Cha jua sundiata keita biography

Dr. Sundiata Cha-Jua,
Assoc Prof of History, Assoc Prof of African
American Studies – University of Illinois
Center for Global Studies; and
Immediate-Past President, National Council for Black Studies

Dr. Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, from which he earned a Ph.D. in 1993, and in African American Studies. He previously taught in the History department and directed the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and taught history at Pennsylvania State University and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Dr. Cha-Jua received Advanced Certificates in Black Studies from Northeastern University in 1992 and from the National Council for Black Studies, Director’s Institute in 1992.

Dr. Cha-Jua’s research agenda consists of explorations of  Black racial formation and transformation theory, Urban histories/community studies, Radical Black Intellectual Traditions, and  culturally relevant p Sundiata keita!