Faculty

Kersuze Simeon-Jones

Professor

Contact

Home Campus: Tampa
Office: FAO 271
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education

Ph.D., University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
M.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
B.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Bio

Dr. Kersuze Simeon-Jones is Full Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, at the 小黄鸭视频. Her primary research and teaching interests include Intellectual History and Sociopolitical Movements of the African Diaspora, Haiti鈥檚 National History, Women History within the African/Black Diaspora.

She is the author of The Intellectual Roots of Contemporary Black Thought: Nascent Political Philosophies, Routledge; Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; and Black Femalehood and the Principles of Existence in Practice, Routledge. She has also published numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedic entries. Her work include: 鈥淩acial Politics in Haiti,鈥 Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press; 鈥淭he N茅gritude Philosophy and the Movement,鈥 Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies; 鈥淭he Pan-African Philosophy and Movement: The Practice of Multiculturalism,鈥 Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond Liberalism, Routledge; 鈥淣oirisme: Black Power and Black Pride,鈥 Digital Library of the Caribbean; 鈥淒茅mences, Psychoses et Libert茅 Psychique dans Le Cri de l鈥檕iseau rouge,鈥 Ecrits d鈥橦a茂ti: Perspectives sur la litt茅rature ha茂tienne contemporaine, Editions Karthala; 鈥淢asculinity in Hurston鈥檚 Texts,鈥 The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, Praeger Books; 鈥淗aiti鈥檚 Politico-Cultural Transcript: Moving toward National Rehabilitation,鈥 Negritud: Afro-Latin American Studies; 鈥淧roduction et Reproduction: Le Symbolisme Historique du Corps de la Femme Antillaise et de sa Prog茅niture,鈥 Journal of Caribbean Studies; 鈥淔ree Poetics, Nation Language in Caribbean Literature,鈥 Journal of Caribbean Studies.

Education

Dr. Simeon-Jones holds an Interdisciplinary Doctoral degree in: History and Literature of the Black Diaspora, from the University of Miami, Florida. Completed Post-Doctoral Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (African-American Studies and Research Program).

She holds a Master of Arts Degree in French Philosophy and Literature, and in Francophone Studies (Africa and the Caribbean), from Rutgers University. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in French Literature, with a Minor in Spanish Language and Literature, also from Rutgers University.

languages

Native Fluency: English, French, and Haitian Creole

Language Proficiency: Spanish and Portuguese