Karen J. Ferguson

Karen J. Ferguson, Associate Professor, Program in Urban Studies & Department of History, Simon Fraser University. CV

Publications

• “Organizing the Ghetto: CORE, the Ford Foundation, and American Pluralism, 1967-1969,” Journal of Urban History, forthcoming November 2007.
• “Supporting Global Sustainability by Rethinking the City,” Journal of Urban Technology, 14, no. 2 (2007): 3-13. (With Anthony Perl, Meg Holden, and Mark Roseland).
• Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
• "The Politics of Exclusion: Wartime Industrialization, Civil Rights Mobilization, and Black Politics in Atlanta, Georgia, 1942-1946,” The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s, ed. Philip Scranton (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001), 43-80.
• "Caught in 'No Man's Land': The Negro Cooperative Demonstration Service and the Ideology of Booker T. Washington, 1900-1918," Agricultural History 72, no. 2 (Winter 1998): 33-54.

Current and Recent Scholarly Projects

• Book Manuscript: “The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and Post-Civil Rights Racial Liberalism in New York City, 1965-1975”
• Article Project: “The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the African-American Freedom Struggle, and National Identity”

Awards and Fellowships

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Aid to Workshops and Conferences in Canada Grant, 2005, $20,000
• Simon Fraser University Vice-President Academic Conference Grant, 2005, $1,500
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, 2002-2005, $52,150

Related Talks

• “Domesticating Development: The Ford Foundation and Establishment Multiculturalism, 1965-1975.” Paper delivered at the American Studies Association Conference, October 2006.