EMERITUS FACULTY

Anthony C. Martin, Ph.D. (History, 2007)

Tony Martin taught at Wellesley College, Massachusetts since 1973. 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. 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. 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 world. 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 European Jewish immigration into Trinidad in the 1930s.

EMERITA FACULTY

Judith Rollins, Ph.D. (Sociology, 2008)

Judith Rollins began teaching in Africana Studies and Sociology at Wellesley College in 1992. Educated at Howard and Brandeis Universities, she is the author of numerous articles on the social psychology of domination, the ideological role of domestic service, the Civil Rights Movement, the Women's Movement, and Caribbean women. Her recent articles are "And the Last Shall Be First: The Master-Slave Dialectic in Hegel, Nietzsche and Fanon" (Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Summer 2007) and "Nevisian Women's Gender Consciousness: Content and Sources" (Caribbean Studies, January-June 2009).

Her 1985 book, Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers, received the 1987 Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association and was chosen for Contemporary Sociology's 1996 Special Issue on "Favorite Books of the Past 25 Years." A veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Rollins collaborated with a Louisiana woman (who had housed her and other Civil Rights workers in the '60s) to produce the oral history, All is Never Said: the Narrative of Odette Harper Hines (1985). Historian Darlene Clark Hine has described it as "by far one of the best books I have read in all my years of working in the field of Black women's history." Judith Rollins' current research is a community study of a village on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, with a focus on the women in the village.

In 2007-08, Dr. Rollins was Program Chair for the 2008 conference of the Association of Black Sociologists, the largest organization in the U.S. of sociologists with an interest in the Africana world and/or of African descent. In 2008-09, she served as president of the Association.