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Donna Murch

  • Author and Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
Philadelphia
As seen in: The Guardian, The Washington Post, JSTOR Daily, Newsday, Business Report, The Nation, The New Republic, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, The Commercial Appeal, Boston Review and
History Prof at Rutgers University, New Brunswick Chapter President of Rutgers AAUP AFT and author of Living for the City and Assata Taught Me.
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Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She is currently completing a new trade press book entitled Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs. In October 2010, Murch published the award-winning monograph Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California with the University of North Carolina Press, which won the Phillis Wheatley prize in December 2011. She has written for the Sunday Washington Post, New Republic, Nation, Jacobin, Boston Review, Black Scholar, Souls, the Journal of Urban History, Journal of American History, the OAH Magazine, Perspectives and New Politics and appeared on BBC, CNN and Democracy Now.

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