Associate Professor of History
Email: Leilah.Danielson@nau.edu
Website: jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lcd23
Office phone: (928) 523-8425
Office LA 314
Research and Teaching Interests
My research and teaching interests include culture, religion, and the history of the American left; the Cold War; African-American history; and history education. I am currently writing a new biography of A.J. Muste, an intellectual and activist best known for his role in the labor and left-wing movements of the 1920s and 1930s, and for his leadership of the American peace movement from 1941 until his death in 1967. He also had considerable influence on the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and was an outspoken critic of Christian neo-orthodoxy in liberal Protestantism after World War II.
Courses Taught
American Thought and Culture I; American Thought and Culture II; American Radicalism; Cold War America; History Education
Select Publications
“'It is a Day of Judgment': The Peacemakers, Religion, and Radicalism in Cold War America.” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. (forthcoming Summer 2008)
“Christianity, Dissent, and the Cold War: A.J. Muste’s Challenge to Realism and U.S. Empire.” Diplomatic History 30, no. 4 (September 2006): 645-70.
“The ‘Two-ness’ of the Movement: James Farmer, Nonviolence, and Black Nationalism.” Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research 29, no. 3&4 (July 2004): 430-53.
“‘In My Extremity I Turned to Gandhi’: American Pacifists, Christianity, and Gandhian Nonviolence, 1915-1941.” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 72, no. 2 (June 2003): 361-88.
Recent Professional Service/Awards
Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001-2002
Travel-to-Collection Research Grant, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2000
Alice E. Smith Fellowship, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1999-2000
David Bruton, Jr. Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2000; 2001-2002