Chancellor's Distinguished Speaker Series: Charles E. Jones
Charles E. Jones is a professor in and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He is also the founding Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Political Science at Washington State University. He is a former Congressional Black Caucus Graduate Fellow and a Fulbright Hayes Fellow. He has served two terms as President of the National Council for Black Studies (NCBS). Jones was the principal investigator of a $237,000 grant awarded by the Ford Foundation to NCBS. His teaching and research interests center on African-American Politics and African-American Studies.
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