Robert Woodrum
Assistant Professor History, Political Science- Education
B.A., History, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, 1987
M.A., History, Georgia State University, 1997
Ph.D., History, Georgia State University, 2003
- Specializations
Labor History
20th Century United States
African American History
Southern United States History
- Biography
- Publications
Book:
‘Everybody Was Black Down There’: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007).
Articles/Essays:
“Race, Unionism, and the Open Shop along the Waterfront in Mobile, Alabama,” in Organizing Against Labor: Controversies in the Histories of Employers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Forthcoming).
” ‘The Past Has Taught Us a Lesson’: The International Longshoremen’s Association and Black Workers in Mobile, Alabama, 1903-1913,” The Alabama Review, April 2012.
” ‘Wearing Their Own Tombstones on Their Backs’: Globalization and the Coalfields of Alabama and Colombia, 1970-2001,” in Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009).
” ‘This Is What the Union Done’ — One Example of Using Music to Make History Matter,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Spring 2006.
“The Rebirth of the UMWA and Racial Anxiety in Alabama, 1933-1942,” The Alabama Review, October 2005.
“Wildcats, Caravans, and Dynamite: Alabama Miners and the 1977-1978 Coal Strike,” in It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999).