Will Guzmán, Ph.D

Contact Information

Professor of History
Office: 316—Woolfolk Bldg.
Phone: 936-261-2555
Email / Twitter:  @ebeyiye
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching/Research Area of Interest

  • African American
  • Afro-Puerto Rican
  • Caribbean

Education

  • Ph.D., History, University of Texas-El Paso
  • M.S., Social Science Education, Florida State University
  • B.S., African American Studies, Florida A&M University

Selection of Courses Taught

  • African History: 19th/20th centuries  ·  Afro-Latin America
  • African American History  ·  Civil Rights Movement
  • Peoples & Cultures of the Caribbean  ·  African Diaspora
  • Blacks, Mass Incarceration, and the Police
  • Blackness & National Identity Formation in Puerto Rico
  • Upcoming 2022-23 classes: HIST-3362: Afro-Puerto Rican History, HIST-4383: Malcolm X & The Nation.HIST-3351: Global Black Power, HIST-2383: HBCU History

Selected Research Activities

  • Residential Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2021-22
  • Raymond A. Brown: Black Power Attorney (Fordham U. Press, in-progress)
  • co-Editor, Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine (TTUP, 2021)
  • co-Editor, inaugural Afro-Texans Book Series, Texas Tech U. Press (TTUP), 2021-present
  • co-Editor, Florida’s Black Power Movement (U. Press of Florida, in-progress)
  • An Afro-Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches, 1873-2019 (in-progress)
  • Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands (U. of Illinois Press, 2015)

Selected Service Activities

  • Copy Editor, BlackPast.org, 2020-present
  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Africana Studies, 2017-present
  • Editorial Board, Journal of History and Culture (PVAMU), 2018-20
  • Member, “Dorie” Miller Medal of Honor National Committee, 2016-20
  • Book Reviews Editor, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies, 2016-19
  • Member, Amistad Guide Panel, NJ State Bar Foundation, 2018-19
  • Member, FL Statewide Task Force on African American History, 2016-17
  • Consultant, “Civil Rights in the Sunshine State” exhibit, 2014-15

Quote

“I trust that my use of words such as “capitalism,” “imperialism,” and “neocolonialism” will not be deemed as a cover for sinister intent. My indulgence in those terms is aimed at exposing a system which is barbarous and dehumanizing—one which snatched me from Africa in chains and deposited me in far-off lands to be a slave beast, then a sub-human colonial subject, and finally an outlaw in those lands. Under those circumstances, one asks nothing more but to be allowed to learn from, participate in, and be guided by the African Revolution in this part of the continent; for this Revolution here is aimed at destroying that monstrous system and replacing it with a just socialist society.”  -Walter A. Rodney, Guyanese scholar, historian, and political activist

Nationalist (Tanzania), 17 December 196

La Jungla, The Jungle, Wifredo Lam, Afro Cuban Artist, 1943

Wifredo Lam. The Jungle (La Jungla) 1943. MoMa in New York, NY.