JAMES T. CAMPBELL
(Ph.D. in History, Stanford University, 1989) is Associate Professor
of Africana Studies and American Civilization.
He is a specialist in U.S. History, Twentieth-Century African
American History, and African History.
He is author of Songs
of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
States and South Africa (Oxford UP, 1995/University of North
Carolina Press, 1998), which won the Organization of American
Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Prize and the Carl Sandburg
Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in such
journals as The Journal
of Southern African Studies, Transformations,
The Journal of African
History, Dissent,
African Studies, The
American Historical Review, and the
Encyclopaedia Britannica Macropedia.
Campbell has been a Research Associate at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center
for Pan-African Studies, Accra, Ghana, and at the African Studies
Institute, the University of the Witwatersrand.
His awards include the Fulbright Fellowship, the Social
Science Research Council Fellowship, the Rotary foundation Graduate
travel Fellowship. Campbell
formerly taught History at Northwestern University, where he was
on the Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching.
Campbell teaches courses at Brown on twentieth-century
African American History, W.E.B. Du Bois, the Harlem Renaissance,
and Black identiy in America.
