Omar H. Ali

Omar Hamid Ali (b. Feb. 10, 1971) is a historian who specializes in independent black political movements in the United States, Islam in the Indian Ocean World, and resistance to slavery in Latin America. Of East Indian and Peruvian background, he is Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and on the faculty of the History Department at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has also been a Fulbright professor of history and anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, a visiting professor in the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, and a Library Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he studied anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies before receiving his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 2003. He is the author of several books, including In the Lion's Mouth (2010) and In the Balance of Power(2008), and wrote the narrative for The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World exhibit for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. He serves as a Road Scholar for the North Carolina Humanities Council, a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, a History Academic Advisory Member of the College Board, and is on the Teaching Prize Committee for the World History Association. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the All Stars Project and IndependentVoting.org, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS News, Al Jazeera, Telemundo, C-SPAN, and PBS, among other national and local media.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

References

1. ^ Road Scholars Program, North Carolina Humanities Council http://www.nchumanities.org/programs/road-scholars/omar-ali-phd
2. ^ North Raleigh News article http://www.northraleighnews.com/2011/05/08/7839/his-message-islam-part-of-american.html
3. ^ Partners for Africa http://www.pfa-partnersforafrica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=147
4. ^ Fulbright Colombia, interview http://zeus.fulbright.edu.co/secciones/colombian_quarterly/60/capitulo_7.htm

External links

• The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, faculty website [1]
• North Carolina Humanities Council [2]
• Speakers Platform [3]

Selected Bibliography

• "The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World" (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 2011)
• In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010), foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
• "Islam, Trade, and Empire," in Africa and the Wider World, Hakeem Tijani, Raphael Njoku, et al., eds. (Boston, MA: Pearson, 2010)
• "Lenora Branch Fulani: Challenging the Rules of the Game," African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House, Bruce Glasrud, et al., eds. (New York: Routledge, 2010)
• "Islam and the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World" Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed (2009)
• In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third Party Movements in the United States (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008), foreword by Eric Foner
• "Independent Black Politics," editor, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Spring 2005)

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Name	Ali, Omar H.
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