Malcolm Cammeron is a scholar of nineteenth and  twentieth century U.S. history. His research interests are in African American, environmental, labor, and urban history, particularly in the American South. His book project foregrounds the built environment and development during the modern Civil Rights Movement in the urban South.

Cammeron received an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. He also received an M.A. in History and B.A. from the University of Alabama.

Malcolm D. Cammeron

mc6sj@virginia.edu

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Virginia, 2019-Summer 2025
Examination fields: African American History Since 1865, 20th Century U.S. Urban and
Environmental History, U.S. Labor History Since 1865
Dissertation: “The Bulldozer and the Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in the
Age of Urban Renewal”
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Kahrl

M.A., History, University of Virginia, May 2022
Thesis: “Steppingstones and Boundary Lines: Southern Democrats and Federal Urban
Policy”

M.A., History, The University of Alabama, May 2019
Thesis: “Segregation by Another Name: Slum Clearance in the Queen City on the
Coosa”

B.S., Marketing and Spanish, The University of Alabama, August 2012

Selected Publications, Projects, Presentations, and Public Scholarship
Publications:
“A Way In: Digital Pedagogy Training with Speculative, Low-Tech Workshops,” with Caroline
Carter, Winnie E. Pérez Martínez, Samatha Stephens, and Brandon Walsh, The Journal of
Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 24 (May 2024).
African American Outdoor Recreation: A National Historic Landmarks Theme Study, (with Andrew W.
Kahrl), (National Park Service, 2022).
Digital Humanities Project:
“African Americans and the Great Outdoors,” with Gramond McPherson, Allison Mitchell, Reilly
Nist, and Sydney Seigal, African American Outdoor Recreation: A National Historic Landmarks
Theme Study, National Park Service, 2022.

Conference Presentations:
“Refusing the Silence: Close Reading, Oral History, and Personal Collections as Method in Southern
Appalachia,” Appalachian Studies Association, Cullowhee, N.C, March 2024.
“Public Housing and Jim Crow in Southern Appalachia, 1949-1954,” Urban History Association,
Pittsburgh, Penn., October 2023.
“Jim Crow Planning: Race and Postwar Urban Planning in Alabama,” Urban History Association,
Pittsburgh, Penn., October 2023.
“Preserving Black Pasts: Public Histories of African American Leisure and Recreation,”
Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, Calif., March 2023.
“Between the Railroad and the Ridge: Southern Politics, Placemaking, and Public Housing in
Alabama,” African American Intellectual History Society Conference, The University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, N.C., March 2023.
“All ‘Mixed Up’: The Struggle for Equitable Housing in 1950’s Gadsden,” “Honoring Our
People”: History and Archaeology Conference, The University of Alabama Gadsden Center,
Gadsden, Ala., July 2019.
“Segregation by Another Name: Slum Clearance in the Queen City on the Coosa,” Association for
the Study of African American Life and History, Indianapolis, Ind., October 2018.
Paper, The University of Alabama Graduate History Association Conference on Power and
Struggle, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., October 2018.
Invited Presentations, Talks, and Workshops:
Workshop, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. December 2024. (Scheduled)
Talk, Second Tuesday Forum, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va. October 2024 (Scheduled)
Workshop, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. April 2024.
Workshop, Modern America Seminar, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. March
2024.
Workshop, 20th Century American History Working Group, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va. February 2024.
Guest Lecture, “Hailing the Bulldozer: Urban Renewal and Local Control in the South” HIUS
3620 All Politics is Local, taught by Dr. Andrew Kahrl, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Va. February 2024.
“Taking the Magic City: Race, Labor, and Planning in Midcentury Alabama,” Georgia State
University Libraries Webinar, November 2023.
“Crafting The Story: The How-To’s of Public History,” Alabama African American Civil Rights
Heritage Sites Consortium June Convening, Birmingham, Ala. June 2023.
Workshop, 20th Century American History Working Group, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va. April 2023.
“Invasion of the Mappers: A Workshop on Counter-Cartographic Practice,” Scholar’s Lab, The
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. April 2023.
Workshop, Repair Lab, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. December 2022.
“The Beach is Theirs: Preserving SANS,” Preservation League of NYS Webinar. August 2020.
Discussion, “History and Reconciliation: Conversations on Slavery, Historic Preservation, and
Community in the South,” The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. October 2019.
“Civil Rights and the History of Community Action,” Community Action Association of Alabama
2019 Annual May Conference, 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala. May 2019.

Book Reviews:
Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South, Evan
Faulkenbury, The Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians 28 (September 2020).
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein,
Southern Historian 40 (Spring 2019): 105-107.
The Risen Phoenix: Black Politics in the Post-Civil War South, Luis-Alejandro Dinnela-Borrego, Southern
Historian 39 (Spring 2018): 73-75.
Conference Posters:
“An Example for Communities”: National and Global Acclaim for Alabama City Planning,” Society
for American City and Regional Planning History Eighteenth National Planning History
Conference, Arlington, VA, November 2019.
“Segregation by Another Name: City Planning in Gadsden, Alabama, 1949-1962,” Urban History
Association Ninth Biennial Conference, Columbia, SC, October 2018.
Public Scholarship:
Saving Grace: Preserving Black History in Southern Appalachia, 2019. (documentary)
“How Early White House Conversations Influenced Civil Rights,” whitehousehistory.org, July 24,
2018. (blog post)
Conference, Event, and Symposium Planning
2024 “Co-organizer, “Blackness Beyond Protestantism: A Critical
Conversation Between Religion and Black Studies,” April, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
2022 Co-organizer, “Commune: A Student-Led Interdisciplinary
Environmental Justice Gathering,” April, University of Virginia,
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Charlottesville, Va.
2019 Co-Organizer, “History and Reconciliation: Conversations on Slavery,
Historic Preservation, and Community in the South,” October, The
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
2018 Co-organizer, The University of Alabama Graduate History Association’s
“Conference on Power and Struggle,” October, The University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant
Spring 2022 “Digitizing America: 1980 to the Present,” University of Virginia, Dr.
Brian Balogh
Fall 2021 “From Motown to Hip Hop,” University of Virginia, Dr. Claudrena
Harold
Spring 2019 “American Civilization Since 1865,” The University of Alabama, Dr.
Andrew Huebner
Fall 2018 “Western Civilization to 1648,” The University of Alabama, Dr. Daniel
Riches
Instructor
Summer 2019 “American Civilization Since 1965,” Summer 2019, online

Selected Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors

2024 Society of Fellows, The University of Virginia
2024 Summer Research Grant, Corcoran Department of History, University of
Virginia
2024 Conference Travel Grant, Corcoran Department of History, University of
Virginia
2024 BIPOC Scholarship, Appalachian Studies Association
2023 Reed Fink Award, Georgia State University
2023 Summer Research Grant, Corcoran Department of History, University of
Virginia
2023 Research Grant, Repair Lab, University of Virginia
2023-2025 Pre-Doctoral Fellow, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African
American and African Studies, The University of Virginia
2023 Conference Travel Grant, University of Virginia
2022 Praxis Program in Digital Humanities Fellowship, University of Virginia
2022 Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Award,
University of Virginia
2022 Teaching Relief Fellowship, The University of Virginia (declined)
2020 Summer Research Grant, Corcoran Department of History, University
of Virginia
2020 Member, Raven Society, University of Virginia
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2020 Raven Fellowship, University of Virginia
2019 Research Grant, Race, Religion, and Democracy Lab, University of
Virginia
2019-2024 Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia
2018 Travel Grant, Graduate School, The University of Alabama
Relevant Public Humanities Experience
2024 Intern, African American Civil Rights Network, National Park Service
2020-2021 Graduate Research Assistant, National Park Service and Organization of
American Historians’ African American Outdoor Recreation Historic
Resource Study
2019 Intern, 16th Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
2018 Intern, The White House Historical Association
2012 Intern, The University of Alabama Press
Selected Professional and University Service
2024 Assistant Editor, The Metropole (Blog), Urban History Association
2023 Praxis Digital Humanities Fellowship Application Committee, Scholar’s
Lab, University of Virginia Libraries, University of Virginia
2020-2021 Graduate Research Assistant, Repair Lab, University of Virginia
2018-2019 President, Graduate History Association, The University of Alabama
2018-2019 Mentor, Tide Together Mentoring Program, The University of
Alabama
2018 Copy and Web Editor, Southern Historian, The University of Alabama
Professional Membership
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
• Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH)
• Urban History Association (UHA)