Dr. Nishani Frazier
Department Profile
Assistant Professor of History; Affiliate of the Black World Studies Program
- PhD 2008, Columbia University
- MA, Columbia University
- BA, Spelman College
- U.S. History
- African-American History
- The 1960s
- 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
- HST 400 Senior Capstone: Civil Rights in the 1960s
- AMS/HST 433/533 Oral Tradition: History and Practice
"A MacDonald's That Reflects the Soul of a People: Hough Area Development Corporation and Community Development in Cleveland," The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America, eds. Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig, University of Rochester Press, 2012
Editor, with Manning Marable and John McMillan, Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience, Columbia University Press, 2003
Heanon Wilkins Fellow, Miami University, 2007-08
Co-Principal Investigator, with Mary Jane Berman and Elizabeth Armstrong, National Endowment for the Humanities, "Interpreting America's Historic Places Planning Grant," 2009
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.