Research
Interests:
Law
and race in America; civil rights policy; U.S. legal-constitutional
history; African American history; Reconstruction
Selection
of Recent & Reoccurring Courses:
The
Civil Rights Movement in America; Civil Rights Policy
Since 1945; Race, Labor and Civil Rights in America; Emancipation
and Its Aftermath, 1861-1900; Modern America; Early America;
Civil War and Reconstruction; U.S Constitutional History
Biography:
A
native Iowan, Donald G. Nieman received his B.A. from
Drake University (1970) and his Ph.D. in History from
Rice University (1975). A specialist in the U.S. constitutional-legal
history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the African
American experience, he is the author of To Set the Law
in Motion: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Legal Rights
of Blacks, 1865-1868 (Kraus, 1979) and Promises to Keep:
African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to
the Present (Oxford University Press, 1991) and the editor
of The Constitution, Law, and American Life: Critical
Aspects of the Nineteenth Century Experience (University
of Georgia Press, 1992), African American Life in the
Post-Emancipation South, 1861-1900 (12 vols; Garland,
1994), Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction: Collected
Writings of LaWanda Cox (University of Georgia Press,
1997), and Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in
the Nineteenth Century South (University of Georgia Press,
2001). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern
History, Reviews in American History, Southern Journal
of Legal History, Cardozo Law Review, Chicago Kent Law
Review, and numerous collections of essays. He has held
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the American Council of Learned Societies, the American
Bar Foundation, New York University Law School, and the
American Association for State and Local History. He has
taught at Kansas State University, Hunter College of the
City University of New York, New York University, Clemson
University, and Brooklyn College of the City University
of New York, where he served as the Daniel M. Lyons Distinguished
Professor in 1990-91. He joined the faculty of Bowling
Green State University in 1994, when he became Chair of
the History Department. He held that position until July
2000, when he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts
& Sciences, his current position. Nieman's current
research focuses on recent civil rights policy and the
impact of black political power on justice and social
relationships in the post-emancipation South.
Selected
Publications:
Author: To Set the Law in Motion: The Freedmen's Bureau and
the Legal Rights of Blacks, 1865-1868 (Kraus, 1979)
Author: Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional
Order, 1776 to the Present (Oxford University Press,
1991)
Editor: The Constitution, Law, and American Life: Critical
Aspects of the Nineteenth Century Experience (University
of Georgia Press, 1992)
Editor: African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South,
1861-1900 (12 vols; Garland, 1994)
Editor: Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction: Collected Writings
of LaWanda Cox (University of Georgia Press, 1997)
Co-editor
(with Christopher Waldrep): Local Matters: Race, Crime,
and Justice in the Nineteenth Century South (University
of Georgia Press, 2001)
Awards
and Honors:
Faculty
Excellence Award, College of Arts & Sciences, BGSU,
1998
Provost's
Award for Research Excellence, Clemson University, 1994
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1992
American
Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1993
Golieb
Fellowship, New York University Law School, 1983-84
American
Bar Foundation Fellowship, 1982 |
