Dr. Paul Alkebulan
Assistant Professor of History
Colson 101G
email: palkebul@vsu.edu
Education
Ph. D. History, University of California, Berkeley, May 24, 2003
Dissertation: The role of ideology in the establishment, growth, and decline of the
Black Panther Party
MA History, California State University, Hayward, August 30, 1991
BA Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley, August 18, 1978
Research Areas
African American History, Diaspora Studies, Twentieth Century US History
Courses Taught
US History to 1865 (lower division survey course)
US History: 1865 to the present (lower division survey course)
US History: Black Protest in the 20th century
US History: the New Deal to Now (upper division course)
US History: Senior Seminar
African-American History: The history of the black religious experience (upper division and graduate research seminar)
African-American History: 1619 to the present
Selected Publications
Books:
Alkebulan, Paul. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. The University of Alabama Press, August 2007.
Book Reviews:
Alkebulan, Paul, Review of In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement Edited by Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006). The Historian (February 2008)
Articles:
Alkebulan, Paul. "July 23, 1977-March 15, 1978: The Ogaden War between Ethiopia and Somalia", in Great Events in the Twentieth Century, 1971-2000 (Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2007).
Alkebulan, Paul. "Carl Hampton", in African American National Biography (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard and Oxford University Press, 2008).
Alkebulan, Paul. The Black Panthers, in The Seventies in America (Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2005) 121-123.
Alkebulan, Paul. "Sam Cooke" in The Fifties in America (Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2005) 241-243.
Published chapter in a book:
Alkebulan, Paul. Motherland, in Yoshiaki Sato & Motoyuki Shibati, (Eds.)
The Parallel Universe of English) (pp.32-40). Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 1996.
Alkebulan, Paul & Yoshisaki Sato. After the Explosion, in Yoshiaki Sato
(Ed.) Malcolm X World (pp. 156-168). Tokyo, Japan: Komichi-Shobo, 1993.
Grants & awards
- Mellon Foundation Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship, 2000-2001, UC-Berkeley
- Taussig Memorial Fellowship, 2000-2001, UC-Berkeley
- Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship, 1999-2001, UC-Berkeley
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 2000-2001, UC-Berkeley
- Louise Patterson Award for Academic Excellence, 1999-2000, UC-Berkeley
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