Lisa Brock
Liberal Education Chairperson
Ph. D. history
Email 312-344-7844
Lisa Brock, Ph.D. is a professor of African history and Diaspora studies at Columbia College Chicago. Her articles on South Africa, Mozambique, African-Americans, Cuba and Blacks in the Diaspora have appeared in such journals as Cuban Studies, Contributions in Black Studies, Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Souls, Peace Review, and Temas: Cultura, Ideologicía, Sociedad and in book collections such as Africa’s Media Image. Her book, Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution (Temple University Press), was published in 1998 and her writings are regularly a part of the website: AfroCubaweb. She has served on the planning committees of the African Studies Association, given papers at the Latin American Studies Association, American Historical Association, the National Association of Black Journalist (and many others) and is on the Editorial Collective of the Radical History Review. She sees herself as operating in an interdisciplinary arena and has given lectures and served as visiting professor at numerous institutions such as the University of New Mexico, Clemson, Columbia University and many many others.
Ph. D. history
Email 312-344-7844
Lisa Brock, Ph.D. is a professor of African history and Diaspora studies at Columbia College Chicago. Her articles on South Africa, Mozambique, African-Americans, Cuba and Blacks in the Diaspora have appeared in such journals as Cuban Studies, Contributions in Black Studies, Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Souls, Peace Review, and Temas: Cultura, Ideologicía, Sociedad and in book collections such as Africa’s Media Image. Her book, Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution (Temple University Press), was published in 1998 and her writings are regularly a part of the website: AfroCubaweb. She has served on the planning committees of the African Studies Association, given papers at the Latin American Studies Association, American Historical Association, the National Association of Black Journalist (and many others) and is on the Editorial Collective of the Radical History Review. She sees herself as operating in an interdisciplinary arena and has given lectures and served as visiting professor at numerous institutions such as the University of New Mexico, Clemson, Columbia University and many many others.
Since the early 1990s, Brock has been researching and writing on African-American and Cuban relations. She has joined a host of other intellectuals and scholars, who while trained in African, African-American, Caribbean or Latin-American areas, has shifted their focus into the broader and more internationalists "Black Atlantic" or African Diaspora Studies. This field is exploding and Brock sees herself as a part of this movement. She speaks often on her work and is working now on a second book entitled: Black in Two Americas: Comparative Identity, History and Struggle in Cuba and in the United States. As an historian and activist, Brock views history as a way to enter contemporary discussions.