Faculty
Priscilla A. Dowden-White, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Priscilla A. Dowden-White is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri where she teaches a variety of courses on African American history, United States history since 1865, and the history of St. Louis. She holds a B.A. in History for the University of Missouri - St. Louis, a M.P.S. in African Studies from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University - Bloomington. Her scholarly interests include social welfare and civic activism among African Americans during the interwar period of WWI and WWII. Prof. Dowden-White has been a featured scholar in several historical documentaries, including: "Sing It, Tell It", a documentary exploring the African-American musical heritage of Missouri, created by Public Interest Films of Berkeley, California; "Decades", a series on the history of St. Louis since the 1904 Worlds Fair, 1997; and most recently, "Made in the U.S.A.: East St. Louis," 2003. In the Fall Semester 2007, Prof. Dowden-White served as Co-ordinator for the Missouri Agrica Program and Faculty-in-Residence in the History Department at the University of Ghana-Legon where she taught "The Black Diaspora". Her recent publications include "To See Past the Differences to the Fundamentals; Racial Cooperation Within the League of Women Voters of St. Louis, 1920-1946," in Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (University of Missouri Press, 2006) and entries on St. Louis and on the National Urban Leadue Movement in the Encylopedia of Great Black Migration (Greenwood Press, 2006). Her first book, Groping Toward Democracy in a Jim Crow City: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis is forthcoming from the University of Missouri Press.
To contact Dr. Dowden-White please use the following email padhist@umsl.edu