University of Connecticut |Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, was appointed Director of the Institute for African American Studies in August 2003. An associate professor in the Department of History, Dr. Ogbar has been active in activities concerning African American studies and African American students at UConn since his arrival in 1997. Prof. Ogbar's research interests include the 20th century United States with a focus in African American history. More specifically, Dr. Ogbar studies black nationalism and radical social protest. He has developed courses, lectured and published articles on subjects as varied as Pan-Africanism, African American Catholics, civil rights struggles, black nationalism and hip-hop. In 1999-2000 Dr. Ogbar worked as a research fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, while completing his book, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. In the fall of 2001 Prof. Ogbar was a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, while working on his second book manuscript, Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap. In early 2003, Prof. Ogbar published his edited book, The Civil Rights Movement, which is part of Houghton Mifflin's Problems in American Civilization series. His articles appear in the "Journal of Religious Thought," the "Journal of Black Studies," "Souls" and other scholarly publications. He earned his BA from Morehouse College and his MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University.