Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs as the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, and in History at the College of Liberal Arts. As a professor at Tufts University, he founded the first CSRD to promote engaged scholarship on race and democracy’s impact on global citizens. He received a B.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. from Temple University.

Dr. Joseph’s work has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. Dr. Joseph has commentated on National Public Radio, The Colbert Report, PBS, and MSNBC, and has authored several award-winning books. He recently published "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X. and Martin Luther King Jr."

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