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Integrating Historically Black Colleges and Universities into the History of Higher Education

Cally Waite is Director of the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program at the Social Science Research Council, and Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Program in History and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her distinguished list of publications includes numerous articles on race and the history of the American academy, as well as the book Permission to Remain Among Us, a study of education for black students at Oberlin College at the end of the nineteenth century. Her current book project, The Journey Thus Far: Black Southern Scholars and Northern Institutions, 1896-1954 (with Margaret Smith Crocco), considers the experiences and challenges of southern black scholars who earned their doctoral degrees at northern research universities during legalized segregation in the United States.