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Robert Chase
Post-Doctoral Fellow
in African-American Studies
robert.t.chase@case.edu
Dr. Chase's fields of interest include US social, cultural, and political-cultural history; African-American history; punishment and crime; social movements; civil rights.
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Robert Chase is delighted to join Case Western Reserve University as this year’s post-doctorate fellow in African-American Studies in the Department of History. He specializes in African American history, working-class culture, racial politics, sexual violence and masculinity, social movements, and civil rights. Born in New York City and raised in Washington, DC, Robert received his MA in history from George Mason University and his PhD in history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the recipient of the University of Maryland’s Ann G. Wylie dissertation award and he comes to Case Western Reserve University after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Southern Methodist University’s Clements Center for the Study of Southwestern America. His forthcoming manuscript, Civil Rights on the Cell Block: Race, Reform, and Violence in Texas Prisons and the Nation, 1945-1990, explores the roots of twentieth century prison growth, inmate society and the relationship between keeper and kept, and the legal struggle between inmates and the state over race, prisoner rights, sexual violence, and questions of citizenship.
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