Martha Biondi

About

Martha Biondi is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on 20th Century African American History, with particular emphasis on social movements, politics, labor, gender, cities, and international affairs. Biondi is the author of several notable works, including 'The Black Revolution on Campus,' which describes the protests and reforms of Black students in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and explores the impact of these movements on higher education and academic knowledge. Her scholarship has received multiple awards, such as the 2012 National Book Award from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, the Wesley-Logan Prize, and the Myers Outstanding Book Award. She is also working on a forthcoming book titled 'We Are Internationalists,' which examines the transnational anti-apartheid and anti-colonial solidarity movement through the organizing work of Prexy Nesbitt. Biondi's research and publications contribute significantly to the understanding of African American history, social activism, and the development of Black Studies as an academic discipline.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Art
• Geography
• History
• Aesthetics

Selected publications

• Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America

  Journal of American History · 2013-06-01 · 4 citations

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  Journal Article Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America Get access Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America. Ed. by Kathleen G. Donohue. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. vi, 392 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $29.95.) Martha Biondi Martha Biondi Northwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois m-biondi@northwestern.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Is…

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• The Long and Devastating Reach of Federal Crime-Control Policies

  Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas · 2017-12-01 · 1 citations

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• Acknowledgments

  New York University Press eBooks · 2022

  This book had its origins in a chance encounter on a mid-Manhattan street in the late summer of 1993.I had just left the offices of the radio station WBAI when I bumped into David Du Bois, whom I had known as a result of my earlier research on the life of W. E. B. Du Bois

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• 8. ‘‘Brooklyn College Belongs to Us’’: Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020-11-20

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• The Rise of the Reparations Movement

  Duke University Press eBooks · 2020

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Frequent coauthors

• Moon Ho

  Columbia University

  25 shared

• Jim Gregory

  Northwest University

  25 shared

• Stephanie Smallwood

  25 shared

• Margaret Levi

  Stanford University

  25 shared

• Michael Honey

  University of Washington Tacoma

  25 shared

• Bruce Burgett

  Northwestern University

  25 shared

• Bill Fletcher

  New York University

  25 shared

• M. McCann

  25 shared

Education

• Ph.D., American Studies

  University of California, Berkeley

  1992

• M.A., American Studies

  University of California, Berkeley

  1988

• B.A., American Studies

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  1985

Awards & honors

• 2012 National Book Award from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institut…
• 2013 Wesley-Logan Prize from the AHA and the ASALH
• 2004 Myers Outstanding Book Award for To Stand and Fight: th…
• 2003 Thomas J.. Wilson Prize awarded to To Stand and Fight:…

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