Julia Rabig

Dr. Rabig received her PhD in 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania and has completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for the Study of African American Politics and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. Her research analyzes civil rights and Black power activists’ attempts to remake local politics and federal policy in the aftermath of the 1960s urban uprisings. An adapted version of her doctoral dissertation “The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960-1990′′ appears in Black Power at Work: Community Control and Affirmative Action in the Construction Industry, 1960s-70s.