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Manning Marable
International Affairs Building, Room 1433
Professor of History and Political Science; Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies; Professor, Department of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-7002
mm247@columbia.edu
Biography:
Manning Marable, a professor of history and political science and director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, specializes in African-American history. He was the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Black History, established in 2002 and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, where he served from 1993 to 2003.
A prolific author, Marable's works include Beyond Black and White: Race in America's Past, Present and Future (Verso 1995), The Crisis of Color and Democracy (Common Courage Press 1995), which was awarded the Book of the Year by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights (1996); The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (Basic Books 2003); Freedom: A Photographic History of the African-American Freedom Struggle, which he coedited with Leith Mullings and Sophie Spencer-Wood (Phaidon 2002); and "9/11: Racism in a Time of Terror," in Souls (Winter 2002).
He received his BA from Earlham and his PhD from University of Maryland. Prior to coming to Columbia, Marable taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Ohio State University, where he was chairman of the Department of Black Studies. He also served as the founding director of the Africana and Hispanic Studies Program at Colgate University.
Research Interests: African American History