Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis was born to activist Nancy Artinian and professor Athan Theoharis. She was raised in Fox Point, Wisconsin a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin near the campus of Marquette University where her father taught. She has two siblings Liz Theoharis co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, and George Theoharis a professor of education, at Syracuse University.{{cite web |last1=Higgins |first1=Jim |title=Marquette's Athan Theoharis used Hoover's secret files to document the FBI's illegal actions |url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/obituaries/2021/07/08/marquettes-athan-theoharis-documented-illegal-fbi-surveillance/7871872002/ |website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |publisher=Gannett |access-date=10 May 2023 |date=8 July 2021}}

Jeanne Theoharis graduated from Harvard College in 1991 with dual concentrations in Afro-American, and Women's Studies.{{cite web |last1=Forman |first1=Ross G. |title=To Catch A Fly: SWAT |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/6/9/to-catch-a-fly-pwhen-jeanne/ |website=thecrimson.com |publisher=The Harvard Crimson |access-date=10 May 2023 |date=9 June 1988}} She then went on to pursue a PhD, at the University of Michigan in American Culture.{{cite web |title=American Culture University of Michigan |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/ac |website=College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: American Culture University of Michigan |publisher=Regents of the University of Michigan |access-date=9 May 2023}}{{Cite web |title=Theoharis, Jeanne |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/jeanne-theoharis |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=www.gc.cuny.edu |language=en}} Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York (CUNY). In her work as a political science professor she specializes in contemporary politics of race and gender, social policy, urban studies and 20th century African American history.{{Cite web |title=Theoharis, Jeanne |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/jeanne-theoharis |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=www.gc.cuny.edu |language=en}} Theoharis is also the author of numerous books and articles on the Black freedom struggle, including the NAACP Image award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and A More Beautiful and Terrible History, which won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Prize in Nonfiction.  Theoharis' book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks was adapted into an award-winning  documentary directed by Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen and executive produced by Soledad O'Brien for NBC-Peacock, where she served as a consulting producer.  The documentary won a Peabody Award and a Television Academy Honor Award.

In 2013, Theoharis co-created, a roundtable discussion program entitled Conversations in Black Freedom Studies at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with Sarah Lawrence professor Komozi Woodard, and Lehman College professor Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine. The series features a roundtable of scholars and writers on the first Thursday of each month speaking on a topic in Black history, usually centered around a new book(s) in the field.{{cite web |last1=Baskin |first1=Lucien |title=Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: An Interview |url=https://www.aaihs.org/conversations-in-black-freedom-studies-an-interview/ |website=Black Perspectives |publisher=African American Intellectual History Society |access-date=10 May 2023 |date=28 February 2023}}

Theoharis has also worked as a faculty coleader in the Narrating Change, Changing Narratives research group of the 2014-2016 Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.{{Cite web |title=Jeanne Theoharis |url=https://centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/jeanne-theoharis |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=The Center for the Humanities |language=en-US}}

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;Essays

• Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "MLK Would never shut down a freeway and 6 other myths about the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter", The Root, July 15.
• Theoharis, Jeanne, Burgin, Say, 2015. "Rosa Parks wasn't Meek, Passive or Naive--and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn't Learn in School", The Nation, December 1.
• Marchevsky, Alejandra, and Jeanne Theoharis, 2006. Not working: Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform. NYU Press.
• Marchevsky, Alejandra, Theoharis, Jeanne, 2016. "Why It Matters That Hillary Clinton Championed Welfare Reform", The Nation, March 1.
• Coauthored: "Charlottesville belies racism’s deep roots in the North".{{Cite web |last1=Purnell |first1=Brian J. |last2=Theoharis |first2=Jeanne |title=Charlottesville belies racism's deep roots in the North |url=http://theconversation.com/charlottesville-belies-racisms-deep-roots-in-the-north-101567 |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=The Conversation |date=16 August 2018 |language=en}}
• {{cite book| title=The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780807050477| url-access=registration|date=29 January 2013|publisher=Beacon Press|isbn=978-0-8070-5048-4}}{{cite news|author1=Nell Irvin Painter|title=Mother of the Movement|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/books/review/the-rebellious-life-of-mrs-rosa-parks-by-jeanne-theoharis.html|access-date=7 August 2015|work=The New York Times|date=March 29, 2013|quote=Richly informative, calmly passionate and much needed, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” completes the portrait of a working-class activist who looked poverty and discrimination squarely in the face and never stopped rebelling against them, in the segregated South and in the segregated North.}}

;Books

• Theoharis, J. (2013). The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Beacon Press.
• {{cite book|author1=Noel S. Anderson|author2=Jeanne Theoharis|author3=Gaston Alonso|author4=Celina Su|title=Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Vdwl-X1bawC&pg=PA69|date=1 May 2009|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-8320-7|pages=69–}}
• {{cite book | last=Theoharis | first=J. | title=A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History | publisher=Beacon Press | year=2018 | isbn=978-0-8070-7587-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwtFDwAAQBAJ | access-date=2018-02-05}}
• {{cite book|author1=Brian Purnell |author2=Jeanne Theoharis|author3=with Komozi Woodard|title=The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South| publisher=NYU Press | year=2019 | isbn=9781479820337| url=https://nyupress.org/9781479820337/the-strange-careers-of-the-jim-crow-north/ }}

;Editor

• {{cite book|editor1=Jeanne Theoharis|editor2=Komozi Woodard|title=Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Czw8VQnuGwC|date=1 January 2005|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-8285-9}}
• {{cite book|editor1=Jeanne Theoharis|editor2=Komozi Woodard|title=Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3MbIyzDsfcC|date=1 November 2009|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-3230-4}}
• Jeanne F. Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, eds. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, {{ISBN|9780312294687}}

• 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks{{cite web |title=The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221039/the-rebellious-life-of-mrs-rosa-parks-by-jeanne-theoharis/ |website=penguinrandomhouse.com |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=9 May 2023}}

• 2014 NAACP Image Award, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_140225.php|title=Brooklyn College - Political Science Professor Wins NAACP Image Award for Book on Rosa Parks|work=cuny.edu|date=25 February 2014 |access-date=2015-08-07}}{{cite web|url=http://www.pghcitypaper.com/Blogh/archives/2015/03/25/jeanne-theoharis-speaks-about-rosa-parks-book-today-at-carnegie-mellon|title=Jeanne Theoharis speaks about Rosa Parks book today at Carnegie Mellon|work=Pittsburgh City Paper|access-date=2015-08-07}}

• 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Award for Nonfiction, A More Beautiful and Terrible History; The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History{{cite web|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-literary-prize|title=The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize|date=2017-03-20}}

• 2022 Peabody Award, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (documentary){{cite web |title=Winner 2022: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks |url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-rebellious-life-of-mrs-rosa-parks/ |website=peabodyawards.com |publisher=Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia |access-date=9 May 2023}}

• 2023: Television Academy Honors, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (documentary){{cite web |last1=VERHOEVEN |first1=Beatrice |title='Mo,' 'We're Here' Among 2023 Television Academy Honors |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2023-television-academy-honors-1235404009/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=10 May 2023 |date=27 April 2023}}

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• Jeanne Theoharis on the [http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/does-the-gop-know-the-real-rosa-parks--528884803693 Melissa Harris Perry show].
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• [http://www.zinnedproject.org/news/jeanne-theoharis-on-starring-mrs-rosa-parks/ Jeanne Theoharis on Starring Mrs. Rosa Parks: Film Excerpts and Behind the Scenes Commentary], from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online series.

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