Stephen A. Berrey
Post-Show Facilitator

Stephen A. Berrey is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of American Culture and History at the University of Michigan. He is the Chair of the James W. Loewen Foundation, and the Director of the Sundown Towns Project and website, a public engagement initiative begun by James W. Loewen to document places that have intentionally excluded some racial groups.

He is the author of The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi (2015). He is the co-author of Black Song: A Manifesto for Music and Justice, a collaboration with music scholars and performers, coming out in fall 2026. He is continuing to research the history of sundown towns, and conducting research on the history of Jim Crow in small-town America.