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Matthew Pratt Guterl Matthew Pratt Guterl is Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University . Prior to his arrival at Brown University , Guterl was the James Rudy Professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University and chair of the department of American Studies . He is the author of four books and the co-author of another , and has written for The Guardian , The New Republic , The Chronicle of Higher Education , and Inside Higher Education . Guterl appeared in the documentary Race : the Power of an Illusion . Background . Guterl graduated from Richard Stockton College in 1993 with a B.A . in Historical Studies , and in 1999 from Rutgers University with a Ph.D . in History . He has written extensively about growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s as a member of a large , multiracial , adoptive family . Prior to working at Indiana University , Guterl was an Assistant Professor of Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University . Writings . Describing himself as an historian of race and nation , and a scholar of African American , American , and World histories , Guterls work has shifted over time across subfields and specializations : his first book was on the Progressive Era North , while his second book was on the Civil War Era South , and his more recent work is focused on the post-World War II era . His work is also transnational in scope and topic , and he often draws on archives outside of the United States . Guterl is the author of several books , each taking up the common histories of race and nation and class . His first , The Color of Race in America , 1900-1940 , was published in 2001 , and won a Best Book award from the American Political Science Association . It was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times and the Economist , among other venues . That book is a narrative of the shifting racial classifications in New York City , as witnessed by the African American civil rights leader W.E.B . Du Bois , the Irish American nationalist Daniel Cohalan , the Nordic supremacist and armchair racial scientist Madison Grant , and the mixed-race novelist Jean Toomer . His second , American Mediterranean : Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation , was published in 2008 . It received honorable mention in the competition for the 2009 Gordon K . and Sybil Lewis Award , given by the Caribbean Studies Association . Therein , he traces the rise and fall of Southern slaveholding against a hemispheric backdrop , suggesting that the Old South was tightly connected to the Caribbean , the West Indies , and even South America , and that the Civil War fundamentally changed this relationship . A third book , Seeing Race in Modern America , was published in the Fall of 2013 by the University of North Carolina Press , and considers the history of racial sight over the past two hundred years . Framing the front and back of the book with a critique of racial profiling , Guterl suggests that the practice of seeing race is more commonplace than we think , and that unjust policing tactics share much with other , apparently benign racial sightlines , from narratives about multiracial adoption to platoon movies to silhouetting to debates about mixed-race children . His biography of the famous African American singer and performer , Josephine Baker , published in 2014 by Harvard University Press , focuses on her multiracial , transnational , adopted family in France and the historical contexts of decolonization , civil and human rights , liberalism and utopianism . Recently , he has described this book as a challenge , as well , to the notion of nation-time and conventional periodizations in American and world history . In the spring of 2015 , Guterl and his co-author , Caroline Field Levander , released Hotel Life , a book about the social and political work of hotels in contemporary American culture . Guterl is also the co-editor ( with James T . Campbell and Robert G . Lee ) of Race , Nation , and Empire in American History , published in 2007 . Guterl is also the editor of proposed Oxford Handbook on the History of Race . Awards . Guterl was the 2010 winner of the Mary Turpie Prize for Distinguished Teaching , Advising , and Program Development , from the American Studies Association . In that same year , he was given the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Arts and Humanities , Richard Stockton College of New Jersey . He has also been awarded fellowships from the Humanities Research Center , Rice University , the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America , Brown University , the National Museum of American History , Smithsonian Institution , the Gilder Lehrman Center , Yale University , and the Library Company of Philadelphia . External links . - Guterls blog - C.V .