Peter Wallenstein, Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1973)
402 Major Williams Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-8376
pwallens@vt.edu

Areas of Specialization: U.S. South, Virginia, civil rights, higher education

Current Research:(1) Mr. And Mrs. Loving:  The Community, the Couple, the Case; (2) Race, Power, and Public Education in America:  From School Strike to School Closing in Prince Edward County, Virginia; (3) Virginia Union University and the Richmond Sit-Ins of February 1960; (4) Jim Crow and Higher Education: North Carolina, the South, and the Nation.

Recent Publications:
• Cradle of America:  Four Centuries of Virginia History.  Lawrence:  University Press of Kansas, 2007.
• Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement:  White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 2008; paperback 2009.  Edited collection of essays.
• “The Struggle to Learn:  Higher Education in Civil War Virginia.”  In Virginia at War, 1864, ed. William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr., 99–119.  Lexington:  University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
• “Did Homer Plessy Die a White Man?  Race and Southern History—The State of the Field.”  Georgia Historical Quarterly, 94:1 (Spring 2010):  62–96.
• “Loving v. Virginia.”  In Milestone Documents in African American History:  Exploring the Essential Primary Sources, ed. Paul Finkelman, 4:1478–90.  4 vols.; Dallas, TX:  Schlager Group, 2010.
• “Identity, Marriage, and Schools:  Life along the Color Line/s in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson.”  In The Culture of Jim Crow:  Rethinking the Segregated South, ed. Stephanie Cole and Natalie Ring.  College Station:  Texas A&M University Press, forthcoming 2011.
• “Brown v. Board of Education and Segregated Universities:  From Kluger to Klarman—Toward Creating a Literature on King Color, Federal Courts, and Undergraduate Admissions,” International Journal of Africana Studies (forthcoming 2011).