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Robert A. Bellinger
Associate Professor of History
Director, Collection
of African American Literature
Director, Black
Studies Program
Education:
Ph.D. – Boston College
Ed.M. - Harvard Graduate School of Education
B.A. – Amherst College
Personal Statement:
All history depends ultimately upon its
social purpose. This is why in the
past it has been handed down by oral tradition and written chronicle.
. . .
(Paul Thompson, The Voices of the Past, p. 1)
Prof. Bellinger teaches classes in African American and American
history, African Diasporan studies, and the history and culture
of Senegal. His research interests include late 19th century African
American history, West African history and Culture, and West African
drum traditions. In addition to his teaching and research, Prof.
Bellinger is also involved in training student teachers to teach
history in the middle and secondary schools, working on the inclusion
of African and African diasporan history and culture into school
and university curriculums, and working with study abroad programs
that provide students an international, cross-cultural enhancement
of their academic work.
Programs and Research
Director, The Geuwel Tradition
Research Project, Dakar, Senegal
Director, Senegalese-American
Student Teaching Program, Dakar, Senegal
Co-Director, The Freedman’s
Bureau Papers Project
Related Activities:
Afriterra, Board of Directors www.afriterra.org
Interfuture, Inc., Board of Directors www.interfuture.org
Primary Source Teaching Africa Program, Advisory
Board
History Department Education Advisor for Student Teachers
Memberships:
African American Historical and Genealogical Society www.aahgs-ne.org
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
African Studies Association
MANDE Studies Association
West Africa Research Association
Massachusetts Colonial Society
American Historical Association
Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society
 Performance
Groups :
Soli Soma Jembe Orchestra (2001-present) solisoma.blogspot.com
Trytone Creative Music Ensemble (1999-present)
Roots Uprising Dance Company (2002-present)
Tam Tam Gise (2006)
International Manager,
Sing Sing, Jr. Sabar Drum Ensemble
Office:
History Department
25th Floor of One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Phone:
(617) 573-8121
Email:
rbelling@suffolk.edu
Mailing Address:
Suffolk University History Department
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
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