Fellow in Focus: Professor Van Gosse

Recorded November 15th, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Prof Van Gosse (Franklin & Marshall College) and Prof Daniel Geary (Mark Pigott Associate Professor in American History, School of Histories and Humanities TCD). Professor Van Gosse is Professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. His teaching and scholarship focus on the African American struggle for citizenship, and politics and culture in the Global Cold War. Recent publications include The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021); the journal edition “Irish and World Histories” (with Peter Hession and Adrian Beatty), Radical History Review, (Spring 2022); and Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century (edited with David Waldstreicher). His research project as a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub is titled "The Black and Green in US Politics, 1877-1965." Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/