Peniel E. Joseph

Peniel E. Joseph
Occupation American Historian
Nationality American

Peniel E. Joseph (born 1973) is an American historian, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. He is the founder of the "Black Power Studies" subfield of American History and American Civil Rights History. He is a frequent commentator on CSPAN, NPR, and PBS's NewsHour. He has also appeared on NBC's Morning Joe, and the Colbert Report. He is the recipient of a number of fellowships, and most recently at the Hutchins Center at the W.E.B. du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University.

Joseph has served on the faculties of the University of Rhode Island, SUNY—Stony Brook, and Brandeis University. In 2009, together with ASU Foundation Professor Matthew C. Whitaker at Arizona State University, Joseph founded the Barack Obama Conference on American Democracy (BOAD), this spring celebrating its fifth year. In the fall of 2013, he founded the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) at Tufts University. Currently, Joseph is the director of the CSRD and a Professor of History at Tufts. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Early years

Joseph was born and raised in New York. His mother, a Haitian immigrant to the United States, was a major influence on his current work. Because of her, Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) and other like leaders were household names during Joseph's upbringing. Also because of her, he was raised speaking and remains fluent in Haitian Creole.

Joseph finished high school at age 16, and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Africana Studies and European History. He received a Ph. D. from Temple University in 2000 with a thesis titled "Waiting 'till the midnight hour : black political and intellectual radicalism, 1960-1975"[1]

Publications

References

  1. WorldCat
  2. 1 2 WorldCat author listing
  3. by Emilye Crosby, The American Historical Review, v112 n5 (20071201): 1575-1576
  4. Felix L Armfield Journal of African American History, v92 n4 (20071001): 574-575
  5. Charles M Payne Contemporary Sociology v37 n2 (20080301): 167-168
  6. Simon Hall, The Journal of American History, v93 n4 (20070301): 1326-1327
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