Steven A. Reich is Associate Professor of History.  He received his PhD in 1998 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and the B.A. from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.  Before coming to JMU, he was a Summerlee Research Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Dr. Reich teaches courses in the United States survey, American Labor
History, the American South, and Historical Methods. He is the coordinator of the History graduate program. He has written on southern labor history, racial violence, and black political activism in the Jim Crow South.  

Dr. Reich edited The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration (2006). He is the author most recently of “The Great Migration and the Literary Imagination” in The Journal of the Historical Society (March 2009) and "Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement:  Lessons from a Troubled Past" in  New Labor Forum (Fall 2009).

He is currently completing a book-length study of the social world of early twentieth-century southern lumber camps and sawmills and is under contract to write a history of African American workers for Rowman & Littlefield.
 

Steven A Reich
(Full-time faculty)
History Department
Clev 307
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 6063
e-mail: reichsa@jmu.edu