Lessie B. Tate, Ph.D.

Dr. Lessie Tate
Dr. Lessie B. Tate
Associate Professor of History

Contact Information

Assistant Professor of History
Office:  203B W.R. Banks Building
Phone:  (936) 261-3217
Email  /  Curriculum Vitae

Teaching/Research Area of Interest

  • Sub-Saharan African History: Gender, Environment, Transnational, Diaspora
  • Nationalism: African Nationalism, Black Nationalism, Black Cultural Nationalism, Pan Africanism
  • African American History: Race and Ethnicity, Slavery, Black Internationalism

Education

  • Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. “The Power of Pan Africanism: African American/Tanzanian Linkages, 1947-1997”
  • M.A., History, Texas Southern University, 2003. “Lugha Ya Taifa: Kiswahili, Pan Africanism and Nationalism in Tanzania and the United States”
  • B.S., Psychology, minor in Sociology, University of Houston, 2000.

Selected Courses Taught

  • HIST 1313: U.S. History to 1876
  • HIST 1323: U.S. History since 1876
  • HIST 3370: Pre-Colonial Africa
  • HIST 3371: Post-Colonial Africa
  • HIST 3375: African Diaspora

Selected Research Activities

  • African Cultural Influence in American Society, edited.  San Diego: Cognella Publishing, Fall 2021 publication.
  • “Tanzanian/African American linkages: Working Pan Africanism through Black Internationalism.”  Presentation at the Third Biennial African Philosophy World Conference: Building Africa’s Future on African Philosophy, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, October 28-30, 2020.
  • “An African Liberation Language’s Entrance in the United States,” International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Review. Vol.6, No.1 (April 2020).
  • “The 1952 Meru Land Case:  A Pan Africanism Mission,” Journal of Education & Social Policy.  Vol.6, No.3 (September 2019).
  • “Networks from Pan African Linkages Emerge from UN 1952 Meeting,” Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research.  Vol.3, No.1 (July 2019).
  • “Pan-Africanism, Tanzanian/African American linkages and the Six Pan African Congress, 1969-1974,” Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. Vol.2, No.1 (May 2018).
  • “The Arusha Declaration: A Pan African Legacy.” Board Sponsored Roundtable at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 16-18, 2017.
  • “Tanzanian Nation Building in Africa and Abroad, 1967-1974.” Paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 1-3, 2016.