Patricia Sullivan

Patricia Sullivan specializes in modern U.S. history, with an emphasis on African-American history, race relations, and the history of the civil rights movement.

Professor Sullivan teaches courses in 20th century U.S. history. Her areas of interest include African-American history; the South since the Civil War; race, reform, and politics in the United States; and the history of the civil rights movement. She also teaches graduate courses on modern African-American history and on civil rights struggles in the 20th century.

She is the author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era; Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years; New Directions in Civil Rights Studies, co-edited with Armstead L. Robinson; and Civil Rights in the United States, a two-volume encyclopedia co-edited with Waldo E. Martin Jr. She and Waldo Martin are editors of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, published by the University of North Carolina Press.