Rate My Professor Robert Bauman

Robert Bauman is a Professor of History in the Department of History at Washington State University Tri-Cities, where he joined the faculty in 1997. He currently serves as Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and Academic Director of Arts and Sciences. Bauman earned his B.A. in History from Biola University in 1986, M.A. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1989, and Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998. His research interests center on 20th century U.S. history, social policy, religion, and race in the American West.

Bauman is an award-winning scholar who received the Washington State Historical Society Charles Gates Award for the best article published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2005 for “Jim Crow in the Tri-Cities, 1943-1950” and the WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Excellence Award in 2022. His major publications include Fighting to Preserve a Nation’s Soul: America’s Ecumenical War on Poverty (University of Georgia Press, 2019), Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs and Richland to 1943 (co-edited with Robert Franklin, WSU Press, 2018), and Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region (co-edited with Robert Franklin, WSU Press, 2020). He served on the Pacific Historical Review Editorial Board from 2015 to 2019, the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Committee from 2016 to 2017, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Review Panel for Digital Projects for the Public in 2015. Bauman has delivered invited presentations on the War on Poverty at Dartmouth College, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Western History Association, American Society of Church History, and National Council on Public History.