Robert Cassanello, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor

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407-823-1681
Office Hours: Mondays 5-6pm and by appointment.
Campus Location: CNH416
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Education

Research Interests

Social History, Southern History, Race, Gender, Historiography

Selected Publications

Books

Publication Image Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 with Colin J. Davis, eds Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010

Publication Image 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, (Winter 2003)

“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

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number Course Title Mode Date and Time
21029 AMH3425 SUNBELT FLORIDA WWW -
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