Robert Bauman
Associate Professor of History
WSU Tri-Cities –
509-372-7249
rbauman@tricity.wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
Academic & Professional Interests
Bauman teaches American history and public history courses, including courses on the civil rights movement, immigration, migration and ethnic identity, and the Cold War. Bauman's research interests are in the areas of race and ethnicity in the American West and poverty and public policy.
Publications
Bauman's most recent publications include "Jim Crow in the Tri-Cities, 1943–1950," Pacific Northwest Quarterly (Summer 2005), and "The Black Power and Chicano Movements in the Poverty Wars in Los Angeles," Journal of Urban History (January 2007). His latest book Race & The War on Poverty From Watts to East L.A.was published by the University of Oklahoma Press fall 2008.
Honors & Awards
Bauman was awarded an invitation to give a presentation of his war on poverty research at the prestigious Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University in 2003. His article on racial segregation in the Tri-Cities was given the Charles Gates Award for the best article to appear in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2005.