Malachi D. Crawford, Ph.D.

Malachi D. Crawford
Malachi D. Crawford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History and Program Coordinator

Contact Information

Interim Associate Dean for Faculty, Academic, and Student Affairs
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator
Office: 304-B G.R. Woolfolk Bldg.
Phone: 936-261-3200
Email · Curriculum Vitae

Teaching/Research Area of Interest

  • African American Legal History
  • Africana Religions and Social Ethics
  • Critical Race Theory/History
  • Race and Policing
  • African American Intellectual History
  • Africana Womanist Literary Theory
  • Black Liberation Theology
  • Digital Storytelling

Education

  • University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO December 2012
    Ph.D. in Twentieth Century U.S. History, Focus: Law and Religion (Intersection) in African American History
    MA in African American History, December 2003
  • University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, NE December 1999
    BA in Black Studies and Political Science

Selection of Courses Taught

  • HIST 1313: U.S. History to 1876
  • HIST 1323: U.S. History since 1876
  • HIST 2813: African American History
  • HIST 3233: Contemporary U.S. History
  • HIST 4903: Senior Seminar in History

Selected Research Activities

  •  Black Muslims & the Law: Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali, Critical Africana Studies Series, Reiland Rabaka, ed. (Lexington Books, 2015)

Selected Service Activities

  • Chair, Grant Proposals Committee, PVAMU Division of Social Work, Behavioral & Political Sciences (DSWBPS), 2018-2020
  • Member, Search Committee for Full Professor of Political Science, PVAMU—DSWBPS, 2018-2019
  • Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Social Work, PVAMU—DSWBPS, 2018-2019