Heather Ann Thompson , Ph.D.
820 Gladfelter Hall
(215) 204-2773
hathomps@temple.edu

Research :

• Post-1945 African American history, Justice/Crime and Punishment History, Urban History, Labor History, and the history of radical movements in the 1960s and 1970s.

Recent Publications:

Books:

• Speaking Out: Protest and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s Edited Collection. (Prentice Hall, 2009)
  
  
• Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City (Cornell University Press: February 2002)

Chapters:

• “Blinded by the Barbaric South: The Ironic History of Penal Reform in Modern America,” in Crespino and Lassiter, eds. The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford, 2009)
  
  
• “All Across the Nation: Urban Black Activism, North and South, 1965-1975,” in Kusmer and Trotter, eds. African American Urban History and Race Relations after World War Two (University of Chicago, 2009)

Review Essays/Articles:

• "Telling it Like it Really Was: Women's Movement Activism and Movement Making in Postwar America." Reviews in American History. (March, 2006)
  
  
• "Making a Second Urban History." Essay collection commemorating the publication of Arnold Hirsch's Making a Second Ghetto, in the Journal of Urban History (May 2003)

Recent Awards:

• The Soros Justice Fellowship. The Open Society Institute. 2006-2007
  
  
• The Franklin Research Grant, The American Philosophical Association. 2005
  
  
• The Hackman Research Residency Grant, The New York State Archives. 2004
  
  
• Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, American Historical Association. 2004
  
  
• The Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Archive Center Research Grant. 2004

Current Projects:
Heather Thompson is currently working on a book about the Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971 to be published by Pantheon Books. She is also completing three new articles tentatively titled: “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline and Transformation in Postwar American History,” “From Attica to Kent State to Wounded Knee: Rethinking the Rise of the Right in the Wake of the Tumultuous Sixties,” “Rethinking PrisonConditionsand Prisoner Abusein Modern America: Toward a Labor History of Inmates and Guards,” and “ and has recently a submitted an article for publication entitled, “Black Activism Behind Bars: Toward a Rewriting of the American Civil Rights Movement.”