Office Hours:
Office Hours are held in Axinn 334:

Mondays 10:00 - 11:00 am

Fridays 2:00 - 3:00 pm

and by appointment

Jim Ralph
Professor of History; Dean for Faculty Research and Development; William Rehnquist Professor of American History and Culture
Old Chapel 106
Phone: 802.443.5908
Email: ralph@middlebury.edu
Years at Midd: since 1989
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Teaching Areas

American history, Civil Rights Movement, Social Movements, African-American history, Urban history, Ethnic history.

Research Interests

Post-War America, Race Relations in modern America, Civil Rights Movement, Modern Urban America.

Courses Taught

U.S. History: 1492-1861; U.S. History: 1861-1960; African-American History; Progressivism, War and Prosperity: America, 1890-1929; The Civil Rights Revolution; Readings in American History: Protest Movements; Writing and Research in American History; Readings in American History: American Ethnic History; Ethnic Chicago; America in Vietnam: the War Abroad, the War at Home; The Fifties; History of Urban America.

Books

Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement (Harvard U.P.)