African Americans in Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives

About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Josephine A. V. Allen is professor of social policy and welfare, Binghamton University, and professor emerita of policy, analysis, and management, Cornell University. She helped create the Cornell Black Professional Women’s Forum, which has lobbied for the recruitment, retention, and advancement of black women faculty and staff at Cornell. The Forum’s collaboration with the National Science Foundation-funded CU-ADVANCE Center has helped to increase the number of women faculty in engineering and science. Allen holds the distinction of being the first African American woman to receive tenure at Cornell. Michael L. Clemons is associate professor of political science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from Atlanta University, specializing in American politics and international affairs with an emphasis on the domestic and global political behavior of African Americans. In 2003, Clemons founded the Journal of Race and Policy, and became its first editor. He also served as the director of Old Dominion ’s Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and as founding director of its bachelor’s degree program in African American and African Studies. He is currently completing his next book, which focuses on the purpose, nature, and logic of African American global participation. Sekou Franklin is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). He specializes in African American politics, civil rights policy, social movements, and municipal politics, and coordinates the Urban Studies Program at MTSU. He has published articles and book chapters on race and politics, juvenile justice, and social movements, and is currently working on a book analyzing intergenerational politics and social movement activism among the post-civil rights generation. He has also been an active member of several grassroots and antipoverty organizations, including the Ad Hoc Committee for Equity in Nashville-Davidson County, the National Poverty Engine, and the Tennessee Alliance for Progress. Robeson Taj P . Frazier is assistant professor of communications at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California (USC). Before coming to USC, Frazier taught courses at New York University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and City University of New York. He obtained his doctorate in African Diaspora studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include exploring issues pertaining to race and ethnicity, comparative political economy, popular culture, sport, globalization, and transnationalism and internationalism. His work has been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Black Arts Quarterly. Supad Kumar Ghose is a doctoral student in the Department of History at Georgia State University, Atlanta. He previously taught at Bangladesh Public Administration Training In- 365 About the Contributors 366 stitute (BPATI), Virginia Commonwealth University, and Old Dominion University. While at Old Dominion, he served as a graduate research assistant in the Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. As a scholar of the Swedish Institute, he studied at the University of Stockholm. He also studied at Old Dominion University and the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh . His current research explores visions of alternative world order, south-south relations , sociology of strategy and war, and cosmopolitanism. Charles P. Henry is professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994 President Bill Clinton appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities for a six-year term. A former president of the National Council for Black Studies, Henry is the author/editor of seven books and more than eighty articles and reviews on black politics, public policy, and human rights. Before joining the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981, he taught at Denison University and Howard University. He was chair of the board of directors of Amnesty International U.S.A. from 1986 to 1988 and is a former NEH Postdoctoral Fellow and American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow . He was Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History and Politics at the University of Bologna, Italy, for the spring semester of 2003. In the fall of 2006, he was one of the first two Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chairs in France teaching at the University of Tours. He received that university’s Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in April 2008. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Henry’s recent publications include Ralph Bunche: Model Negro or American Other, Foreign Policy and the Black (Inter)national Interest (an edited volume), and Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations...