Craig Steven Wilder Craig Steven Wilder began his career as a community organizer in the SouthBronx. He provides curricular and professional development workshops with publicschool teachers in low-income areas of New York City. He also advises communityand social organizations in New York City. Wilder is a professor of American history at MassachusettsInstitute of Technology. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York.He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University focusing on urban history, underthe tutelage of Kenneth T. Jackson, as well as Barbara J. Fields, and EricFoner. His doctoral disseration was titled Race and the History of Brooklyn, NewYork which followed the history of Brooklyn from the arrival of the Dutch to thepresent day, focusing on the experiences of African-Americans. He has appearedon the History Channel’s F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed and on Ric Burns’ PBSseries, New York: A Documentary Film. Wilder was an assistant professor andChair of African-American Studies at Williams College from 1995 to 2002, when hejoined the faculty at Dartmouth. He remained at Dartmouth from 2002 to 2008 whenhe joined the faculty at MIT. He is the author of A Covenant with Color: Raceand Social Power in Brooklyn (2000) and In The Company of Black Men: The AfricanInfluence on African American Culture in New York City (2001). He was awardedThe University Medal of Excellence by Columbia University in 2004.He has advised and appeared in numerous historical documentaries, including thecelebrated Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon film, “The Central ParkFive”; Kelly Anderson’s highly praised exploration of gentrification, “MyBrooklyn”; the History Channel’s “F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed”; and Ric Burn’saward-winning PBS series, “New York: A Documentary History.” Professor Wilder has directed or advised exhibits at regional and nationalmuseums, including the Brooklyn Historical Society, the New-York HistoricalSociety, the Chicago History Museum, the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BLDG 92, the NewYork State Museum, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and the Weeksville HeritageCenter. He was one of the original historians for the Museum of Sex in New YorkCity, and he maintains an active public history program

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Craig Steven Wilder

Craig Steven Wilder Craig Steven Wilder began his career as a community organizer in the SouthBronx. He provides curricular and professional development workshops with publicschool teachers in low-income areas of New York City. He also advises communityand social organizations in New York City. Wilder is a professor of American history at MassachusettsInstitute of Technology. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York.He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University focusing on urban history, underthe tutelage of Kenneth T. Jackson, as well as Barbara J. Fields, and EricFoner. His doctoral disseration was titled Race and the History of Brooklyn, NewYork which followed the history of Brooklyn from the arrival of the Dutch to thepresent day, focusing on the experiences of African-Americans. He has appearedon the History Channel's F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed and on Ric Burns' PBSseries, New York: A Documentary Film. Wilder was an assistant professor andChair of African-American Studies at Williams College from 1995 to 2002, when hejoined the faculty at Dartmouth. He remained at Dartmouth from 2002 to 2008 whenhe joined the faculty at MIT. He is the author of A Covenant with Color: Raceand Social Power in Brooklyn (2000) and In The Company of Black Men: The AfricanInfluence on African American Culture in New York City (2001). He was awardedThe University Medal of Excellence by Columbia University in 2004.He has advised and appeared in numerous historical documentaries, including thecelebrated Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon film, "The Central ParkFive"; Kelly Anderson's highly praised exploration of gentrification, "MyBrooklyn"; the History Channel's "F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed"; and Ric Burn'saward-winning PBS series, "New York: A Documentary History." Professor Wilder has directed or advised exhibits at regional and nationalmuseums, including the Brooklyn Historical Society, the New-York HistoricalSociety, the Chicago History Museum, the Brooklyn Navy Yard's BLDG 92, the NewYork State Museum, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the Weeksville HeritageCenter. He was one of the original historians for the Museum of Sex in New YorkCity, and he maintains an active public history program