Mark Christian

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Research Interests

  • African & African American Studies

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  • Lehman College

Dr. Mark Christian is a tenured and full Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY). He joined CUNY in August 2011 from Miami University of Ohio after 11 years’ service. Dr. Christian received his B.A. (Honors) in Sociology & American Studies from Liverpool Hope University, UK; his M.A. in Africana/Black Studies from The Ohio State University; and his Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Sheffield, UK. He was a senior Fulbright Scholar with the Department of Pan African Studies at Kent State University (1997-1998); and a research fellow at the University of London's Commonwealth Institute. He was a board member of the National Council for Black Studies (2006-2008), He is the author of Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective (Palgrave, 2000), the editor of Black Identity in the 20th Century: Expressions of the US and UK African Diaspora (London: Hansib, 2002), and two other edited books. He has been a guest editor with three special issue journals in Africana Studies (2006, 2008, and 2010). Dr. Christian has been the book review editor for the Journal of African American Studies (2007-2014); has been a long-serving reviewer for CHOICE - who review books for the entire US library system. Dr. Christian’s award-winning book concerns the issue of Black faculty in majority white university and college settings. It is an edited volume titled: Integrated but Unequal: Black Faculty in Predominately White Space (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2012). His recent books are: Booker T. Washington: A Life in American History (ABC-CLIO, 2021), for which he gained a 2022 RUSA Award from the American Library Association for “Outstanding Reference for Adults”; and The 20th Century Civil Rights Movement: An Africana Studies Perspective (Kendall Hunt, 2021). Finally, his latest book is titled: Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic (Lexington/R&L, 2022).

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  • Lehman College

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