Augustus Wood
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
School of Labor and Employment Relations
225 LER Building, 504 E. Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
Education
PhD, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020
MA, History, Clark Atlanta University, 2012
BA, History, Morehouse College, 2007
Research Interests
Augustus is a scholar of African American History of the Urban South with an interdisciplinary focus on political economy, intra-racial class struggle, working class social movements, and gentrification in modern urban regions. He also centralizes the role of labor struggles in anti-Black working-class racial oppression and the development of internal neo-colonialism. His other research includes Black Power in Southern Cities, Black Marxism in History, and Black Radicalism in labor social movements.
Publications
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta | Augustus Wood | University of North Carolina Press
Courses
LER 100 Introduction to Labor Studies
LER 120 Contemporary Labor Problems
LER 130 Labor History
LER 320 Gender, Race, Class, and Work