User:Dave Golland

Dave Golland is the user name of Dr. David Hamilton Golland, an American historian residing in Brooklyn, New York, and Park Forest, Illinois. The author of Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011), he is Assistant Professor of History at Governors State University.

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Biography

Golland was born in 1971 at Doctors Hospital in New York City and raised on Union Square in the borough of Manhattan. He attended P.S. 234, I.S. 70, LaGuardia High School, and Baruch College. He served in the United States Army during the Gulf War and was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and in Heilbronn, Germany. He took his master's degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and his PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Teaching

Golland has taught European, American, and Labor history, Black Studies, geography, and literature at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, The City College, the College of Staten Island, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Bronx Community College, and the Cooper Union. He has also taught Special Ed as a Teaching Assistant and as a long-term sub in the Albemarle County Public School District in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2011 he was appointed a tenure-track assistant professor at Governors State University outside Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches United States, European, and Latin American history.

Publications

In addition to his book Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity, part of the Civil Rights series at the University Press of Kentucky, which was published in 2011, Golland has been published in the Claremont Journal of Religion, Labor History, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, H-Net, and BlackPast.org. He is currently working on a book project on Arthur Fletcher.

Organizations

Golland is the president of his family-circle organization, the David Golland Memorial Association (DGMA), which was founded in 1943 in honor of his great-grandfather and owns a family plot at New Montefiore Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York. He is also involved at the Park Slope Food Coop as a co-chair of the General Meeting.

Wikipedia pages

Brooklyn neigborhoods and related

• Bath Beach, Brooklyn (full rewrite)
• Gravesend, Brooklyn
• Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
• Coney Island Creek (full rewrite)
• Belt Parkway

Equal employment opportunity

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Maurice Davis (rabbi)
• Revised Philadelphia Plan
• Robert C. Weaver

Miscellaneous

• Journey (band) (full rewrite)
• CUNY Graduate Center (rewrite)
• Park Slope Food Coop (full rewrite)

More information

• David Hamilton Golland, Ph.D.
• Journey Zone Staff Profile