Michael West
African American and African Diaspora History and Culture
Professional Bio
Professor West has a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Lake Forest College and a doctoral degree 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 1960s in international perspective, including a book manuscript entitled Kwame Nkrumah and Global Black Power Movement.
