Cally L. Waite | Mini Moments With Big Thinkers

Cally L. Waite is Associate Professor of History and Education in Teachers College's Department of Arts & Humanities, where she coordinates the History and Education Program. Waite is an authority on the transformation of higher education in the late 19th century and has written extensively about the history of African Americans in U.S. higher education. In her book Permission to Remain Among Us: Education for Blacks in Oberlin, Ohio, 1880-1914, Waite details the history of a community that demonstrated a rare commitment to the education of blacks during the antebellum period, only  to turn toward segregation as Reconstruction drew to a close -- a progression, she argues, that prefigured events nationwide.  

Waite also serves as program director of the SSRC-Mellon Mays Fellowship Program -- part of the Social Science Research Council, an independent, international nonprofit that nurtures new generations of social scientists, fosters innovative research, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues. 

Waite's current book project, The Journey Thus Far: Black Southern Scholars and Northern Institutions, 1896-1954 (with Margaret Smith Crocco, formerly of TC's Social Studies Education Program), considers the experiences and challenges of southern black scholars who earned their doctoral degrees at northern research universities during legalized segregation in the United States.

To learn more about Cally Waite, read:

• Winning the Social War Through Education  (www.tc.edu)
• The Challenge of Teaching Brown (by Cally Waite)
• The Segregation of Black Students at Oberlin College after Reconstruction (by Cally Waite)

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