New York native Peter Rutkoff has been teaching at Kenyon College in Ohio since 1971, and is currently the Robert Oden Professor of American Studies. Peter took his bachelor's degree at St. Lawrence University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1999-2001, Peter held the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished teaching chair at Kenyon. Together with William B. Scott of the Kenyon history department, Rutkoff developed the "North By South" course that serves as the senior seminar in American studies at Kenyon. With several colleagues, he helped develop the American Studies program, first in 1990 as an interdisciplinary program, and since 2002 as an interdisciplinary major. His current scholarly interests include African American cultural studies and the African-American migrations, which are the subject of his forthcoming book with Will Scott, Fly Away: The Great African American Migrations. His other books include New York Modern: The Arts and the City with William B. Scott (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago, (McFarland, 2001) and Cooperstown Chronicles: Camp and Other Love Stories, Birch Brook Press, 2002.
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XOXOX Press 2004—ISBN 1 880977 10 9—$10.
80 pages, soft cover, 7 by 8.5 inches.