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 Professor of History
Office: 302 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-3425
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Craig.Wilder@Dartmouth.edu
Address:
- Department of History
Dartmouth College
6107 Carson Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Courses
- 1: The United States, 1763-1877
- 2: History of the United States since 1877
- 6: Historical Materialism: The Marxist Theory of the Past
- 16: Black America to the Civil War
- 17: Black America since the Civil War
- 37: The Black Radical Tradition in America
- 96: The Ghetto from Venice to Harlem
Craig Steven Wilder studies United States urban history, with a particular focus on race, religion, and culture. In 2004, Columbia University awarded him the University Medal of Excellence during its 250th Anniversary Commencement.
Professor Wilder began his career as a community organizer in the South Bronx, and he continues to balance teaching, scholarship, and activism. For more than a decade, Wilder has worked on curricular and professional development with public school teachers in low-income areas of New York City. He has led seminars and workshops on urban affairs and race relations for community organizations in the inner city. He has also been pursuing interests in mental illness and the urban poor. Recently, Wilder joined the board of Gould Farm, the nation’s oldest therapeutic community for people with mental illnesses.
Professor Wilder has advised and appeared in numerous historical documentaries, most recently the History Channel’s “F.D.R.: A Presidency Revealed” and Ric Burns' award-winning PBS series, "New York: Documentary History." He has directed or advised exhibits at regional and national museums, including the Brooklyn Historical Society, the New-York Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, and the New York State Museum. He was one of the original historians for the Museum of Sex in New York City, and he maintains an active public history program with many smaller local museums and cultural societies.
Wilder is the author of A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (Columbia: 2000) and In the Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City (NYU: 2001/2004).
His current research project examines the historical evolution of the ghetto. He is also writing a history of school segregation in New York City.
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