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Tukufu Zuberi
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, Director of Center for Africana Studies, Host of PBS's "History Detectives"
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, a Professor of Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a visiting professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He currently directs the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), an international collaboration with African nations.
An important academic voice in America, Dr. Zuberi's research focuses on race and African and African Diaspora populations. He developed and expanded the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Zuberi holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, is the author or editor of several books, articles, essays, and reviews, and has received numerous awards for his academic work. Dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public, he is a regular guest lecturer at colleges and universities across the country and internationally, and on various television programs.
Dr. Zuberi is the author of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century" and "Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie." He has recently completed a manuscript entitled "Pearls of the African Sea: Jenne, Gao, and Timbuktu." He is the editor of "The General Demography of Africa" and co-editor of "The Demography of South Africa" and "White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology." He has written more than 50 scholarly articles and co-edited several volumes, including special issues of several academic journals. Dr. 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 21st Century;" the March 2000 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on "The Study of African American Problems: Papers In Honor Of W.E.B. Du Bois;" a volume of "Race and Society on Racial Statistics;" and a volume of The Journal of Black Studies.
Dr. Zuberi is popularly known as a host on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series "The History Detectives." Now in its seventh season, "History Detectives" regularly shows how individual objects can serve as a lens into the past. As a "history detective," Dr. Zuberi observes the social and cultural forces that shape historical mysteries in American society.
Raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California in the 1970s, he embraced the name Tukufu Zuberi – Swahili for "beyond praise" and "strength." He has said "I took 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."
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