Faculty

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie is a professor of history and Graduate Director of the Department.   His books include Black History:  “Old School” Black Historians and the Hip Hop Generation (Bedford Publishers, Inc., 2006), The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene (University of Illinois Press, 2007), and African American History Reconsidered (University of Illinois Press, 2010).  As the Principal Investigator for the Carter G. Woodson Home, NHS, he recently completed the Historic Resource Study entitled “Willing to Sacrifice”:  Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, and the Carter G. Woodson Home, NHS (Washington, DC:  National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior, National Capital Region, 2010).  His current project is What is African American History? (Polity Press:  Cambridge, UK, forthcoming, 2013).