Global Black Thought: A New Academic Journal
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are pleased to share this new initiative, a journal entitled, Global Black Thought. It is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Details are below.
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The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is excited to announce the launch of GLOBAL BLACK THOUGHT, a new academic journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press!
GLOBAL BLACK THOUGHT, the official journal of AAIHS, is devoted to the study of the Black intellectual tradition. The journal publishes original, innovative, and thoroughly researched essays on Black ideas, theories, and intellectuals in the United States and throughout the African diaspora. GLOBAL BLACK THOUGHT will feature historically based contributions by authors in diverse fields of study throughout the humanities and social sciences.
While steeped in historical methodologies, GLOBAL
BLACK THOUGHT is an interdisciplinary journal informed by scholarship in Africana studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory. The journal welcomes submissions that feature original research and innovative methods. We also extend an invitation to scholars working outside the United States.
Editor-in-Chief
Keisha N. Blain, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and Class of 2022 Carnegie Fellow, is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests and specializations in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She completed a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and is now a Full Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University and a columnist for MSNBC.
Managing Editor
Robert Greene II is an assistant professor of history in the Department of Humanities at Claflin University and the current president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). He serves as book reviews editor and blogger for the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians as well as Chief Instructor for the South Carolina Progressive Network’s Modjeska Simkins School of Human Rights.
Associate Editors
Leslie Alexander is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is a specialist in early African American and African Diaspora history, focusing on late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Black culture, political consciousness, and resistance movements. Her first book, African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 (University of Illinois Press, 2008), explores Black culture, identity, and political activism during the early national and antebellum eras.
Kabria Baumgartner is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States, specializing in the history of education, African American women’s and gender history, and New England studies. She is the author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America, which tells the story of Black girls and women who fought for their educational rights in the nineteenth-century United States.
Reighan Gillam is an ethnographer of Black visual culture. She is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research examines media at the intersection of racial ideologies, anti-racism, and protest.
Tiffany N. Florvil is an associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She is a 20th century cultural historian of Germany whose work focuses on African/Black diasporic communities, internationalism, race, gender, and sexuality.
Benjamin Talton is the Director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and Professor in the Department of History at Howard University. He is an historian who researches and writes about culture and politics in Africa and the African diaspora. Book Review Editor
Bright Gyamfi is an assistant professor of history at the University of California San Diego and a former Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University. His research sits at the intersection of West African and African Diaspora intellectual history, nationalism, gender, Pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, and economic development. Editorial Assistant
Ashley Everson is a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Brown University. Ashley earned her B.A. with honors distinction in Social Thought and Political Economy and her M.A. in Political Science with a graduate certificate in African Diaspora Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.