Malcolm Cammeron is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history. His work is at the intersection of African American, environmental, labor, and urban history in the U.S. South. His book project, The Bulldozer and the Movement: The Southern Freedom Struggle in the Age of Urban Renewal examines how urban development and changes to the built environment after World War II affected protest movements in the urban South.

His research has been supported by the Carter G. Woodson Institute in African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia and the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina.

Cammeron enjoys making history accessible and relevant to public audiences. He has worked closely with organizations of different sizes to preserve and share U.S. history. He has collaborated with cultural organizations like the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium.

Cammeron has also worked with the National Park Service. He contributed to the African American Outdoor Recreation Theme Study which contextualized African Americans’ relationship to outdoor recreation and recommended properties across the U.S. to study for National Historic Landmark status. Cammeron has also supported the National Park Service’s Park History Program as a fellow.

Cammeron received an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. He also received an M.A. in History and B.A. in Marketing from the University of Alabama.

He enjoys running, baking, and spending time with friends, family, and his cat.