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Title:
Professor, African and Afro-American Studies; Director, Office of Experiential Education in the College of Arts and Sciences
Education:
B.A., M.A., History, Hunter College of the City University of New York; Ph. D., American History, Rutgers University
Teaching Interests: In addition to our department's survey course on the black experience, I have taught the civil rights movement, the Harlem Renaissance, black thought, and black leadership. I am on the faculty advisory board of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and I believe that all undergraduates should have a research experience at least once in their time at Carolina.
Current Research:
My research has focuses on 20th century African American history. I am the author of two biographies: Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual (1993) and White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP (2003), which won honorable mention in the Outstanding Book Awards from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. I have also published several academic articles on topics such as the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement in the 1940s, and African Americans and world affairs.
Curriculum vitae (not currently available)
Email: krjanken@email.unc.edu
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