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Dr. Erik Gellman is Associate Professor of History. He researches and teaches about working-class and urban life, visual culture, and comparative social movements in modern American history. He’s the author of Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights (UNC Press, 2012) and The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America (IL Press, 2011, coauthor Jarod Roll). He’s co-directed NEH and Terra Foundation programs on the Black Chicago Renaissance. His latest book is Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay (University of Chicago Press, December 2020).

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