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Bruce J. Dierenfield coordinates the college's program in the African American Experience. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College and holds a PhD in American history from the University of Virginia. Since 1986, he has been professor of history at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he specializes in 20th century American politics, society, and law and directs the All-College Honors Program. In 2004, he received the college’s Martin Luther King, Jr. award for fostering human rights. Dr. Dierenfield has also taught at the University of Helsinki (Finland), at Nanjing University (China), and, as a senior Fulbright scholar, at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn (Germany). He is the author or coauthor of four books, including The Federal Role and Activities in Energy Research and Development, 1946-1980: An Historical Summary (1983), Keeper of the Rules: Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia (1987), The Civil Rights Movement (2004), and The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (2007). His next books are on the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union and African American Leadership.
To read more about him, click here (Adobe Acrobat .PDF) for his Curriculum Vitae.
Phone: 888-2683
E-mail: dierenfb@canisius.edu