Humanities Staff

Professor Neil Wynn

Position
Professor of 20th Century American History

Contact
Email: nwynn@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1242 714697

Professor Neil Wynn teaches American history and contributes to courses on Crime and Punishment and Writing and Representing History. He is the author of The Afro American and the Second World War (1976, 2nd edition 1993), From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society (1986), Historical Dictionary From Great War to Great Depression (2003), Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt Truman Era (2008), editor of Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe (2007), and co-editor of America's Century: Perspectives on U.S. History since 1900 (1993). He has contributed chapters to various books, written a number of journal articles and reviews on African American and American history, and on aspects of American culture ranging from sport to crime fiction and music. He is now writing on American society and World War II, race relations in Britain in the 1940s, and on the Jazz Age. Among his general interests are US race relations, African American culture, crime fiction and popular culture. He has taught in the USA and at the Maastricht Centre for Transatlantic Studies (now the Middelburg Centre). Professor Wynn is also responsible for postgraduate research in the History area and is involved in the Paul Oliver Collection for African American Music and Related Traditions housed in the University Archives.