Early Life and Education
Roediger was born in 1952 in Columbia, Illinois. He received a bachelor of science degree in education from Northern Illinois University in 1975, and a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University in 1980, where he wrote a dissertation under the direction of George M. Fredrickson
He was assistant editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University from 1979 to 1980.
After receipt of his doctorate, Roediger was a lecturer and assistant professor of history at Northwestern University from 1980 to 1985. He then served as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri in 1985, rising to full professor in 1992. He moved to the University of Minnesota in 1995, and was chair of the university's American Studies Program from 1996 to 2000.
In 2000, he was appointed professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Roediger has also served as the director for the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at UIUC.
Roediger is a member of the board of directors of the Charles H Kerr Company Publishers, a position he has held since 1992.
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