Levy, James
Office: TBA
E-mail: anders.j.levy@gmail.com
James Levy is a historian, scholar of American race and ethnicity, and expert in the field of public humanities. He directs the Race and Place Coalition, a non-profit that partners with community groups, cultural institutions, tribal nations, K-12 schools and colleges to create humanities content and media pieces supporting racial equity and social justice. He founded the Diverse Suburbs Oral History Project whose collection was featured in a major exhibition at Harlem’s Schomburg Center called Black Suburbia: From Levittown to Ferguson. He also founded and directed the Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project, whose Lands We Share exhibition was honored nationally with the Elizabeth B. Mason Award from the Oral History Association in 2020.