Daryl Michael Scott

I am a professor of United States history at Morgan State University, and I’m the chair of the Department of History, Geography, and Museum Studies. I recently retired from Howard University, where I taught for twenty years. From 2005 until 2009, I served as chair of the department. I started my career at Columbia University in New York City in 1993. Afterwards, I served as Director of African American Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

I research and write on American intellectual history, nationalism in the United States, and, currently, convict slavery since 1615. In 1998, I won the James Rawley Prize for the best book in Race Relations History for Contempt and Pity: Social Science and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996. For my views of black nationalism, see “How Black Nationalism Became Sui Generis,” and on how white supremacy is a nationalist ideology arising from the specter of black citizenship, see “White Supremacy and the Question of Black Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South,” in Creating Citizenship in the American South.