Location:
African American Studies
, professor (joint with
Political Science and DIPA), has served since 2002 as the director of
the Center for Contemporary Black History. Dr. Marable earned his A.B.
from
Earlham
College
(1971), M.A. from the
University
of
Wisconsin
(1972), and Ph.D. in from the
University
of
Maryland
(1976). He has authored and edited 25 books, including:
Race, Reform and Rebellion 3rd rev. ed., 2007);
Living Black History (2006);
Freedom On My Mind: The Columbia Reader of African-American History (2003);
Great Wells of Democracy (2002);
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower (2002);
Black Leadership (1998); and
Beyond Black and White
(1995). He has written over 275 articles for academic journals, edited
volumes and anthologies. His current projects include: a major
reinterpretation of the life of Malcolm X, to be published in 2010 with
Viking Press; and the Ford Foundation-supported “Amistad Project,” a
multimedia resource project at
Columbia
designed to enhance the teaching of African American history in public schools.
