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Born June 7, 1960.
EDUCATION:Howard University, B.A.; Temple University, M.A., Ph.D.
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Historian, educator, and writer. West Virginia University–Morgantown, associate professor of history, 2005-08, also served as coordinator and interim-coordinator of the Africana Studies Program, 1998-2002. Also worked at Xavier University, New Orleans, LA; the University of Virginia Luther Porter Jackson Black Culture Center, Charlottesville, VA; and Kean University, Union, NJ.
AWARDS:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Living the Dream Award for Scholarship; Judith Stitzel Endowment scholar, 2006; Humanities Fellowship, West Virginia Humanities Council, 2007.
WRITINGS
Contributor to books, including Plantation Society and Race Relations, edited by Thomas J. Durant and J. David Knottnerus, Praeger, 1999; Handbook of Black Studies, edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga, Sage, 2006; Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, edited by James Smallwood, Carolina Academic Press, 2008; and Afrocentricidade: Uma Abordagem Epistemologica Inovadora, edited by Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Selo Negro 2009. Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Black Studies. Founding editor of Africalogical Perspectives, 2004–.
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Katherine Bankole-Medina is a historian whose primary interests are African American and United States history, African American studies, Africalogy, race relations, and black women. She is also interested in the history of science, medicine, and technology, especially as it relates to slavery and medicine studies. A recipient of numerous scholarship, teaching and service awards, Bankole-Medina is also a contributor to books and professional journals. Her first book, Slavery and Medicine Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana, written as Katherine Bankole, provides a reevaluation of the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine and focuses primarily on enslaved peoples’ health problems, their efforts to deal with these problems, and how slave owner’s felt about medical care for their slaves. In the process, it highlights black Americans participation in and development of medicine in America, especially in terms of holistic well-being. In the process, Bankole-Medina addresses the proactive medical care fostered by blacks and scholars’ failure to address black slaves’ almost constant need for medical attention due to the brutality and punishments they typically experienced.
In her book titled World To Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism, and History, Bankole-Medina presents a collection of essays focusing on the 2015 riots in Baltimore, Maryland. The riots were over the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was arrested on April 12, 2015 by Baltimore police for possessing an illegal switchblade under Baltimore law. Gray went into a coma during in transport to jail in a police van and died a week later. An investigation was held but the police were eventually cleared of any wrongdoing. Drawing from the fields of history, political theory, African American studies, Africology, and critical race theory, Bankole-Medina situates the essays within the time of the protest event and the immediate aftermath, essentially from April through December 2015. Although the essays do not address the court cases of the six police officers involved in the incident, Bankole-Medina does place the essays within the context of the history of African-American activism and in the more immediate context of providing a perspective that includes the thoughts of many African Americans who question the police’s role in Gray’s death and who have been affected by fatal police encounter involving African Americans.
Bankroll-Medina begins with a look at black lives in the new millennium. She goes on to discuss what she calls the popular media ghettoization and provides an introduction to the police-encounter narrative. She eventually turns her attention to Baltimore and the new urban police states and examines various varieties of police and political leaders in connection with police violence and blacks. She examines the Baltimore uprising in depth including what she refers to as the “psychopomp of media.” A psychopomp is essentially a mythical guide with the primary function of escorting souls to the afterlife but may also be guides to help people through the various transitions of life. The archetype has remerged in the field of psychology.
World To Come includes an essay focusing on the Baltimore uprising and the black legacy of social justice and another essay discussing the militarization of urban America. Bankole-Medina then presents an essay titled “The World to Come and the Post-Millenial Revolution” and finishes with an examination of how the past affects everyone, which stresses the importance of history. Overall, Bankole-Medina addresses issues such as race, racism, law enforcement encounters, the media, and the Black Lives Matter movement. The book includes fifteen chapters, an epilogue, and an extensive appendix that includes a timeline of the Baltimore uprising, Baltimore uprising protest signs, and a compendium of African American’s who died in police encounters from 1994 to 2015. A Publishers Weekly contributor recommended World To Come to people interested in “the longstanding social tensions that suffuse America’s cities and the particular responses of Baltimore’s residents, politicians, and law enforcement.”
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PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, June 20, 2016, review of World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism, and History, p. 151.
ONLINE
Katherine Bankole-Medina Faculty Web site, http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com (March 13, 2017).
Katherine Bankole-Medina Home Page, http://katherinebankole.info (March 13, 2017).
Copin State University Web site, http://www.coppin.edu/ (March 13, 2017), author faculty profile.*
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Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina is Professor of History in the Department of Humanities at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Bankole-Medina served as Chair of the Department of History in August 2008-August 2009; and from August 2011-June 2013. From 2005 to 2008, she was a tenured Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. While holding a joint tenure-track faculty appointment, she also served as the administrative Director of the Center for Black Culture and Research from 1996 to 2005; and from 1998 through 2002, she was Coordinator (department chair-equivalent) and Interim-Coordinator of the Africana Studies Program at WVU. In addition, Dr. Bankole-Medina has been employed at several notable research-oriented institutions including: Xavier University of Louisiana (Department of History, New Orleans, LA), the University of Virginia (Luther Porter Jackson Black Culture Center, Charlottesville, VA), and Kean University (Africana Studies, Human Relations Center, Union, NJ).
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Katherine Bankole-Medina, Ph.D. is a tenured Professor of History at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Bankole-Medina teaches face-to-face and online courses in: African American history to and since 1865, United States History to and since 1865, World History to and since 1500, African American women’s history, Introduction to Latin American History, and Methods of Historical Research.
Professor of History
Coppin State University
Baltimore Maryland
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina joined Coppin State University’s department of History, Geography and Global Studies as Professor of History and Chair of the Department in August 2008. She served as chair of Coppin’s prestigious department during the 2008-2009 academic year. From 2005 to 2008, she was a tenured Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV). While holding a joint tenure-track faculty appointment, she also served as the administrative Director of the Center for Black Culture and Research from 1996 to 2005; and from 1998 through 2002, she was Coordinator (department chair-equivalent) and Interim-Coordinator of the Africana Studies Program at WVU. In addition to WVU, Dr. Bankole-Medina has been employed at several notable research-oriented institutions including: Xavier University (Department of History, New Orleans, LA), the University of Virginia (Luther Porter Jackson Black Culture Center, Charlottesville, VA), and Kean University (Africana Studies, Human Relations Center, Union, NJ).
For more than twenty years, Dr. Bankole-Medina has taught an extensive selection of courses in history and Africana Studies including: African American Cultural and Intellectual History, African American History (I&II), African American Women’s History, United States History (I&II), History of Black Nationalism, History of Enslavement in the United States, and graduate (master’s and doctoral candidate) seminars in history. At CSU Dr. Bankole-Medina teaches African American History I, United States History I, and Methods of Historical Research.
Dr. Bankole-Medina delivered major addresses at Coppin State University during the 2008-2009 academic year. She presented “The Historical Legacy of the Nadir and the Moral-Jurisprudential Principles of Charles Hamilton Houston” in the fall. In support of African American History Month 2009 she presented two lectures: she served as the department’s 14th Annual Carter G. Woodson Lecturer, speaking on “Evidence of Africans in the Vanguard of American Citizenship: The Primacy of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution”; and she also delivered the lecture “Slavery and Antebellum Medicine: Historical Perspectives on the Study of the Science of Healing.”
KATHERINE BANKOLE-MEDINA is a Professor of History at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a scholar of African American and United States history, African American Studies, Africalogy, Race Relations, Black Women, Slavery and Medicine Studies, and the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Dr. Bankole-Medina has published numerous scholarly articles on these subjects, including her book, Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana. Her research and scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Black Studies, Plantation Society and Race Relations (edited by Thomas J. Durant and J. David Knottnerus), Afrocentricidade: Uma Abordagem Epistemologica Inovadora (edited by Elisa Larkin Nascimento); Handbook of Black Studies (edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga) and Malcolm X A Historical Reader (edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. and James Smallwood). She served on the Editorial Board of The Encyclopedia of Black Studies (edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, Los Angeles: Sage, 2005). Since 2004 she has worked as the founding editor of Africalogical Perspectives: Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Race and Africana Studies. Her most recent publications include an article on African American women’s studies, the life and legacy of Fannie Jackson Coppin, and on Charles Hamilton Houston. Her current research focuses on antebellum medical racism and contemporary analysis of the 2015 Baltimore Uprising. The recipient of numerous scholarship, teaching and service awards, Dr. Bankole-Medina was twice named most influential person in the state of West Virginia. She is a recipient of the Judith Stitzel Endowment Award for teaching and research, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Scholarship, The Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference Award for Editorial Excellence, and she was selected for the first Distinguished Senior Faculty Research grant awarded by Coppin State University. Dr. Bankole-Medina’s additional training includes certification in Conflict Mediation (Racial/Ethnic Conflict); and she was also recently awarded the Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning from the Online Learning Consortium OLC (formerly the Sloan-C Consortium). Dr. Bankole-Medina has been interviewed by numerous radio stations, print news outlets (the Baltimore Sun, the Times-Picayune, and the Dominion Post), and on television (CNN [Fox and Friends] and NBC and CBS news affiliates).
Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina
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Biography
Katherine Bankole-Medina, Ph.D., is Professor of History and former Chair of History, Geography and Global Studies at Coppin State University. Prior to coming to Coppin she was Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for Black Culture and Research, and Coordinator of Africana Studies at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. She has served other institutions of higher learning including: Xavier University of Louisiana, Southern University at New Orleans, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Bankole is the author of numerous scholarly works including: Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medicine in Antebellum Louisiana (1998); “A Critical Inquiry of Enslaved African Females and the Antebellum Hospital Experience,†in The Journal of Black Studies and many publications on African American History, Race and Identity, African American Historiography, and Africana Studies discipline, theory, and methodology. Bankole-Medina has been recognized for her work with an Editorial Excellence from the Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, and was twice cited as one of the “100 Most Influential People†of West Virginia. In addition, the state of West Virginia recognized Bankole-Medina’s research with the Martin Luther King, Jr. “Living the Dream†Award for Scholarship. Bankole-Medina is also the founding editor of the scholarly journal, Africalogical Perspectives. In 2006 Bankole-Medina was named the Judith Stitzel Endowment scholar and received a 2007 Humanities Fellowship from the West Virginia Humanities Council. Bankole-Medina is an alumni of Howard University in Washington, D.C. (B.A.) and Temple University in Philadelphia (M.A./Ph.D).
World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism, and History
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Bankole-Medina, a professor of history at Coppin State University, uses her participation in and chronicling of the Black Lives Matter movement to provide necessary perspective on the Baltimore uprising in the spring of 2015 following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Her series of essays draws upon history and political theory, and is informed by aspects of popular culture. This dual perspective is simultaneously problematic and fruitful: the book lacks the clear focus and objective tone that would be expected of a work of academic scholarship, but Bankole-Medina is able to situate Gray's death and the resultant protest movement within a long and multifaceted history of African-American activism, the militarization of American policing, and race-based urban unrest. Bankole-Medina is not and does not pretend to be a neutral observer of American racial politics, and the "world to come" of her optimistic title is one that will be "free from anti-black racism." Anyone curious about the longstanding social tensions that suffuse America's cities and the particular responses of Baltimore's residents, politicians, and law enforcement officials will find much here to think long, deep, and hard about. (Book Life)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism, and History." Publishers Weekly, 20 June 2016, p. 151. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA456344791&it=r&asid=b37dcd278f609ed1fa15d32b32b58525. Accessed 22 Feb. 2017.
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