Julia GunnDoctoral Fellow German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington DC 20009 U.S.A. Phone +1.202.387.3355 
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Biographical Summary
Julia Gunn is the doctoral fellow in African American History at the GHI and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Main Areas of Interest
- African American History
- Labor in the American South
- Urban History
GHI Research Project
- "A Good Place to Make Money: Civil Rights, Labor, and the Politics of Economic Development in Charlotte, North Carolina"
My research focuses on the relationship between African American politics, business, and the state in the second half of the twentieth century. This project traces the evolution of racially moderate, pro-business politics that laid the groundwork for the election of candidates like Charlotte's first black mayor, Harvey Gantt. I have chosen to focus my dissertation on Charlotte, North Carolina, a city that has become the second largest financial center in the United States after New York. Because of its centrality to banking, Charlotte is of regional, national, and even international significance. Bridging recent literature on "the long civil rights movement" and the changing relationship of organized labor to the state in the 1970s, my dissertation sheds light on the ways in which the economic transformations of the post-civil rights era have profoundly shaped and constrained African American politics in the United States.
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