Associate Professor (Washington State University)

Clif Stratton joined Washington State University in 2010 after completing a Ph.D. in History at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where he was born and raised. In both his teaching and research, Clif is centrally interested in how race and racism have shaped the world we inhabit, including how it intersects with things ranging from education, environmental change, global politics, and popular culture. He is also committed to ensuring that every student that he teaches (and a lot of students that he doesn’t teach) have a transformative learning experience at WSU. His teaching is guided by principles of equity, belonging, and curiosity. Learning and engagement are the two requirements for every student in my courses.

Clif's latest project is Race and the Atlanta Braves from Summerhill to Cobb County, will offer a historical analysis of the consequences of the arrival and departure of the Braves baseball franchise to and from its downtown Atlanta site from the late Civil Rights era to the present. Read a recent publication from this broader project at Atlanta Studies.

When Clif is not on campus working with colleagues and students, he can be found spinning all kinds of musical genres on vinyl; reading nonfiction (he is slowly coming around to fiction); hitting the road with his family for skiing, camping, hiking, paddle boarding, and other outdoor romps; and fastidiously – and sometimes insufferably – following the 2021 World Series Champion Atlanta Braves baseball exploits.