Malachi D. Crawford, Ph.D.

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

Contact Information

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