Du Bois Center Visiting Scholar Talk: Phillip Luke Sinitiere

Scholar-in-residence Dr. Phillip Luke Sinitiere delivers his Visiting Scholar Talk in the Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst. His talk is titled "Remembering History: Commemorating W. E. B. Du Bois's Legacy."

Phillip Luke Sinitiere teaches history and humanities at the College of Biblical Studies, a predominately African American school located in Houston’s Mahatma Gandhi District. A scholar of American religious history and African American studies, his recent books are Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis, and American History (2014), Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity (2015), and Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois (2019). Sinitiere’s essays and articles on Du Bois address the topics of religion, literature, historical memory, Pan-Africanism, journalism, anticommunism, peace, and socialism. Some of his current projects include a study of the themes of education, democracy, and peace across Du Bois’s latter decades, a book on intellectual autobiography and the making of Du Bois’s archive, and an essay volume on Shirley Graham Du Bois.