Richard Mizelle

Assistant Professor of History

Richard Mizelle received his B.A. in History from North Carolina Central University (1998), M.A. in American History from American University (2000), and Ph.D. in American History at Rutgers University (2006). He joined the Department of History at FSU in the fall of 2007 after a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. His specialization is twentieth century U.S. social and cultural history with an emphasis on the history of race and health in America, the cultural history of disease, race and environment, and the infrastructure of healthcare in modern America.

Professor Mizelle teaches on the history of environmental disasters, the Civil Rights Movement and African American Experience, the social history of medicine, and historical intersections of race, environment, technology and health. His current research project examines the social and cultural dimensions of the Great 1927 Mississippi River Flood, tracing the ways in which interrelated issues of disease, race, labor, and the politics of violence shaped the experiences of African American levee workers and Mississippi Delta residents.

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				Richard Mizelle Assistant Professor of History Richard Mizelle received his B.A. in History from North Carolina Central University (1998), M.A. in American History from American University (2000), and Ph.D. in American History at Rutgers University (2006). He joined the Department of History at FSU in the fall of 2007 after a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. His specialization is twentieth century U.S. social and cultural history with an emphasis on the history of race and health in America, the cultural history of disease, race and environment, and the infrastructure of healthcare in modern America. Professor Mizelle teaches on the history of environmental disasters, the Civil Rights Movement and African American Experience, the social history of medicine, and historical intersections of race, environment, technology and health. His current research project examines the social and cultural dimensions of the Great 1927 Mississippi River Flood, tracing the ways in which interrelated issues of disease, race, labor, and the politics of violence shaped the experiences of African American levee workers and Mississippi Delta residents.