Clemmie L. Harris, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of History
Biography
Associate Professor Clemmie L. Harris earned his Ph.D. in American History, Africana Studies, Metropolitan Studies, and Public Affairs from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2013). He also has an M.A. in American History from both UPenn (2006) and SUNY Albany (2002) as well as a B.A. from SUNY Albany (2001). Clem has taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in African American Studies and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (2016-2017) and Wesleyan University (2015-2016).
Education
B.A. State University of New York at Albany
M.A. University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Research
He is the lead author in a book published by Temple University Press in July 2022 titled: If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth Century Philadelphia, edited by James Wolfinger, with two chapters titled: “Old Philadelphians, the Great Migration, and the Irony of Progressive Politics” and “The 1960s and Expanding Ideas of Black Rights.”
His current book manuscript for the University of Pennsylvania Press titled: Reconstructing Philadelphia: The Persistence of Racism and the African American Struggle for Political Power and Civil Rights in the Urban North is a historical assessment of American Democracy and Black electoral and protest activism in the urban north from the Abolition Era to the Reagan Revolution during the late 20th century.
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