Cynthia_A._Young

Cynthia A. Young

Cynthia A. Young

American associate professor

Cynthia Ann Young (born 1969) is associate professor of African American Studies and English, and head of the Department of African American Studies, at Pennsylvania State University.[1][2] Prior to her work at Penn State she was on the faculty of Boston College, where she directed the African and African Diaspora Studies Program.[3]

She authored Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Duke University Press, 2006).[4] She was a contributor to the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.[5][6]

Education

Young has a BA in English from Columbia University, where she was a Kluge scholar,[7] and a PhD in American studies from Yale University.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "Cynthia A. Young". People. African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  2. [2]
    Noor, Hinaa (March 1, 2018). "Cynthia Young, Penn State colleagues are fostering a series of timely conversations on race and more". Town & Gown.
  3. [3]
    Jeffries, Julia R. (March 9, 2010). "Young Discusses Race, War, Culture: BC Professor speaks on her research on race, pop culture, and the war on terror". The Harvard Crimson.
  4. [4]
    Reviews of Soul Power:
  5. [5]
    Grey, Erin (2015). "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties". Panorama. 1 (1).
  6. [6]
    "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  7. [7]
    Boss-Birack, Shira (November 2004). "John Kluge '37 Invests in the Future With the Kluge Scholars Program". Columbia College Today. Archived from the original on 2020-07-29. Retrieved July 7, 2021.


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