Irene Newman, Ph.D.

Irene Newman, Ph.D., leads discussion sections in the Politics of National Memory class. She works as a records researcher for the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. Newman previously worked for the Southern Oral History Program and the journal Southern Cultures. Her research focuses on white power organizing in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Newman has a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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