
Nikhil Pal Singh
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History. Faculty Director NYU Prison Education Program
Education
- 1995 Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University
- 1987 A.B. in Social Studies, Harvard University
Nikhil Pal Singh is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University, and Founding Faculty Director of the NYU Prison Education Program. A historian of race, empire, and culture in the 20th-century United States, Singh is the author, most recently, of Race and America’s Long War (University of California Press, 2017). He is also the author of the award-winning book, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2004), and author and editor with Jack O’Dell of Climin’ Jacob’s Ladder; The Black Freedom Movement Writing of Jack O’Dell. A new book Reconstructing Democracy: Black Intellectuals in the American Century is forthcoming from University of California Press. Singh’s writing and historian interviews have appeared in a number of places including New York Magazine, TIME, the New Republic, and on NPRs Open Source and Code Switch.
Books
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Reconstructing Democracy: Black Intellectuals in the American CenturyUniversity of California Press, forthcoming 2023
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Race and America's Long WarUniversity of California Press, 2017
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University of California Press, 2010
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Harvard University Press, 2005
Contact Information
Nikhil Pal Singh
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History. Faculty Director NYU Prison Education Program nikhil.singh@nyu.edu 20 Cooper Square, 4th FloorRoom 436
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8539