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About Matt Simmons
I completed my Ph.D. in history from the University of Florida, where I served as a graduate coordinator in the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and taught courses in the History Department and the Writing Program. My manuscript, “Growing a Movement," explores the process of building a cohesive, interracial movement for economic justice among marginalized black and white tenant farmers and sharecroppers during the Great Depression in the Arkansas Delta and surrounding region. I completed my B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an M.A. in History at the University of Tulsa. My research interests include social movements, rural poverty, civil rights, Florida history, and Southern history. I have conducted & processed numerous oral histories with individuals from diverse backgrounds including farmworkers and civil rights activists. I am particularly interested in breaking down barriers between academe and local communities. My most recent public-facing publication is here: https://www.c21uwm.com/2023/03...
NBN Episodes hosted by Matt:
March 13, 2024
The Gospel of Church
In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. "Socialism," he wrote, "has become a disti…
December 29, 2023
Stories of Struggle
In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…
August 16, 2023
Discovering the South
During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. I…