Anthony Pratcher II is an historian from the Salt River Valley. He currently teaches in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. His previous appointments were in the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University, Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, and at the Center for the Study of Race + Ethnicity in America at Brown University. While his public scholarship explores space and race in the American Southwest, he has co-edited a textbook on planning history, Planning Future Cities (Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 2017), with Walter Greason, and is currently completing a new manuscript, Searching for my People: Black Arizonans and the Making of the Metropolitan Southwest, under contract with University of Arizona Press. His work has been published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography and History, Southern California Quarterly and Technology and Culture. He earned a Ph. D. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and received a B.A. in History from Howard University. He serves as financial secretary for the Black Family Genealogy and History Society in Phoenix, Arizona and is a proud graduate of Deer Valley High School in Glendale, Arizona.
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Anthony Pratcher II, Ph. D. 