Biography Samuel Roberts, associate professor, specializes in the history of post-emancipation African-American social movements, class formations, and urban political economy. His forthcoming 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).
