Dr. Minkah Makalani

Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History

Minkah Makalani is the Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He works in black political thought, intellectual history, the Black radical tradition, and diaspora in the Caribbean and U.S. He is the author of In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 (UNC Press, 2011) and is co-editor (with Davarian Baldwin) of Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem (Minnesota, 2013). His work has appeared in Souls, The Journal of African American History, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Small Axe.