Biography

Chanelle N. Rose specializes in Modern American history with particular emphases on African American history, post-WWII America, Civil Rights-Black Power, tourism, conservatism, and urban history.  She received both her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Florida International University and her Ph.D. at the University of Miami. Her first book, The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968, was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 2015. The book examines the long struggle for civil rights in one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. It complicates the black/white binary and offers a new way of understanding the complexity of racial traditions and white supremacy in southern metropolises like Miami. 

Aside from her book projects, Professor Rose has published in her field's top journals, including the Journal of Social History and the Journal of Urban History. Her current book project, tentatively titled Beyond Boundaries: Black Conservatisms and Grassroots Organizing During the Post-WWII Urban Crisis, examines how the urban crisis provides a case study for understanding the emergence of grassroots conservatism in urban Black communities from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.