Fellow in Focus: Professor Van Gosse

Recorded November 15th, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event
featuring Visiting Research Fellow Prof Van Gosse (Franklin &
Marshall College) and Prof Daniel Geary (Mark Pigott Associate
Professor in American History, School of Histories and Humanities
TCD). Professor Van Gosse is Professor of History at Franklin &
Marshall College in Pennsylvania. His teaching and scholarship
focus on the African American struggle for citizenship, and
politics and culture in the Global Cold War. Recent publications
include The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From
the Revolution to the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2021); the journal edition “Irish and World
Histories” (with Peter Hession and Adrian Beatty), Radical History
Review, (Spring 2022); and Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black
Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century (edited with David
Waldstreicher). His research project as a Visiting Research Fellow
at Trinity Long Room Hub is titled "The Black and Green in US
Politics, 1877-1965." Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/