Carole Elizabeth Boyce Davies

who is currently professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University. In 2017, she received The Franz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and the Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association. She has held distinguished professorships at a number of Universities and is the author or editor of thirteen (13) books most recently Caribbean Spaces (2013) and the 3-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora She serves on the International Scientific Committee of UNESCO General History of Africa, Volume 9. She has lectured on Black Women’s Writings and Experience, Black Left Feminism, African Diaspora issues, at major colleges and universities in Brazil, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and China. She has held visiting professorships at University of Brasilia, Brazil, Beijing Foreign Studies University, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. As Director of African New World Studies at Florida International University, she developed the Florida Africana Studies Consortium and served on the Commissioner of Education’s Task Force for Implementing the Florida Mandate for the Teaching of African American experience. She has been president of major academic organizations such as the African Literature Association and Caribbean Studies Association.