Dr. Leonard N. Moore

Director, African American Studies Program

Louisiana State University

Dr. Leonard N. Moore assumed the directorship of the African and African-American studies program in the fall of 2001. Born in 1971, the Cleveland Heights, Ohio, native received his B.A. in history from Jackson State University in 1993, his M.A. in History from Cleveland State University in 1994, and at the age of 26 he earned his Ph.D. in American History from Ohio State University.

Moore joined the faculty of the LSU History Department in 1998 and he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2002. Moore teaches courses in African-American History. His teaching and research interests include: African-American Urban History, Civil Rights, Black Nationalism, and Hip-Hop and American Culture. Moore also directs the Pre-doctoral Scholar's Institute, a summer residential program that prepares African-American undergraduates for graduate school.

In addition to his work in the classroom, Moore also advises a number of student organizations including: The Black Graduate and Professional Student Association and the LSU NAACP, and he also spends a great deal of time mentoring African-American student athletes.

He has provided commentary and his opinions have been solicited for a number of national and international media outlets including the Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and TIME Magazine.

Below is a sample list of his major publications:

• Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power in America, University of Illinois Press, 2002.
• "Carl B. Stokes: Mayor of Cleveland," in Black Mayors in America: Race and Power in the American City, Eds., Jeffrey Adler and David Colburn, University of Illinois Press, 2001, pp. 80-104.
• "Class Conflict Over Residential Space in an African-American Community: Cleveland's Lee-Seville Public Housing Controversy," in Ohio History, Vol. 111: Winter-Spring 2002, pp. 1-19.
• "The School Desegregation Crisis of Cleveland, Ohio, 1963-1964: The Catalyst for Black Political Power in a Northern City," in the Journal of Urban History, January 2002, pp. 135-157.
• "Carl Stokes and the Limits of Black Political Power," in Builders of Ohio, Eds., Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce, Ohio State University Press, 2003.
• "African-American Racial Identity and Sport," in Sport Education and Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2002, pp. 121-133 with Louis Harrison and C. Keith Harrison.
• Race, Police, and the City: Black Protest in Twentieth Century New Orleans (Under review, University of Illinois Press).