Department of History and Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

Professor
Director, Margaret Walker Center
Director, COFO Civil Rights Education Center
Email: robert.luckett@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: COFO Center

DEGREES:
Ph.D. – History, University of Georgia (2009)
B.A. – Political Science, Yale University (1999)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Modern Civil Rights Movement
African American History
American History
Public History

COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate:
HIST 302: Local History – The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
HIST 309: History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
HIST 325: History of Mississippi
HIST 360: African American History to 1877
HIST 361: African American History since 1877
HIST 382: History of the South
HIST 450: Black Political and Social History

Graduate:
HIST 505: Introduction to Public History
HIST 506: Introduction to Museology
HIST 507: Archives and Records Management
HIST 522: Early African American History
HIST 523: Modern African American History
HIST 530: History of the South
HIST 545: Historical Criticism and Historiography
HIST 546: Historical Research for the Thesis
HIST 547: Historical Research for the Project
HIST 550: Oral History
HIST 552: Problems in American History
HIST 593: Graduate Seminar: Independent Study

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Southern Historical Association
American Historical Association
Oral History Association
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Association of African American Museums
Mississippi Historical Association
Mississippi Museums Association

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021)

Joe T. Patterson and the White South’s Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015)

Book Chapters:

“‘Midwife of a Movement’: Margaret Walker and the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival at Jackson State,” Co-author with Ebony Lumumba, The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies (Edinburgh UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2026)

“Historical Memory and the Meredith Monument at Ole Miss,” Chapter 17, pp.280-301, Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021)

“Conflict and Change, Bombs and Boycotts,” Chapter 5, pp.114-143, A Past That Won’t Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018)

“‘Hell Fired out of Him’: The Muting of James Silver in Mississippi,” Chapter 5, pp.123-137, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, Ted Ownby, ed. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013)

“Charles Sherrod and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Mass Action and Nonviolence in Albany,” Chapter 9, pp.181-195, The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement, Susan Glisson, ed. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)

FULL CURRICULUM VITA