Victoria W. Wolcott
PhD
Interests
African American History; Women's History; Social Movement History
Global Gender and Sexuality Studies offers an intersectional approach to the most vital questions of our time..
Education
- PhD, University of Michigan, 1995
Selected Awards
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award, 2025; National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016; Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
Selected Publications
- Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present (2024)
- Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement (2022)
- Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America (2012)
- Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit (2001)
Professional Affiliations
- Urban History Association
- Organization of American Historians
- American Historical Society
Ongoing Projects
- The Embodied Resistance of Eroseanna Robinson: Athleticism and Activism in the Cold War Era, monograph in progress