Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis
Occupation	Professor of Political Science
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University, University of Michigan
Genre	non-fiction
Notable awards	NAACP Image Award, Peabody Award
Parents	Athan Theoharis (father)[1]
Relatives	Liz Theoharis (sister)[2]

Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.^[3]

Early life

Jeanne Theoharis was born to activist Nancy Artinian and professor Athan Theoharis. She was raised in Fox Point, Wisconsin a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin near the campus of Marquette University where her father taught. She has two siblings Liz Theoharis co-chair of the  Poor People's Campaign, and George Theoharis a professor of education, at Syracuse University.^[4]

Career

Jeanne Theoharis graduated from Harvard College in 1991 with dual concentrations in  Afro-American, and  Women's Studies.^[5] She then went on to pursue a PhD, at the University of Michigan in American Culture.^[6][7] Theoharis is  Distinguished Professor of  Political Science at Brooklyn College at the  CUNY. In her work as a political science professor she specializes in contemporary politics of race and gender, social policy, urban studies and 20th century African American history.^[8] Theoharis is also the author of numerous books and articles on the Black freedom struggle, including the NAACP Image award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and A More Beautiful and Terrible History, which won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Prize in Nonfiction.  Theoharis' book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks was adapted into an award-winning  documentary directed by Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen and executive produced by Soledad O'Brien for NBC-Peacock, where she served as a consulting producer.  The documentary won a Peabody Award and a Television Academy Honor Award.

In 2013, Theoharis co-created, a roundtable discussion program entitled Conversations in Black Freedom Studies at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with  Sarah Lawrence professor Komozi Woodard, and Lehman College professor Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine. The series features a roundtable of scholars and writers on the first Thursday of each month speaking on a topic in Black history, usually centered around a new book(s) in the field.^[9]

Theoharis has also worked as a faculty coleader in the Narrating Change, Changing Narratives research group of the 2014-2016 Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.^[10]

Works

Essays

• Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "MLK Would never shut down a freeway and 6 other myths about the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter", The Root, July 15.
• Theoharis, Jeanne, Burgin, Say, 2015. "Rosa Parks wasn't Meek, Passive or Naive--and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn't Learn in School", The Nation, December 1.
• Marchevsky, Alejandra, and Jeanne Theoharis, 2006. Not working: Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform. NYU Press.
• Marchevsky, Alejandra, Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform", The Nation, March 1.
• Coauthored: "Charlottesville belies racism’s deep roots in the North".^[11]
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Beacon Press. 29 January 2013. ISBN 978-0-8070-5048-4.^[12]

Books

• Theoharis, J. (2013). The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Beacon Press.
• Noel S. Anderson; Jeanne Theoharis; Gaston Alonso; Celina Su (1 May 2009). Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education. NYU Press. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-8147-8320-7.
• Theoharis, J. (2018). A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7587-6. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
• Brian Purnell; Jeanne Theoharis; with Komozi Woodard (2019). The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479820337.

Editor

• Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 January 2005). Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8285-9.
• Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard, eds. (1 November 2009). Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3230-4.
• Jeanne F. Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, eds. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 9780312294687

Awards and honors

• 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks^[13]

• 2014  NAACP Image Award, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks^[14][15]

• 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Award for Nonfiction, A More Beautiful and Terrible History; The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History^[16]

• 2022  Peabody Award, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (documentary)^[17]

• 2023:  Television Academy Honors, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (documentary)^[18]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jeanne Theoharis.

• Jeanne Theoharis on the Melissa Harris Perry show.
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Jeanne Theoharis on Starring Mrs. Rosa Parks: Film Excerpts and Behind the Scenes Commentary, from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online series.

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