Houston B. Roberson 
BA Mars Hill College, magna cum laude; MA Wake Forest University; PhD University of the North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: Walsh-Ellett 213
Phone: (931) 598-2798
Email: hroberso@sewanee.edu
Areas of Specialization
U. S. Intellectual and Religious History; African-American History
Courses Taught
African-American History to 1865; African-American History Since 1865; African-American Intellectual History; The African-American Church in Slavery and Freedom; The Civil Rights Movement; Historical and Literary Approaches to African-American Religious History; Civil Disobedience from Ancient Greece through Modern Africa; U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History to 1865; U. S. Cultural and Intellectual History Since 1865.
Biography
Houston Roberson’s research interests are religion, race and culture in the 20th century South and the American Civil Rights Movement. In 1998, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to participate in a Harvard University seminar on teaching the Southern Civil Rights Movement. In 2002, he co-edited and contributed a chapter to Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom’s Bittersweet Song. His monograph, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church: the Story of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865-1977 was published by Routledge Press in 2005. He continues to explore historical questions related to black institutional life, memorialization and civil rights. Currently he is working on a few projects: a journal-length article, “Kate Reynolds Hospital and the Integration of Health Care in Forsyth County, NC 1930-1971” and he is researching a book that explores the plight of black churches in the post civil rights era.
