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 the 1998/1999 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 has written on southern labor history, racial violence, and black political activism in the Jim
Crow South.  He is the editor of  The Encyclopedia of the Great Black
Migration, 3 volumes (2006) and the author of "Soldiers of Democracy:
Black Texans and the Fight for Citizenship, 1917-1921," which appeared in the Journal of American History in 1996 and won the Organization of American Historians' Louis M. Pelzer Memorial Award.  He is currently completing a book-length study of the social world of early twentieth-century southern lumber camps and sawmills.
Dr. Reich is the coordinator of the History graduate program.
 

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