Marco Robinson, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of History
Contact Information
Associate Professor of History and
Assistant Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice
Office: Banks
Phone: 936-261- 3219
Email/Website
Teaching/Research Area of Interest
- Public History
- U.S. History (Reconstruction to Present)
- Education in the US South
- Civil Rights Activism
- Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender
- Social Justice
- Community Studies
- The African Diaspora
- Race Relations
Methodological Approaches
Qualitative Methods, Archival Studies, Historic Preservation. And Digital Humanities
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Mississippi, May 2010 History
- M.A., Jackson State University, May 2003 History
- B.A., Jackson State University, May 2001 History
Selection of Courses Taught
- US History (both halves)
- The Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
- Introduction to Historical Methods of Research
- African American History (both halves)
- Introduction to the African Diaspora
- Introduction to Public History
Selected Research Activities
- Co-Editor, Contemporary Debates in Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring the Lives of Black and Brown Americans, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2021.
- Walle Engedayehu, Ph.D., Marco Robinson, Ph.D, “The State of Ethiopian Jews in Israel: Seamless Integration or Subtle Exclusion?”, Journal of International politics, 2019,1(4), pp. 21-39.
- Engaging the Public with and Preserving the History of Texas’s first Public Historically Black University. KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies X(X): X DOI: , 2018.
- Rust College, The First 150 Years and Beyond. (Book Chapter) “A New Life for a Race: Emancipated Blacks of Marshall County, the Origins of Shaw University and the Legacy of Rust College”, (Granthouse Publishing: Little Rock, AR), 2018.
- “Telling the Stories of Forgotten Communities: Oral History, Public Memory, and Black Communities in the American South” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Volume 13, Number 2, (Spring 2017): 171- 184.
- Contributed articles on Rust College and C.L. Franklin, The Mississippi Encyclopedia, Ted Ownby and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds., Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, and James Thomas, associate eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017).
- MUSIQUES NOIRES: L’HISTOIRE D’UNE RÉSISTANCE SONORE, “Floyd Newman: Cultural Resistance and the Memoirs of a Memphis Jazz and Soul Artist`”, book chapter in an international volume on Music and Cultural Resistance, (Publisher Camion Blanc: Paris, France), September 2016.
Selected Projects
- African American Studies Institute at the National Humanities Center. https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-programs/recentering-narrative-black-womens-voices-of-19th-20th-centuries/
- Utilizing Interactive Maps and Apps to Preserve Local History: Digitizing the Black Experience in Waller County, Texas, website: https://dh-abstracts.library.cmu.edu/works/6263
- Reconstructing Dabney Lane: Using Online 3D environments to re-construct a Rural Black Community in North Mississippi during the early 1900s (in process) website: https://drrob3000.wixsite.com/mysite/research-and-projects
- Merging Oral Histories with 3D Technology: Documenting the experiences of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) and creating 3D Digital models of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) Monasteries and Shrines in the Holy Land (https://dh-abstracts.library.cmu.edu/works/6263ummer 2022)
Selected Service Activities
- QEP Committee Member
- Undergraduate Research Symposium
- RISE Research Program Mentor
- Ruth J. Simmons Undergraduate Scholars Mentor
- PVAMU Honors Program Instructor/Mentor