Larry Alfonso Greene Professor of History Address: 336 Fahy Hall
Phone: (973) 275-2768
E-mail: greenela@shu.edu
I specialize in the study of the Civil War, African American History, Great Depression and World War II, and the History of the South. I have taught courses in these areas over the course of the years.
My present research interests involve the future publication of books on Harlem and the relationship between African Americans and Germany. The later is the result of my research on the African American expatriate community and travelers in Europe.
Like many professors, I love to hear myself talk. Thus my penchant for lecturing. However, even more than hearing myself expound on history and the world, I love to hear my students talk and joy in their intellectual engagement of history.
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University, 1979
- M.A., Seton Hall University, 1970
- B.A., Montclair State University, 1968
Courses at Seton Hall
- HIST 1301 & 1302 American History I and II
- HIST 2375 & 2376 African American History I and II
- HIST 2353 Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 3212 World War II
- HIST 2180 Introduction to Historical Research
Awards, grants and fellowships
- Fulbright Lecturing and Research Award to Germany
- NEH Summer Institute on American Urban History, Columbia University
- New York University Humanities Seminars for Visiting Scholars (Mellon Foundation)
- Schomburg Center for Scholars in Residence Program
- NEH Summer Institute on Afro-American Religion, Princeton University
Representative Publications
“Harlem Riot of 1935,” Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (New York: Routledge, 2004).
“Harlem: Overview and History,” Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (New York: Routledge, 2004).
Co-author with Diana Linden, “Charles Alston’s Harlem Hospital Murals: Cultural Politics in Depression Era Harlem,” Prospects [Cambridge University Press journal] (Vol. 26, 2002).
“Chronology of Black America, in Alison Weld, ed., Art By African Americans in the Collection of the New Jersey State Museum (Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1998).
“A Gale in the Zeitgeist: A Bell Curve or A Bean Ball?,” Telos, 106 (Winter 1996)).
“Black Populism and the Quest for Racial Unity,” Telos, 103 (Spring 1995).
Co-authored with Lenworth Gunther, The New Jersey African American History
Curriculum Guide (Trenton: NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1996).
Co-edited with John B. Duff, Slavery: Its Origins and Legacy (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975).
