Carla J DuBose-Simons
Carla J DuBose-Simons earned her doctorate in American History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in February, 2013. Her dissertation entitled The ‘Silent Arrival’: The second wave of the Great Migration and its affects on black New York, 1940-1950 examines the demographic, economic, and social effects of the World War II migration of southern blacks to New York City. The dissertation maps areas of black settlement in the city, explains the process by which blacks found employment, analyzes early civil rights activism in the city, and explores the expansion of black settlement beyond the boundaries of Harlem.
Her research interests include New York City history, African American history, and the history of community formation. She is the author of “Fighting Against Jim Crow Hiring” in The Economic Civil Rights Movement: African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power which was published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group in 2013. Prof. DuBose-Simons published an article on black settlement in the South Bronx “Movin’ on Up: African Americans in the South Bronx in the 1940s” in the Fall 2014 issue of the New York State Historical Association’s quarterly journal New York History. She most recently wrote “Leading The Afro-American Realty Company – A Review of “Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem” for The Metropole – the official blog for the Urban History Association in May of 2022.
Dr. DuBose-Simons is an Assistant Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Westchester Community College where she teaches colonial American, 20th Century American, and African-American history classes. Dr DuBose advises the Black Student Union on campus. She also serves as Assistant Editor of the Ethnic Students Review, University of California Press https://online.ucpress.edu/esr Dr DuBose-Simons organized and co-chaired the inaugural Teaching History Writing Conference on March 11, 2021 https://teachinghistorywriting.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Dr. DuBose-Simons has been named a SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ) Fellow for the 2023-24 academic year. SUNY DEISJ Fellows are experts in diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice content who aid in the implementation of new SUNY General Education DEISJ learning outcomes across the university by providing peer-to-peer support to faculty developing DEISJ courses.
Contact Information
Phone: 914-606-8688
Office location: Classroom Bldg. – Rm 29
Email: carla.dubose@sunywcc.edu
Title(s): Assistant Professor of History
Department/Division: Humanities Department / School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Degree Information:
- Doctor of Philosophy in History, concentration in American and African American history, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Courses Taught:
- 20th Century U.S. History
- US History Colonial to 1800
- African American History to 1865
- African American History from 1865
Publications and Presentations:
- “World War II”, Jim Crow Encyclopedia, ed. Nikki L. M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford, (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008.)
- “Fighting Against Jim Crow Hiring.”The Economic Civil Rights Movement, ed. Michael Ezra. (New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2013.)
- “Movin’ on Up: African Americans in the South Bronx in the 1940s” New York History: A Quarterly Journal, Fall 2014, Vol 95 Issue 4, p. 543
- “Leading The Afro-American Realty Company – A Review of “Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem” for The Metropole – the official blog for the Urban History Association in May of 2022.