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Ophera
Davis
Visiting Assistant Professor
odavis@wellesley.edu
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EMERITUS FACULTY
Anthony Martin - History
Anthony C. Martin, Ph.D
Tony Martin has taught at Wellesley College, Massachusetts since
1973. He was tenured in 1975 and has been a full professor of Africana
Studies since 1979. Prior to coming to Wellesley he taught at the
University of Michigan-Flint, the Cipriani Labour College (Trinidad)
and St. Mary's College (Trinidad). He has been a visiting professor
at the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, Brown University
and The Colorado College. He also spent a year as an honorary research
fellow at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad..
Professor Martin has authored or compiled or edited eleven books,
including Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance,
and the classic study of the Garvey Movement, Race First: the Ideological
and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro
Improvement Association. His most recent book is The Jewish Onslaught:
Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront. Martin qualified as a
barrister-at-law at the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn (London)
in 1965, did a B. Sc. honours degree in economics at the University
of Hull (England) and the M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Michigan State
University.
Martin's articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Negro
History, American Historical Review, African Studies Review, Washington
Post Book World, Journal of Caribbean History, Journal of American
History, Black Books Bulletin, Science and Society, Jamaica Journal
and many other places. His work is to be found in several anthologies
and encyclopedias. He has received a number of academic and community
awards.
Martin is well known as a lecturer in many countries. He has spoken
to university and general audiences all over the United States, Canada,
the Caribbean and England, and also in Africa, Australia, Bermuda
and South America. In 1990 he delivered the annual DuBois/Padmore/Nkrumah
lectures in Ghana.
Professor Martin is currently working on biographies of three Caribbean
women - Amy Ashwood Garvey, Audrey Jeffers and Trinidad's Kathleen
Davis ("Auntie Kay"). He is also nearing completion of a study of
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