Max Krochmal, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., Duke University, 2011
M.A., Duke University, 2007
B.A., Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004
About
Max Krochmal is Professor of U.S. History, the Czech Republic Endowed Professor in Justice, and Director of the Ph.D. in at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of (University of North Carolina Press), winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and other prizes, and co-editor of (University of Texas Press), which won the Oral History Association Book Award and was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant. Krochmal served as the Chair of U.S. Studies and a Fulbright-Garc铆a Robles fellow at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (2022). Previously, he was the founding Chair of the Department of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and a history professor at Texas Christian University. Active in both scholarship and community organizing, Krochmal co-chaired the Fort Worth Independent School District Racial Equity Committee (2017-2021) and partnered with the district and colleagues to co-create (TCU Press). As a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice, he was recently admitted as an expert witness on voting rights and provided testimony in federal court (Petteway v. Galveston 3:22-cv-57, S.D. TX). He currently serves as president of the and an . He is a native of Reno, Nevada, and majored in Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, before earning graduate degrees in History at Duke University.
Honors and Awards
2022 Oral History Association Book Award, for
2022 Fulbright-Garc铆a Robles Fellowship, U.S. Studies Chair, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
2021- OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
2015-19 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, for the (principal investigator)
2017 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians, for
2017 Non-Fiction Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco, for
2013-2014 Summerlee Fellowship in Texas History, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, for