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Manning Marable
M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies
Columbia University
History, International and Public Affairs, Political Science |
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Biography
Dr. Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City. For ten years, Dr. Marable was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, from 1993 to 2003. Under Dr. Marable’s leadership, the Institute became one of the nation’s most prestigious centers of scholarship on black American experience.
Born in 1950, Dr. Marable received his A.B. degree from Earlham College in 1971, his M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972 and his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maryland in 1976. Before coming to Columbia, Dr. Marable was previously Senior Research Associate of Africana Studies at Cornell University (1980-1982); Professor of History and Economics, and Director of the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University (1982-1983); Professor of Sociology and the founding director of Colgate University’s Africana and Latin American Studies Program (1983-1986); Chair of the Black Studies Department at Ohio State University (1987-1989); and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder (1989-1993).
Dr. Marable is a prolific author. Since earning his Ph.D. nearly three decades ago, he has written over 275 articles in academic journals and edited volumes. He has written and/or edited nearly twenty books and scholarly anthologies including: The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (New York: Basic Books, 2003); general editor, Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003); co-author, with Leith Mullings, Freedom (London: Phaidon, 2002); co-editor, with Leith Mullings, Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African-American Anthology, (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); editor, Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Black Leadership (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); Black Liberation in Conservative America (Boston: South End Press, 1997); Speaking Truth to Power (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996); Beyond Black and White (London: Verso, 1995); Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991); W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986); Black American Politics (London: Verso, 1985); How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Boston: South End Press, 1983). His current books-in-progress include: Living Black History (New York: Basic Books, 2005); co-author, with Myrtle Evers-Williams, Medgar Evers: In His Own Voice (New York: Basic Books, 2005); and a comprehensive biography of the African-American leader Malcolm X, tentatively titled, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
Professor Marable is a national leader in the development of web-based, educational resources on the African-American experience. With Columbia’s Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, he has directed the production of: two E-courses on W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X, respectively; a multimedia version of Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, in 2001; and a massive, multimedia version of the Autobiography of Malcolm X, featuring 440 historical annotations, 78 separate newsreel and film clip footage of Malcolm X, 216 photographs, over 200 government documents and original oral history interviews with Malcolm X’s friends and associates.
In 2002, Dr. Marable established the Center for Contemporary Black History (CCBH) at Columbia University, an advanced research and publications center that examines black leadership and politics, culture and society. CCBH produces Souls, a quarterly academic journal of African-American Studies, which is published and distributed internationally by Taylor and Francis Publishers. With the support of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), CCBH’s Africana Criminal Justice Project has: conducted a national survey of Black Studies departments to promote the development of new courses on race, crime and justice; compiled hundreds of original texts in an African-American archive examining “the meaning of justice” throughout black history; and taught courses on hip-hop culture and critical criminology inside Riker’s Island Correctional Facility in New York City. CCBH also directs the digital knowledge production of Black Studies educational resources.
Since 1976, Dr. Marable has written a political commentary series, “Along the Color Line,” that appears in over four hundred newspapers and journals worldwide. He is regularly featured in national; and international media. He donates much of his time fundraising and speaking on behalf of prisoners’ rights, labor, civil rights, faith-based institutions, and other social justice organizations. Dr. Marable lectures frequently in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, in a Master’s Degree Program for prisoners.
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