About me
Michael Staudenmaier is an independent scholar living in Chicago. He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois and taught for more than a decade at various universities in Illinois and Indiana. He is the author of White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) and Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986 (AK Press, 2012), and co-author of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action (PM Press, 2023). He has published numerous shorter works in both academic and popular venues including the Journal of American History and the Chicago Tribune. Since 2020 he has been an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Puerto Rican Studies Association. He has worked in solidarity with the Puerto Rican independence movement in Chicago for more than three decades and volunteers on the Board of Directors of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School in the city's Humboldt Park neighborhood.
