Commemorating John Hope Franklin: African American History and the World
Monday February 28, 2022
2:15-3:30 p.m.
This keynote panel will focus on the international scope of the life and legacy of John Hope Franklin, a pioneering scholar of the African diaspora and civil rights leader, who served as chair of Brooklyn College’s history department in the 1950s.
More Information
For more information, please contact Professor Philip Napoli, Chair, History Department at PNapoli@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
Speaker Bios
John Whittington Franklin
John Whittington Franklin is Managing Member of Franklin Global LLC and Senior Manager Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has organized a range of conferences on African diasporic topics, and co-edited, with his father, John Hope Franklin, My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin.
Nishani Frazier
Nishani Frazier is an Associate Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas. She served formerly as Associate Curator of African American History and Archives at Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) and as personal assistant for John Hope Franklin, before and during his tenure as chair of President Bill Clinton's advisory board on "One America." She is the author of Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland, Ohio and the Rise of Black Power Populism (University of Arkansas Press, 2017)
Gunja SenGupta
Moderated by History professor Gunja SenGupta, author, most recently, of the forthcoming Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire (University of California Press).
