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Martin Summers, Mentor
Ethnic Studies/History

Margarita Smith, McNair Scholar

Martin Summers, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Ethnic Studies Program, received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997 and joined the UO faculty in 2000. His scholarly interests focus on African-American history and gender history. His publications include Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930, (UNC Press, 2004), and "Diasporic Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transnational Production of Black Middle-Class Masculinity," Gender and History (2004. Current research focuses on "Race, Madness, and the State: A History of Patients of Color at St. Elizabeth’s Government Hospital for the Insane, 1855 to the Early 20th Century."