Faculty Bio

Benjamin St. Angelo

Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History

Education

• B.A., history, The Ohio State University
• M.A., American history, The Ohio State Univeristy
• Ph.D., modern American history, The Ohio State University

About

Ben St. Angelo, Ph.D., is broadly interested in understanding how marginalized populations have leveraged their intellectual strength and collective power to ensure justice under the law, in employment, and through union representation. His teaching challenges students to consider the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and the ways everyday people influence the rules governing their lives.

Publications

• "Little Steel's Labor War in Youngstown," Madison Historical Review. Volume 18 (Spring 2021). Available at https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol18/iss1/7/
• "Surviving Strategic Discontent: The Tumultuous Days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," Picturing Black History. (January 2023). Available at https://picturingblackhistory.org/surviving-strategic-discontent/
• "The Tumultuous Days of the SNCC," in Picturing Black History: Photos and Stories that Changed the World, eds. Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Steve Conn (New York: Abrams Books, 2024). Available at https://store.abramsbooks.com/products/picturing-black-history