Walter A. Jackson

Department of History                                                        1928 Bearkling Place

North Carolina State University                                          Chapel Hill, NC 27517

Raleigh, NC 27695-8108                                                   919-942-9350

919-513-2213

waljackson@aol.com                                                       

EDUCATION

              Harvard Unviersity                        Ph. D. 1983

              Cambridge, MA                           A. M. 1973

              Duke University                            A. B. magna cum laude, 1972

              Durham, NC

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

   American Intellectual History, African-American History, Twentieth-

   Century U.S. History, Southern U.S. History

PUBLICATIONS

   Book:   Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial

Liberalism, 1938-1987 (University of North Carolina Press, 1990)

Articles:

 
“Gunnar Myrdal’s Critique of American Racial Inequality,” in Orjan Appelqvist and Birger Viklund,
eds. Gunnar Myrdal at 100 Years (Stockholm: Institute for Working Life, 2005).

 
“’Humanity’s Elemental Tragedy’: Gunnar Myrdal and the Writing of

An American Dilemma in the Summer of 1941,” in Mark Alleyne, ed.

Ralph J. Bunche: Scholar, Activist and Bureaucrat (UCLA: Bunche Center,

2004).

  
“Alva Myrdals kritik av amerikansk politik och det amerikanska samhallet under
New-Deal-eran,” Arbetarhistoria, Vol. 27, No. 106-107 (2003), 62-73.

  
“Gunnar Myrdal: America’s Swedish Tocqueville,” Swedish American Historical Quarterly (Fall, 1999)

 
“Gunnar Myrdal, Social Engineering, and American Racial Liberalism,” in Pauli T. Kettunen and Hanna Eskola, eds. Models, Modernity, and the Myrdals (Helsinki: Renvall Institute Publications, 1997)

 
“White Liberal Intellectuals, Civil Rights, and Gradualism, 1954-1960,” in A. J. Badger and Brian Ward, eds. The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 96-114

 
“Between Socialism and Nationalism: The Young E. Franklin Frazier,” Reconstruction, Vol. I, No. 3, 1991, pp. 124-34

 
“The ‘American Creed’ from a Swedish Perspective: The Wartime Context of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma: in Jo Anne Brown and David van Keuran, eds. The Estate of Social Knowledge (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)

 
“Melville Herskovits and the Search for Afro-American Culture,” History of Anthropology, Vol. IV (1986), pp. 73-103

 
“The Making of Social Science Classic: Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma,” Perspectives in American History, N.S., Vol. II (1985), pp. 221-267

Reviews:

 
Review of Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation by John P. Jackson, Isis (December, 2002), pp. 760-761 

 
Review of Rethinking the South: Essays in Intellectual History by Michael O’Brien, American Studies (Fall 1990) 

 
Review of Profiles in Social Research by Morton Hunt, Journal of the History of The Behavioral Sciences (July, 1987)

 
Review of Ethnicity, Pluralism, and Race: Race Relations Theory in America Before Myrdal by R. Fred Wacker, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. XXI, No. 3 (July, 1985)

 
Review of In Search of the Silent South by Morton Sosna, Southern Exposure, Vol. VI, No. 1 (Spring, 1978)

Conference Papers:

 
“From Sweden to America:  Gunnar Myrdal’s Critique of Racial Inequality in the United States,”  Fulbright Inaugural Lecture, Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University, April 23, 2008.

 
“Alva Myrdal’s Roots in the Swedish Working Class,” Conference paper on Alva Myrdal, Mälerdalens University, March 19, 2008.

 
“Gunnar Myrdal and An American Dilemma” Seminar, History of Ideas Department, Umeå University, March 14, 2008.

 
“Gunnar and Alva Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898-1945,” Lecture, The English Society, Uppsala University, Nov. 14, 2007.

 
“Race and Gender in the Making of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma,”

“Social Sciences Study Group, Gamla Torg, Uppsala University, October 4, 2007.

 
“Faust and the Negro Problem:  Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma,” Session on “Social Science and the South,” Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, November 4, 2005

 
“Alva Myrdal’s Critique of American Politics and Society in the New Deal Era,” Conference on Alva Myrdal’s Questions to Our Time, Uppsala University, Sweden, March 8, 2002

 
“African American Intellectuals on the Eve of the Civil Rights Movement,” African American Studies Program, University of Florida, February 26, 2001

 
“Intoxicating Honesty’: Gunnar Myrdal, Alva Myrdal, and the Writing of An American Dilemma,” Collegium on Afircan American Research International Conference, “Crossroutes: The Meanings of Race for the Twenty-First Century,” Cagliari, Italy, March 23, 2001

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1991 - Associate Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State

University

1983-1991- Assistant Professor NCSU:

Lecture courses on: the United States, 1877 to Present
Discussion Courses on: American Intellectual Thought in the 20th Century,
African-American Intellectual History, Southern Intellectual History, The
Civil Rights Movement, Historical Methods.

- Mellon Faculty Fellow, Stanford University

Spring 1985- Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of History, Duke University

-Instructor in History and Literature, Harvard University

American Ethnic Groups, the 1930’s in America, Survey of

U.S. History

-Teaching Fellow, Dept of History and Committee on Degrees in
History and Literature, Harvard University

AWARDS

  
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Cultural Diversity and Gustavus Myers Human
Rights Award for Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience. The book also was
nominated for the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and National Book Awards.

 
Outstanding Professor Award, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program,

                            North Carolina State University, 2000.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

 
Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Swedish Institute for North American Studies,

Department of English, Uppsala University, 2007-08

 
Virginia Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Fall 2002

 
Virginia Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Fall 1993

 
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Member 1992-93

 
Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University, 1989-90

 
Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University, 1985-87
 
Summer Institute on the History of Social Scientific Inquiry, Center for Advanced

Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Summer 1986 

 
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1985

 
W. E. B. DuBois Institute Fellowship, Harvard University, 1976-77

REFERENCES

 
Professor David Blight, Department of History, Yale University
 
Professor Richard H. King, American Studies Department, University of Nottingham, England