Lj Presents: The Miseducation of America with Dr. Jelani Favors

Dr. Jelani M. Favors is an associate professor of history at
Clayton State University. He has received major fellowships in
support of his research that includes an appointment as a
Humanities Writ Large Fellow at Duke University in 2013 and he
was the inaugural recipient of the HBCU Fellowship at the John
Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke in 2009. In 2014, he
was invited to co-teach a course entitled, “Citizenship and
Freedom: The Civil Rights Era,” alongside Pulitzer Prize winning
historian Taylor Branch at the University of Baltimore. His
published work on student activism has appeared in the North
Carolina Historical Review, The Review of Black Political
Economy, Ted Ownby’s, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
(University Press of Mississippi, 2013), and Robert Cohen and
David Snyder’s, Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student
Activism in the 1960s (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013). 


In 2018, his essay entitled “Race Women: New Negro Politics and
the Flowering of Radicalism at Bennett College, 1900-1945,” won
the R.D.W. Connor Award as the best article published in the
North Carolina Historical Review for that year. In 2019, Dr.
Favors released his first book entitled, Shelter in a Time of
Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and
Activism which was published by the University of North Carolina
Press. The book has received high praise from reviewers and has
reset the narrative on the legacy of Black colleges as incubators
of student activism. In May of 2020, Shelter in a Time of Storm
was the recipient of the Lillian Smith Book Award, given yearly
by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia
Libraries to the book that possesses “literary merit, moral
vision, and honest representation of the South, its peoples,
problems and promises."  


In February of 2020, Shelter in a Time of Storm was among five
books selected as a finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize by
the African American Intellectual History Society, which is
awarded annually to the top book in Black intellectual history.
Dr. Favors’s work and research has appeared in several media
outlets, including C-SPAN, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, and The Conversation. He earned his Ph.D. in History
from The Ohio State University where he also earned a M.A. in
African American Studies. He is a graduate of North Carolina
A&T Sate University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree
in history with honors. Dr. Favors is a native of Winston-Salem,
NC and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.





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