Dr. McCoy's research interests focus on African American history, the U.S. left, labor and political economy, and social movements and activism. His current manuscript project, tentatively titled, The Quest for Democracy:  Black Power, New Left, and Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Midwest revises conventional explanations emphasizing the separation and decline of Black Power and the New Left in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s.

Dr. McCoy is also public scholar, utilizing history to comment on contemporary issues related to politics and culture in numerous media outlets including the Washington Post, Nursing Clio, Black Perspectives , CNN, and Truthout.

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Chris Deutsch is the University of Missouri DPAA Research Partner Fellow. He provides historical research support for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the Agency’s mission “to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.” He is working on a manuscript under advanced contract with the University of Nebraska Press, tentatively titled, Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Prosperity in Postwar America, on the role of public policy and politics in the rise of beef production and consumption in the decades after World War II. The book will explore the government’s efforts to secure beef, which was a key metric of affluence and which Americans measured nightly on their dinner plates. He taught courses on food history, the 1980s, and the twentieth century. 

Bio from CCCU website: 

I am a historian of poverty and homelessness in England, and currently the Course Director of the History Subject Suite. My teaching focuses on the broad social and cultural contours of early modern Europe, on Atlantic colonialism, and on social problems in England c.1600-1800. My research looks at vagrancy and poverty in early modern England, and in the British Atlantic world. I am presently in the early stages of a new book project: tentatively called 'The Ends of Poverty, c. 1600-1800' and intend to cover material ranging from utopian imaginings to colonial displacement, and architectural and environmental design.

Joshua Greenberg is the editor for Commonplace: the journal of early American life. His research and writing examines the intersection of social, cultural, economic, and political history in the nineteenth century.

Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.  She is the author of four books, the editor or co-editor of two volumes on southern history and has written numerous essays and books, including No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, published in April 2021 and won the Michael V.R. Thomason book prize from the Gulf South Historical Association.

Kevin M. Kruse is a Professor of History at Princeton University. He specializes in the political, social, and urban/suburban history of twentieth-century America, with a particular interest in conflicts over race, rights and religion and the making of modern conservatism.