Professor of History Colin Gordon awarded NEH Fellowship
The prestigious honor will support Gordon s research into the race-restrictive housing covenants that fueled structural segregation in St. Louis
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Colin Gordon, the F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa, has received the nation s most prestigious award for humanities scholarship, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship.
Gordon s fellowship will support research for his upcoming monograph, tentatively titled
Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Covenants and the Architecture of Segregation. The monograph, and a digital companion project, will be the newest publications of his long-running and influential research into policies that created and have sustained residential racial segregation throughout St. Louis, Missouri, and its suburbs.