Priscilla Dowden-White
Dr. Priscilla A. Dowden-White, PhD. is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Missouri where she teaches a variety of courses on African
American history, United States history since 1865, and the history of
St. Louis.
A
native St. Louisan, Dowden-White was educated in the St. Louis Public
schools.
She holds a B.A. in History from the University of Missouri – St. Louis,
a M.P.S. in Africana Studies from Cornell University in Ithaca, New
York, and a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University – Bloomington.
Prof. Dowden-White has published an article, "Over This Point We Are
Determined to Fight: The Urban League of St. Louis in Historical
Perspective, Gateway Heritage (Spring 1993). She currently
has two forthcoming publications in press, including a book chapter, “To
See Past the Differences to the Fundamentals: Racial Cooperation Within
the League of Women Voters of St. Louis, 1920 – 1946,” in Women
Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change, Angela Boswell
and Judith Anthony, eds. (University of Missouri, in press) and articles
on the ‘National Urban League’ and ‘Migration to St. Louis’ in the Encyclopedia of Great Black Migration, Steven Reich, ed. (Greenwood
Press, forthcoming 2005). Her first book, Urban Citizens:
African Americans and Social Welfare Activism in Jim Crow St. Louis, is forthcoming from the University of Missouri Press is scheduled
for publication in early fall of 2006.
Dr. Dowden-White is a consultant with St. Louis University’s School of
Public Health, where she is an Early Career Scientists for the project,
Minority Pre-doctoral Education to Reduce Racial Disparities. She
has been a featured scholar in several historical documentaries,
including: “Sing It, Tell It”, a documentary exploring the
African-American musical heritage of Missouri, created by Public
Interest Films of Berkeley, California; “Decades”, a series on the
history of St. Louis since the 1904 Worlds Fair, 1997; and most
recently, “Made in the U.S.A.: East St. Louis”, 2003.
Areas of
Research
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