Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2001
20th-Century U.S. History;
Labor, Urban, and Political History
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furesloc@stolaf.edu
I teach the U.S. history survey and have offered first-year seminars in grass-roots politics, ethnicity and immigration, and recent American history. I also have taught in the American Racial and Multicultural Studies program at St. Olaf. Before going to graduate school to study history, I worked for a decade as a community organizer in Minnesota and California.
My first book project (City Liberalism: The Politics of Class and Race in Cold War America), which I am revising for publication, explores how working-class politics and culture shaped the mid-20th Century city and postwar urban policy. My next project (Losing Hope?: Workers and Cynicism in Metropolitan America), also a study of working-class political culture, will focus on the problem of public cynicism and political disengagement in post-World War II cities and suburbs.
I completed my Ph.D. in History at the University of Iowa in 2001. Earlier I received an M.A. in History from San Francisco State University, an M.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, and a B.A. from St. Olaf (History major). My wife (the Chaplain at Carleton College) and I have two children.
Eric Fure-Slocum
