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CURRICULUM VITAE

2009

AME

TUKUFU ZUBERI

Né Antonio McDaniel Nationality: United States Citizen.

PERMAET ADDRESS

Department of SociologyUniversity of Pennsylvania3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6298Telephone: (215) 573-5169Fax: (215) 573-2081E-mail: tukufu@pop.upenn.eduUniversity Web Page:

http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/faculty/tzuberi.html

Tukufu Zuberi Page:http://tukufuzuberi.com Related Web Pages:http://www.acap.upenn.edu/ http://www.sas.upenn.edu/africana/ http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, a Professor of Sociology, andthe Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at Mekerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He currently directs the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), aninternational collaboration with African nations.An important academic voice in America. His research focuses on Race, African and AfricanDiaspora populations. He developed and expanded the Center for Africana Studies at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. Professor Zuberi holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago,and is the author or editor of several books, articles, essays, and reviews, and has receivednumerous awards for his academic work. He is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture andsociety to the public. He is a regular guest lecturer at colleges and universities across the countryand internationally, and on various television programs. Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie andAnnie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California in the 1970s, heembraced the name Tukufu Zuberi - Swahili for "beyond praise" and "strength." He has said "Itook the name because of a desire to make and have a connection with an important period where people were challenging what it means to be a human being."Dr. Zuberi is the author of

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberiain the ineteenth-Century

, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995; and

Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie

, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2001.He has just completed a manuscript on the history of the Sudan, entitled

Pearls of the AfricanSea: Jenne, Gao, and Timbuktu

. He is the series editor of the "General Demography of Africa" (amulti-volume series). He has written more than 50 scholarly articles and co-edited five volumes.Professor Zuberi has edited or co-edited special issues of the December 2000 Black Scholar on"Transcending Traditions: African, African Diaspora, and African American Studies in the 21stCentury;" the March 2000 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and SocialScience on "The Study of African American Problems: Papers In Honor Of W.E.B. Du Bois," avolume of "Race and Society on Racial Statistics" and a volume of the Journal of Black Studies.He is co-editor of the recently published

The Demography of South Africa,

and

White Logic,White Methods: Racism and Methodology

.Dr. Zuberi is popularly known as a host on the hit Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series theHistory Detectives. Now in its seventh season, History Detectives regularly shows the wayindividual objects can serve as a lens into the past. As a History Detective, Dr. Zuberi is anobserver of the social and cultural forces that shape historical mysteries in America society.

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SUMMARY Page 1COTETS Page 2EDUCATIO Page 3EMPLOYMET Page 3ACADEMIC HOORS Page 3ACADEMIC AWARDS Page 3PUBLICATIOS Page 7CURRET BOOK PROJECTS Page 13RESEARCH REPORTS Page 13SELECTED TELEVISIO APPEARACES Page 14SELECTED COFERECES AD WORKSHOPSORGAIZED Page 24PROFESSIOAL ACTIVITIES Page 26SELECTED PAPERS PRESETED Page 27DISSERTATIOS CHAIRED Page 31PHOTOGRAPH Page 34