Paul Ortiz
Office: 210 Keene-Flint Hall & 241 Pugh Hall
Phone: 352-392-7168
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: portiz@ufl.edu
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Associate Professor Paul Ortiz received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2000 and his B.A. from The Evergreen State College in 1990. He joined the University of Florida Department of History in 2008 after teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
His book Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History
of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction
to the Bloody Election of 1920
received the
Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize from the Florida Historical
Society and the Florida Institute of Technology. He also co-edited and
conducted oral history interviews for the award-winning, Remembering
Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Jim Crow South.
Professor Ortiz has published and taught in the fields of African American history, Latino Studies, the African Diaspora, Social Movement Theory, U.S. History, U.S. South, labor, and documentary studies. He currently works with students in these and related fields.
He is currently finishing a book titled: “Our Separate Struggles Are Really One’: African American and Latino Histories” which will be part of Beacon Press’s new “ReVisioning American History series, and he is also working on a manuscript titled: C.L.R. James, Caribbean Radicalism, and the Rise of the Modern Anti-Colonial Movement.”
Professor Ortiz is also the Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
