Dr. Kramer received his PhD from the Department of History at Princeton University in January 1998, and was appointed to the Johns Hopkins History Department the following Fall. With principal interests in the history of race in modern America, transnational history and the history of colonialism, he is currently completing a monograph entitled "The Blood of Government: Race Politics in the American Colonial Philippines 1898- 1924." This work treats the history of highly contested racial ideologies during the U. S.'s colonial regime as a window onto the complex transnational cultural and political dynamics that bound the U. S. and the Philippines in that period. He has presented his research at meetings of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association, and at conferences in Spain, the Philippines and Cuba. He was co-organizer of and keynote speaker at the 1998 Princeton University conference "1898: War, Literature and the Question of Pan-Americanism," and co-organized the interdisciplinary Hopkins conference "Pairing Empires: Britain and the United States, 1857-1947," held in Baltimore in November 2000. He is also founder and director of the Baltimore Civil Rights History Project, an oral history project aimed at documenting Baltimore's history of civil rights activism in the 20th century.