Matthew Guterl

Matthew Pratt Guterl is a historian of the United States from the Civil War to the present, with extensive expertise in the history of race-relations, civil and human rights, and empire. He earned his BA from what was then called Stockton State College in 1993 (now Stockton University) and his PhD from Rutgers University in 1999. Guterl is the author of five scholarly monographs: The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Harvard, 2001), American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders and the Age of Emancipation (Harvard, 2008), Seeing Race in Modern America (UNC, 2013), and Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe (Harvard, 2014). He is the co-author, with Caroline Levander, of Hotel Life (UNC, 2015). His memoir about growing up in a multiracial adoptive household, Skinfolk, was published in 2023 by Liveright. He is presently finishing a global biography of the queer, cosmopolitan, human rights activist, Roger Casement. The book is tentatively titled: The Hanged Man. Now with the support of the Guggenheim fellowship, Guterl has begun researching and writing a new history focused on the 1960s and 1970s, titled The Troubles, focused on the connections and disjunctions, the parallels and divergencies of Black radical politics and “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland.