Nico Slate
Professor of History
- Baker Hall 240 E
- 412-268-1408
Bio
Nico Slate’s research and teaching focus on the history of social movements in the United States and India. He is the author of six books: (HarperCollins India and the University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024); (Temple University Press, 2023); (Harvard University Press, 2019); (University of Washington Press, 2019); (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and (Harvard University Press, 2012). He is also the editor of (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), and co-editor, with Professor Harald Fischer-Tiné, of (Leiden University Press, 2022) and, with Professor Rajeshwari Dutt, of (Routledge, 2023).
Dr. Slate is currently at work on two books. A Peculiar Lucidity: Surviving the 1918 Pandemic offers a collective biography of seven people who survived the 1918-19 influenza pandemic: an American writer, a British statesman, an Indian freedom fighter, a Norwegian painter, an American artist, a Bohemian writer, and a Canadian actress. Truth and Power: The Highlander Folk School and the Radical Civil Rights Movement provides a grassroots intellectual history of the struggle against American racism, a history grounded in some 100 hours of audio recordings of civil rights workshops conducted at an integrated educational institution in the hills of Tennessee.
Dr. Slate is the faculty director of LEAP, a program for high school students who are passionate about the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Born in Los Angeles and raised in California's Mojave Desert, he earned degrees in Earth Systems and the Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from Stanford University and in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University before completing his Ph.D. in History at Harvard University.
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Education
Ph.D.: Harvard University, 2009Publications
Books
- (HarperCollins India and the University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
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(Temple University Press, 2023)
- (Harvard University Press, 2019)
- (University of Washington Press, 2019)
- (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
- (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Edited Volumes
- (Routledge, 2023), coedited with Professor Rajeshwari Dutt
- (Leiden University Press, 2022), co-edited with with Professor Harald Fischer-Tiné
- , an edited volume (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Articles and Book Chapters
- Environmental History 29, no. 3 (July 2024): 474–499
- Peace & Change 48 (July 2023): 163-182
- The American Historical Review 127, no. 4 (December 2022): 1659-1686
- The Journal of American History 109, no. 3 (December 2022): 571-595
- The Journal of African American History 107, no. 4 (Fall 2022): 575-599
- Past & Present (2022),
- History of Education Quarterly 62, no. 2 (2022): 191-210
- History of Education 51, no. 1 (2022): 114-134
- Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 27, no. 1 (2022): 73-87
- Journal of Social History 55, no. 3 (2022): 744-768
- “Socialism and Civil Rights: The American Journeys of Rammanohar Lohia,” in , edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Nico Slate (Leiden University Press, 2022), 163-186
- Modern Intellectual History 18, no. 4 (December 2021): 1130–1154
- Global Food History 4, no. 2 (2018): 226-244
- “‘We the People of Color’: Colored Cosmopolitanism and the Borders of Race,” in Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Michael O’Brien, James T. Kloppenberg, and Joel Isaac, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2016), 57-75
- Modern Language Quarterly 76, no. 3 (September 2015): 305-331
- Journal of Civil and Human Rights 1 no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2015): 3-24
- Racial and Ethnic Studies 35 (2012): 1-19
- “The Borders of Black Power” and “The Dalit Panthers: Race, Caste, and Black Power in India,” in , edited by Nico Slate (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 1-12 and 127-46.
- The Journal of Historical Sociology 24, no. 1 (March 2011): 62-79
- “A Coloured Cosmopolitanism: Cedric Dover’s Reading of the Afro-Asian World,” in Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra, editors, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 213-35
- Contemporary South Asia 17, no. 1 (March 2009): 7-19, revised as “Becoming a Colored Woman: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the African American Freedom Struggle,” in Vinay Lal and Ellen DuBois, eds., (Zubaan Books, 2017), 375-400
Courses Taught
- Barack Obama and the History of Race in America
- India/America: Democracy, Diversity, Development
- Gandhi and King: Nonviolent Leadership in a Globalized World
- The Civil Rights Movement and the World
- Sustainable Social Change: History and Practice
- India Today: Economics, Technology, and People
- India in the World: A History of Globalization
- Innovation and Social Change
Department Member Since: 2009