Matthew Sherman is a faculty member in the Department of History at North Carolina Central University. He earned his B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his M.A. in History from North Carolina Central University, and his Ph.D. in History from the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Dr. Sherman specializes in modern European and British history, with a focus on twentieth-century race relations in Britain and its empire. His interest in immigration, diaspora, and the end of empire developed during his master’s studies at NCCU, where his thesis explored Caribbean immigration to Britain in the mid-twentieth century through immigrant literature and music. His doctoral dissertation, White Blinders: A Study of Race Relations Theory in Britain, 1948–1988, examines the intellectual history of race relations as an academic field, tracing its emergence from imperial social anthropology and sociology in mid-twentieth-century Britain.