Notable People
Program Director, Ethnic Studies & Associate
Professor, History Martin Summers received his Ph. D. in U.S. History from Rutgers University in 1997. He joined the History Department at the University of Oregon in the fall of 2000. Professor Summers teaches courses in African American history, history of gender, race, and sexuality in the U.S., and twentieth-century U.S. history. His publications include Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); "Diasporic Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transnational Production of Black Middle Class Masculinity," Gender and History (November 2003); and '"This Immoral Practice": The Prehistory of Homophobia in Black Nationalist Thought,' in Toni Lester, ed., Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002). Summers is undertaking a new research project on race and mental illness in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S.
Historian, Author of “Forgotten
Oregon Ducks” Herman L. Brame was born in Portland, Oregon on May 16, 1945, and attended Jefferson High School where he participated in cross-country, wrestling and track. Although he did not compete in high school sports his senior year he resumed his athletic career with the University of Oregon track team in 1964. While at Oregon he was the school's leading long jump/triple jump performer. He set the school record in the triple Jump at 48 ft. 4 3/4 inc., won the long jump in the Bob Woodell Invitational Meet which was the first of the great University of Oregon Twilight Meets, placed second in the Northern Division Championships triple jump, placed 5th in the PAC-8 Conference meet in the long jump,placed 10th in the NCAA Championship triple jump, and in 1966 was the third leading scorer on the team. Brame was injured his senior year and missed all but the first meet of the season. After college, while in his forties, he participated in Masters Track & Field winning the State Games of Oregon Triple Jump and attaining Masters All-American honors. Currently, Brame works for Multnomah County in Portland as a compliance specialist.
University of Oregon Archivist
Emeritus Richard was part of the University almost all of his adult life. He began his journey here in 1953 as an undergraduate in history. But that only lasted for one term. "I dropped out because of finances and because I was forced to join the ROTC." He then moved on to graduated from Western Oregon State College in 1957. But he came back to the University in 1960 to obtain his master's degree in library science and history. Keith decided he could not get enough of history or of the University. "I had been a fan of history since grade school; I found it fascinating," Richard said. So he came back to the University as its archivist in 1972, where he would dive into the archives and indulge himself in everything that created and was a part of the University. "When I came here, the archives were badly started." Richard said. "I wanted the University to learn that they had an archive, that they could make use of it, and as an archivist I would be there to help.... I only wish I could have gotten to it all." Richard retired from his post in
1996 and now serves as the Universities’ Archivist Emeritus.
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MARTIN SUMMERS
Herman L. Brame
K. Keith Richard
