As the Director of Teacher Education for the History Department, Dr. Colbert-Lewis holds a joint appointment as an assistant professor in the both the College of Liberal Arts and for the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the H.M. Michaux, Jr. School of Education. Moreover, he has the responsibility of guiding history majors to successful secondary teacher certification, and to teach various history courses and various courses in social studies teaching methodology. Since his... (read more)


Matthew A. Cook was born in New York City. He moved from there at age six and subsequently lived in West Berlin, Spain, Tanzania, Israel and Lesotho. He has also lived in California, Texas and New York. He currently lives in Durham, NC.








After earning a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in accounting at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Gershenhorn earned graduate degrees in history, an M.A. from North Carolina Central University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests are American history, African American history, American Intellectual history, and North Carolina history. In 2004, he published Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge... (read more)




















Joshua Nadel is assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history and associate director of the Global Studies Program at North Carolina Central University. His research focuses on transnational phenomenon that lead to cultural adaptation. Currently, he is working on projects on: company towns in pre-Castro Cuba, soccer, food, and early transnational corporations. He is under contract with the University Press of Florida for a book, tentatively entitled Fútbol!: the Place of Soccer... (read more)


Dr. Freddie L. Parker
Dr. Freddie Parker was born and reared in Hillsborough, North Carolina
He received the B.A. in History from North Carolina Central University in 1975, the M.A. in History from NCCU in 1977 and the Ph.D. in American History from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1987.
He is currently Professor of History at North Carolina Central University. He is the author of the books, Running for Freedom: Slave Runaways in NC, 1775-1840 and
Stealing a Little Freedom:... (read more)