Matthew Guterl: Faculty
Director, American Studies Program
Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History
Adjunct Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, African Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Office: Ballantine Hall 522
Phone: (812) 855-7525
E-mail: mguterl 
indiana.edu
Education
PhD, Rutgers University, 1999
BA at Richard Stockton College, 1993
Research Interests
Histories of race, nation, slavery, emancipation, and empire
Personal Statement
I am a historian of race and race-relations in the United States, the Americas, and the world. My first book - featuring biographical portraits of Jean Toomer, Madison Grant, Daniel Cohalan, and W.E.B. Du Bois - explored the changing systems of racial classification in New York City during the early 20th century. My second book considers the Southern master class in exile and in diaspora, and challenges the power of the nation-state to frame the histories of racial division. I am currently at work on two separate book projects: a biography of Josephine Baker, focusing on her adopted family, and a history of the visual culture of race - that is, the way we have seen race on the body.
Courses Recently Taught
- AMST-A100 What is America?
- AAAD-A154 History of Race in the Americas
- AAAD-A354 Transnational Americas
- AAAD-A503 Afro-Guyana
Recent Publications:
American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).
Race, Nation, and Empire in American History, co-edited with James T. Campbell and Robert Lee (UNC, 2007).
'"I Went to the West Indies': Race, Place, and the Antebellum South," American Literary History 18.3 (Fall 2006): 446-467.
"Atlantic & Pacific Crossings: Race, Empire, and "the Labor Problem" in the Late Nineteenth Century," co-authored with Christine Skwiot, Radical History Review 91 (Winter 2005): 40-61.
"After Slavery: Asian Labor, Immigration, and Emancipation in the United States and Cuba, 1840-1880," Journal of World History 14.2 (June 2003): 209-241.
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Harvard University Press, 2001).
"The New Race-Consciousness: Race, Nation, and Empire in American Culture, 1910-1930," Journal of World History 10.2 (September 1999): 307-352.
Awards and Honors
- Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Center, Rice University, Spring 2010.
- Best Book of 2001 on the Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity, American Political Science Association.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University, 2001-2003.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2001.
- Associate Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance Pogram, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, 2001.
