Roediger, David R(andall)
ROEDIGER, David R(andall)
ROEDIGER, David R(andall). American, b. 1952. Genres: History. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, worked on Frederick Douglass Papers, 1979-80; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Mellon assistant professor, 1980-85; University of Missouri-Columbia, assistant professor to associate professor, 1985-92, professor of history, 1992-94; University of Minnesota, professor, 1994-2000; University of Illinois, professor, 2000-. Member of editorial boards and boards of directors; participant in antiapartheid activities in Chicago and Missouri, 1983-. Publications: (ed. with Franklin Rosemont) Haymarket Scrapbook, 1986; (with P.S. Foner) Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day, 1989; The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, 1991; (ed.) Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred W. Thompson, 1993; Toward the Abolition of Whiteness: Collected Essays, 1994; Colored White, 2002. Contributor of articles and reviews to history journals and other magazines. Address: Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, U.S.A.