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Joe Block

Status: PhD Candidate

Adviser: Molly Worthen

Graduate Email: joeblock@live.unc.edu

Education

B.A. (Hons) University of Oxford, 2012
M.St. (Awarded with Distinction), United States History, University of Oxford, 2014

Research Interests

I study African American intellectual history. My dissertation focuses on the ideas that African American intellectuals developed about the Jewish people, between the 1820s and the 1920s.

Courses Offered

  • HIST125: The Social History of Popular Music in Twentieth Century America (TA)
  • HIST127: American History to 1865 (TA)
  • HIST128: American History since 1865 (TA)
  • HIST362: Baseball and American History (TA)
  • Honors Carolina Program, Cape Town, South Africa, Fall 2017 (TA)

554A Pauli Murray Hall*
102 Emerson Dr., CB #3195
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

*Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
phone: 919.962.2115
fax: 919.962.1403
email: history@unc.edu
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