Faculty Affiliate James N. Gregory, Professor of History, is the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair of Labor Studies. His research and teaching center on four aspects of 20th century United States history: (1) labor history, particularly the history of American radicalism; (2) regionalism, both the West and the South; (3) race and civil rights history; (4) migration, especially inside the United States. In addition, he is active in the field of public history, directing a set of online public history projects focused on the labor and civil rights history of the Pacific Northwest.

Major Research Projects:

• Red Seattle: Radical Generations from the Knights of Labor to the WTO.
• Upton Sinclair, the EPIC Movement, and the Twilight of American Socialism.
• Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects (a collection of website projects directed by James Gregory and sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities).
  http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/pnwlabor/

Sample Publications:

• The Southern Diaspora: How The Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America  (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
• "The Second Great Migration: An Historical Overview,” African American Urban History: The Dynamics of Race, Class and Gender since World War II, eds. Joe W. Trotter Jr. and Kenneth L. Kusmer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)  

Contact Information:

James N. Gregory
Email: gregoryj@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://depts.washington.edu/history/directory/index.php?facultyname=G-40
James N. Gregory's CV: See http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/