My current research examines the evolution of faculty and student cultures at a traditionally white institution of higher learning in the American South during the era of the Civil Rights movement. I am particularly interested in how leaders of the institution used state and federal resources, as well as the power of their offices, to develop a surveillant culture that sought sequentially to sustain segregation and deny the impact of integration. Emboldened by the fact that the end to desegregation failed to result in the demise of civilization, white faculty and students, often in league with their African American peers, began after 1965 to demand that the institution embrace academic freedom, shared governance and student rights. Those efforts took another decade to accomplish. I'm also interested in examining how the movements to give voice to faculty and students shaped the institution in fact and in memory over the next thirty years.
My teaching interests are broad. In fact, I prefer to teach courses that span a long period. My particular teaching interest lies in the American south across time.
Bradley Bond
Associate Professor
bbond@niu.edu
Zulauf 706
U.S. South
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 9-10 a.m.
By appointment (online via Zoom)
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1993