1960s
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Feminist Thought
• AMS/HST 433/533 Oral Tradition: History and Practice

Selected Publications

• Editor, with Manning Marable and John McMillan, Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience, Columbia University Press, 2003

Selected Grants and Awards

• Heanon Wilkins Fellow, Miami University, 2007-08

Work in Progress

Dr. Frazier’s current book project is Haramabee Nation: Cleveland, CORE and Rise of Black Power which examines the philosophical evolution of the Cleveland chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality toward Black Power and the chapter’s influence in perpetuating national CORE’s Black Power policy.