ABOUT PROFESSOR KATHERINE BANKOLE-MEDINA

Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina is a tenured full Professor of History and established scholar of Africana Studies at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of several publications notably: Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medicine in Antebellum Louisiana, and World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism and History. Her recent publications include a review of Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State by Edward Onaci which appears in the Journal of Southern History; and the academic paper “A Real-World Discourse on Intellectual Identity, Thought Leadership, and the Black Woman Academic Chair,” edited by Stephanie Y. Evans and appears in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.

Among her numerous honors, Dr. Bankole-Medina was twice listed among The Dominion Post’s “Most Influential” people. She was recognized as a Distinguished Faculty Researcher at CSU; and is regarded as an exceptional online learning professor.

Dr. Bankole-Medina is also host of The Invention of Racism podcast series which explores current and historical events and issues of race, racism and racial justice.

With generous fellowship support from the UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities, she is currently working on a manuscript examining medical racism and the African American experience in early twentieth century Maryland.

Dr. Bankole-Medina holds a B.A. in History from Howard University. She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University; and completed a post-graduate certificate in online teaching and learning from the On-Line Learning Consortium (OLC). .