Email: evan.wade@uconn.edu

Advisor: Jeffrey Ogbar

MA History, University of Connecticut, 2009
BA African American Studies, Morehouse College, 2007

Research Interests

Evan Wade studies 20th Century United States History with a focus on the African American experience.

Recent Publications 

The History of HBCUs: Lessons on Innovation from the Past” in Reimagining Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Survival Beyond 2021. Forthcoming, Emerald Press, May 28, 2021.

“Claiming and Signifying: Iota Phi Theta, Sage Philosophy, and the Ownership of 1960s Soul Music.” Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies 5, no. 2 (2020): 83-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5323/48573839

“The Connecticut UNIA: A Case Study of Black Nationalist Marketing Strategies.” National Social Science Association Conference Proceedings 64, no. 2 (2017): 101-110.
https://www.nssa.us/journals/pdf/NSSA_Proceedings_2017_Las_Vegas_2.pdf

The African American Primary Source Reader from 1865-Present, Charlotte, NC: Kona Press, 2016. https://konapublishing.com/catalog/the-african-american-primary-source-reader/