Michael West
Professor of African American Studies, History, and African Studies
(814) 865-6873
Area(s) of Specialization: African American and African Diaspora History and Culture
Professional Bio
Professor West has a BA in Political Science from Lake Forest College and a PhD in History from Harvard University.
West is the author of The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 (Indiana University Press) and scores of journal articles and book chapters on diverse topics centered on global Africa, as well as coeditor of Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa (University of Illinois Press) and From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution (University of North Carolina Press).
His current research centers on Black Power in the long 1960s in international perspective, including a book manuscript entitled Kwame Nkrumah and Global Black Power Movement.