Gordon K. Mantler

Gordon K. Mantler is Executive Director of the University Writing Program and Associate Professor of Writing and History at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In a former life, he worked in daily newspaper journalism at the Tampa Bay Times (formerly St. Petersburg Times) in Florida and the Greenville News in South Carolina. Since 1999, he has written and taught about social justice movements in the 20th century United States, most prominently the African American freedom struggle, the Chicano movement, and the intersections between the two. He received his doctorate in U.S., African American, Latino, and Latin American history at Duke University and has received numerous awards, including a Mellon Foundation grant to finish his dissertation and the first annual Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award. For more, see Mantler's personal website at gordonmantler.com.