Donna Murch, Biography

Donna Murch is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University. Her teaching and research specialization is postwar U.S. history, modern African American history, and twentieth-century urban studies.  She received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley and has subsequently given many scholarly talks and teaching presentations at notable institutions, including the New York Historical Society, the Smithsonian National Gallery, Columbia University, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Professor Murch has published several scholarly articles and has recently completed a book entitled Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (University of North Carolina Press, Spring 2010).  Dr. Murch has also won numerous fellowships and awards, including a Teaching Effectiveness Award at U.C. Berkeley in 2001 and a Woodrow Wilson postdoctoral fellowship in 2006. She is currently working on a new book on race, juvenile delinquency, and postwar incarceration.