Luther Adams - Free Man of Color

• African American Religious History
• Black Culture
• Cities – Urban Space
• Civil Rights
• Kentucky History
• Labor Studies
• Police Brutality
• Southern History
Luther Adams – Free Man of Color is both a student and teacher of Black history and culture, my work brings the interdisciplinary study of urban, southern, labor and religious history together to understand Black culture and life. I mentor and graduate students, share my work and expertise publicly at conferences, schools, churches, theaters, prisons & libraries, and with local & national media. I am Associate Professor of Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies at the University of Washington in Tacoma.
I am grateful for the support provided by fellowships at:
• Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
• New York Public Library
• Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University
• NEH Summer Institute on African American Civil Rights at Harvard University
• Woodford R. Porter, Sr. Scholarship
My research is on police brutality, African American migration and religion, urban history, and Black culture. My work began with Black history in Kentucky and expanded to encompass Black history and life broadly across space and time. I think, speak, and write about Black history and culture. I am author of Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970. I am writing NO JUSTICE NO PEACE, a history of African Americans’ struggles with and against police brutality.
Public Forum, “Taking Stock: Lessons Learned from Historical and Contemporary Policy Perspectives on Racialized and Violent Policing,” African Americans, Health, and Policing during the Age of the Corona Virus, Carnegie Mellon University, May 7, 2021.
Black History and Black Culture, Guest Speaker, Rising Sons Extended, Office of African American Male Achievement, Seattle Public Schools, April 26 & 27, 2021.
“Bringing Newberry Photos to Kentucky,” Kentucky Historical Society, Jan. 12, 2018.
“The Problem of Police Brutality and Racism in Perspective,” with Dr. Carolyn West, UWT, 2014.
“W.E.B. Du Bois’ One Charge,” UNC Press Blog, October 23, 2014.
• iTech Fellow, On-line teaching certification, UWT, Winter-Spring, 2021.
• Kentucky Historical Society research grant for Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, 2016.
• Nominated, UWT Distinguished Teaching Award, 2016.
• Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Research Fellowship University of Washington, 2015-2016.
• New York Public Library Short-Term Fellowship, Fall, 2011.
• Nominated, UW Graduate School Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, 2009.
• Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy, African American Urban Studies Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006-2007.
• Internationalizing the Curriculum, Office of Undergraduate Education, University of Washington, 2006.
• Institute for Teaching Excellence, University of Washington, 2004.
• NEH Summer Institute on African American Civil Rights, Harvard University, 2003.
• Fontaine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1994- 1999.
• Woodrow Wilson Program in Public Policy and International Affairs, Summer Program in Policy Skills, Princeton University, 1993.
• Woodford R. Porter, Sr. Scholarship, University of Louisville, 1990-1994.
Undergraduate 100-200 Level
• American History I 1607-1877
• American History II 1877-Present
• African American History 1619-1865
• African American History 1865-1945
• African American History 1945-Present
• Introduction to Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies
Undergraduate Upper 300 Level
• African American History
• The Making of America
Undergraduate 400 Level
• African American Culture and Consciousness
• African American Religious History
• Black Freedom Movements
• Black Labor in America
• The Black Metropolis
• U.S. History 1945 – Present
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