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Walter C. Stern is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research examines the intersections of racism, state action, and the lives of ordinary people in the nineteenth and twentieth-century United States, with a focus on public schools in the metropolitan South. He is the author of 'Race & Education in New Orleans: Creating a Segregated City, 1764-1960,' which was awarded the 2018 Williams Prize for a book in Louisiana history. His current book project explores the criminalization of Black youth during the desegregation era, highlighting the roles school officials, police, prosecutors, legislators, and judges played in the process. This project centers around the case of Gary Tyler, a Black teenager wrongfully imprisoned for 42 years for the fatal shooting of a white student during the desegregation of a Louisiana high school in 1974.
University of Wisconsin–Madison • Madison, WI
Department: Department of Computer Sciences