ADMINISTRATION

Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina has served as Chair of the Department of History, Geography and Global Studies at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland.  As a tenured Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, she held multiple appointments as Director of the Center for Black Culture and Research and Coordinator of the Africana Studies Program.

In addition, Dr. Bankole-Medina has been employed as a faculty member/administrator at several research-oriented institutions including: Xavier University of Louisiana (Department of History, New Orleans, LA), the University of Virginia (Luther Porter Jackson Black Culture Center, Charlottesville, VA), and Kean University (Africana Studies Program, Human Relations Center, Union, NJ).

Research and SCHOLARship

Dr. Bankole-Medina’s research and scholarship areas in the discipline of history include: nineteenth and twentieth century African American history (including the history of slavery and science (medicine); the history of Black women in the United States); African Americans and essential race, gender, culture and identity studies; and critical epistemological and theoretical constructs in the disciplines of History, African American Studies, and Africology.

Dr. Bankole-Medina is the author of many scholarly publications including the ground-breaking Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana. She also produced one of the first books published on the Baltimore uprising: World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism and History, which won the DISA Award for Intellectual Initiative and Academic Action in 2017.

INSTRUCTION

Katherine Bankole-Medina teaches dynamic traditional face-to-face and online learning courses. She instructs popular courses in: African American history to and since 1865, United States History to and since 1865, World History to and since 1500, African American women’s history, and Methods of Historical Research.  Her upper-level and graduate courses in history and African American studies include: African American Cultural and Intellectual History, Black Lives Matter: Historical Perspectives on Race, Policing, and Protest, Great Books: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, History of African Americans in the Cities, History of Black Nationalism in the United States, History of the Black Power Movement, History of Enslavement in the United States, History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, History of Louisiana, History of Maryland, History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Introduction to Africana Studies, Introduction to Latin American History, Introduction to Middle Eastern History, Problems in American History I and II, Seminars in: African History, American History, Race Relations, Afro-American History Honors, and Teaching African American History. In the Fall 2021 semester Dr. Bankole-Medina taught the first known university course on the life and work of pioneering African American educator Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837-1913).

MEDIA