W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Africana Studies
Department and Program Affiliations:
Africana Studies & Research Center
Academic focus:
African American history
Current research project:
St. Clair Drake and the intellectual history of Africana Studies
Previous positions:
Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 2010-2015
Director, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 2005-2010
Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 2005- 2010
Associate professor, Department of History and The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 1999- 2005
Associate professor, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, 1996-1999
Assistant professor, Departments of History and African American Studies, Princeton University, 1991-1996
Academic background:
Ph.D., American Civilization, Brown University, 1991
M.A., Government, Brown University, 1987
B.A., American studies, Harvard University, 1982
Last book read:
"Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African-American Public Opinion" by Melanye Price
In your own time/when not working:
Listening to/playing music
Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching:
Post-Reconstruction African American intellectual and social thought; the intersection of African American literature and social science; the Music of the Civil Rights/Black Power era
What most excites you about Cornell:
Teaching graduate students; the vibrant intellectual community in my fields of interest.