Sam Klug

Sam Klug

Sam Klug

Sam Klug is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History studying the history of the United States in a global context. His primary interests are in intellectual history, African American history, and international history. His research examines how the global process of decolonization shaped ideas about racial formation, economic development, and citizenship in the postwar United States. He is particularly interested in how policymakers and social scientists, as well as civil rights and Black Power activists and intellectuals, used political languages drawn from international development and anticolonial movements to rethink questions of racial inequality, political economy, and democratic governance in the U.S. between the Second World War and the middle of the 1970s. At Harvard, Klug has served as a teaching fellow for courses on the civil rights movement and American social thought, as well as the sophomore tutorial in history. His research has been supported by the Charles Warren Center for American History and the Rockefeller Archive Center. He holds a BA in History from Columbia University and an AM from Harvard.

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