Alvin B. Tillery
(B.A., Morehouse College ; Ph.D., Harvard University , 2001) Assistant Professor , has research interests are in the fields of American politics and comparative race and ethnicity. His dissertation, The American Regime and Black Consciousness of Africa: From Martin Delany to Jesse Jackson, Jr. , examines the formation of a transnational (or diaspora) identity among black Americans and how macro sociological forces, social movement dynamics and partisan politics have shaped the way both blacks and whites have attempted to use this identity as a political resource. His essay "Black Americans and the Creation of America 's African Policies: the De-racialization of Pan-African Politics" is in Carol Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui and Isidore Okpewho (editors), The African Diaspora: Old World Origins and New World Self-Fashioning ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press,). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Leadership Alliance/Irene Diamond Fund and the Mellon Foundation. As a teaching fellow at Harvard, he was awarded four Derok Bok Center Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
Advising specialties:
Racial and ethnic politics in America ; American political development; social movements
Research and teaching interests:
Identity construction; nationalism; social movement theory
Contact Information
Email: Alvin.Tillery.2@nd.edu
Office: 441 Decio
Phone: (574) 631-3676
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556