President of the Other America:
Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty
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About Ed
Ed Schmitt is an associate professor of history at UW-Parkside. A Wisconsin native, he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Marquette University in 2003. His research interests include politics in American history since 1945, poverty in American history, and the intersections of race, religion, and political life. He teaches courses on twentieth century America, African-American history, race & ethnicity, poverty, and religion in American history.
His book President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty is currently available from the University of Massachusetts Press, and an article on RFK and Appalachia is forthcoming in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.
He has also published an article on Catholic interracial activist Anna McGarry in U.S. Catholic Historian. His current research projects focus on early twentieth century politician and antilynching advocate Leonidas Dyer, and civil rights activist Dick Gregory.
Away from school Ed enjoys spending time with family, running, and collecting music and films - sometimes the odder the better - from the 1940s through the 1970s (excerpts from which sometimes mysteriously show up in my courses).