Robert Bellinger, Associate Professor

Robert A. Bellinger

Associate Professor of History

Director, Collection of African American Literature
Director, Black Studies Program

Office:
History Department
One Bowdoin Square, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02114

Phone: (617) 573-8121 

Email: rbelling@suffolk.edu

Mailing Address: 
Suffolk University History Department 
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114

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 http://www.afriterra.org/
Interfuture, Inc., Board of Directors http://www.interfuture.org/
Primary Source Teaching Africa Program, Advisory Board
History Department Education Advisor for Student Teachers

Memberships:
African American Historical and Genealogical Society http://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