Peter Wallenstein, Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1973)

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:
•Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement:  White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses (University Press of Florida, 2008; paperback 2009).

•Cradle of America:  Four Centuries of Virginia History (University Press of Kansas, 2007).