Allison Blakely

George and Joyce Wein Chair of African American Studies

Email: ablakely@bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-1420

B.A. History, University of Oregon; M.A., Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Blakely came to Boston University in 2001 after teaching for thirty years at Howard University. He is the author of Blacks in the Dutch World: Racial Imagery and Modernization (Indiana University Press, 1994); Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought (Howard University Press, 1986–winner of an American Book Award in 1988); several articles on Russian populism; and others on various European aspects of the Black Diaspora. His interest in comparative history has centered on comparative populism and on the historical evolution of color prejudice. Among the awards he has received are Woodrow Wilson, Mellon, Fulbright-Hays, and Ford Foundation Fellowships. He is President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and serves on the editorial board of its journal The American Scholar.