Robert Cassanello, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D. from Florida State University (2000)

Research Interests

Social History, Southern History, Race, Gender, Historiography

Recent Research Activities

Robert Cassanello has published articles in the Journal of Urban History, Florida Historical Quarterly and 49th Parallel. He is researching the racial integration and segregation of omnibuses, horsecars and streetcars in the United States during the 19th century. He is author of To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville. He has co-edited two books Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration with Melanie Shell-Weiss and Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 with Colin J. Davis.

Selected Publications

Books

• To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013
• Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 with Colin J. Davis, eds Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010
• Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration with Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009

Articles/Essays

• “Avoiding “Jim Crow:” Negotiating Separate and Equal on Florida’s Railroads and Streetcars and The Progressive Era Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1882-1905” Journal of Urban History, 34 (March 2008) 435-457.
• “The Epic of Greater Florida: Florida’s Global Past,” With Daniel S. Murphree, Florida Historical Quarterly, 84 (Summer 2005), 1-9
• “Racial Etiquette, Violence and African American Working Class Infrapolitics in Jacksonville during World War I,” Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Fall, 2003), 155-169
• “The Fluidity of Racial Hierarchy: Changing Ethnic Images of Germans and Czechs in the American Mind, 1877-1918," (March 2001) 49th Parallel

Book Sections/Chapters

• with Melanie Shell Weiss "Epilogue: Florida and the Contemporary Labor Movement," in Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009), 257-274
• with Melanie Shell Weiss "Introduction: The Promise of Florida's Labor History" in Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009), 1-16
• with Colin J. Davis, "Introduction" in Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), 1-12.
• We Are White Men and Haven't Got Black Hearts Racialized Gender and the Labor Movement in Florida, 1900-1920. in Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009

Courses

Updated: May 10, 2013