Paul Lawrie

Paul Lawrie is an Associate Professor of History (York University) whose research on modern Afro-America examines the intersections of race, labor, disability, urbanism, and time in modern America. He is the author of Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination (NYU Press 2016) https://nyupress.org/author/paul-r-d-lawrie/He has published in The Oxford Handbook of Disability History,https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/51063,  Truth in the Public Sphere, Disability Histories and the Canadian Review of American Studies. His current SSHRC funded project, The Color of Hours: Race, Time and the Making of Urban America traces how time -as both lived experience and a category of analysis- mediated racial difference and identity in the 20th century American city from the time-work management of the factory floor to the vagrancy statues of the streets and the watch/clock making industry.