Brandon Render | Assistant Professor
Brandon Render
Assistant Professor
801/581-7605
CTIHB 321
About
Brandon James Render is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Utah. His research interests include twentieth century United States history, post-1945 social and intellectual movements, and the Black intellectual tradition. His current book project, Colorblind University: A History of Racial Ideologies in Higher Education, traces the intellectual genealogy of racial colorblindness through admissions policies, department structures, and curriculum design. He argues that Black Americans' activism and university policy during the civil rights and Black Power eras fundamentally re-shaped Americans' collective interpretation of race. He has published his research in The Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Black Perspectives, and the Washington Post. See his publications (below) for more information.
- PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2022
Twentieth Century United States, Post-1945 Social and Intellectual Movements, and the Black Intellectual Tradition
"Welcome to East Austin: Black Power and the American Dream," Black Perspectives, January 23, 2023
"Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the History of Colorblind Admissions," Black Perspectives, November 4, 2022
"We Want a Quota!: Black Student Enrollment at the University of Texas at Austin, 1969-78," The Journal of Civil and Human Rights 8:1 (Spring/Summer 2022)
"The racial inequality embedded in one of the country's liberal cities," Washington Post, September 27, 2021.
HIST 1700 -- American History
HIST 4690 -- African American History, 1619-1890
HIST 4700 -- African American History Since 1890