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Samuel K. Roberts
Associate Professor
Columbia University
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Biography
Education
Ph.D – Princeton University, 2001
M.A. – Princeton University, 1997
B.A. – University of Virginia, 1995
Current Departmental Service
Graduate Education Committee
Interests and Research
Samuel Roberts, associate professor, specializes in the history of post-emancipation African-American social movements, class formations, and urban political economy. His book, titled Infectious Fear: Politics and the Health Effects of Segregation in the Jim Crow Urban South is an exploration of the political economy of health and tuberculosis control from the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. He is currently researching the development of late nineteenth- and twentieth- century patterns of labor and West Indian migration in the
Republic
of
Panama. At
Columbia
he has faculty affiliations with the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy’s (ISERP) Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Programs (H&SS), where he is Coordinator of the Working Group in African-American History and the Health and Social Sciences (AAHHSS). He received his B.A. from the
University
of
Virginia
(1995) and his Ph.D. from
Princeton
(2001).
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