Cary Wintz

Cary DeCordova Wintz, professor of history and chair of the Department of History, Geography and Economics at Texas Southern University, received his Ph.D. in history from Kansas State University. He teaches courses in Texas, Mexican American and African American history and is the author or coauthor of several books, including Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance. Wintz is also the editor of a number of works, including Black Dixie: Essays on Afro-Texas History and Culture in Houston and the seven-volume The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940: Interpretation of an African American Literary Movement. He is the recipient of five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has traveled abroad on a Fulbright grant and on fellowships from the Korea Society and the Mobil foundation.