Jeffrey Gonda
Associate Professor, History
Degree
Ph.D., Yale University, 2012
Specialties
African American history, 20th century U.S. legal, urban, political.
Courses
HST 102 American History Since 1865
HST 306 The Long Civil Rights Era
HST 401 Race and The Law
Biography
Jeffrey
Gonda specializes in legal history and the history of the civil rights
movement. He is the author of Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases
and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (University of North Carolina
Press, 2015) which examines how the legal fight against housing discrimination
in the 1940s and the landmark case of Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) helped
transform civil rights litigation in the twentieth century. In 2015, Professor
Gonda’s research on the Shelley case received the Supreme Court
Historical Society’s prestigious Hughes-Gossett Award. He is currently working
on a new book entitled No Crystal Stair: Black Women and Civil Rights Law in
Postwar America which explores the largely unheralded role of African
American women lawyers and litigants in the civil rights struggles of the 1940s
and 1950s. He was named a Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University in 2016
while working on this new manuscript. He received the Maxwell School’s Moynihan
Award for Teaching and Research, and Syracuse University’s Meredith Teaching
Recognition Award. Professor Gonda
teaches a variety of courses on the history of social movements, law, sports,
and race.
Research Projects
"Home Front: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement"