Craig Steven Wilder
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Craig Steven Wilder is a professor of American history at Dartmouth College. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University focusing on urban history, under the tutelage of Kenneth T. Jackson, as well as Barbara J. Fields, and Eric Foner. His doctoral disseration was titled Race and the History of Brooklyn, New York which followed the history of Brooklyn from the arrival of the Dutch to the present day, focusing on the experiences of African-Americans. He has appeared on the History Channel's F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed and on Ric Burns' PBS series, New York: A Documentary History. Wilder was an assistant professor and Chair of African-American Studies at Williams College from 1995 to 2002, when he joined the faculty at Dartmouth. He is the author of A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (2000) and In The Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City (2001). He was awarded The University Medal of Excellence by Columbia University in 2004.
