Anthony Pratcher, who received his PhD from our department in 2017, has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy. He is currently completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Anthony’s dissertation, which he is currently turning into a book, is entitled “Ashes and Dust: Settler Colonialism and the Ascendance of Metropolitan Phoenix.” His committee consisted of Mary Frances Berry (chair), Eiichiro Azuma, Tom Sugrue (now at NYU), and Nathan Connolly (History, Johns Hopkins U.)
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