Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Wilson Jeremiah Moses is an African-American historian. He is Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University.Career
Wilson J. Moses obtained his A.B. and M.A. in British Literature at Wayne State University, and his Ph.D. in American Civilization at Brown University. He currently holds the Walter L. Ferree professorship in the middle period of American History at Pennsylvania State University. Before his current assignment, he has held a series of posts at other American Universities:
He also has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and given lectures at several European and African universities.Major works
- The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925, 1978; repr., Oxford University Press, 1988,
- Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth, 1982; Revised edition: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1993,
- Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent, Oxford University Press, 1989,
- The Wings of Ethiopia, Iowa State Univ. Press, 1990,
- Afrotopia: Roots of African-American Popular History, Cambridge University Press, 1998,
- Creative Conflict in African American Thought, Cambridge University Press, 2004,
