George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies College of Arts & Sciences
African-American Studies, History Address: 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline, MA 02446 Phone: 617.358.1420
Email: ablakely@bu.edu
Areas of Interest: African diaspora, Africans in Europe and Russia
Allison 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--a 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. He is national President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society (2006-2009) and the consulting editor of its journal, The American Scholar.
George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies
