christopher fisher, ph.d.

Dr. Christopher Fisher is an Assistant Professor in the African-American and History departments at the College of New Jersey in Ewing , NJ . At the College he teaches various classes on topics in the twentieth century, American diplomatic and African-American history.

He received his doctorate from Rutgers University ’s History Department in October 2001. His dissertation, entitled The Hopes of Man, focused on race and modernization theory during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Dr. Fisher has taught extensively throughout New Jersey and delivered papers on topics that range from the creation of the national security state in the Truman administration to the relationship between black power and modernization sensibility in the 1960s.

His recent scholars has focused on the life of James Baldwin, R. Sargent Shriver, American history during the Cold War, and the intersection between pacification programs and modernization theory during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. He earned a BA in History and Political Science from Rutgers College in 1993 and graduated from Long Branch High school in 1989