Robinson is a native of Rural North, Mississippi, where he received his early education and developed an undeniable passion on for learning by reading dictionaries and encyclopedias to gain knowledge. This led him to pursue a degree in history and education. Dr. Robinson holds the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Jackson State University and the Ph.D. in history form the University of Mississippi. Currently he is the Assistant Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice at Prairie View A &M University, a position he’s held since 2021. Additionally, he is an Associate Professor of History and a Mentor for the PVAMU Honors Program.at Prairie View A &M University. Prior to Prairie View, he served as an Assistant Professor of History/Instructor of History at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He also served as a Social Science Area Coordinator, where he advised majors, facilitated Intern placements and served as an advisor and a Graduate Assistant for the social studies students.
Dr. Robinson has been engaged in scholarly programs at several universities such as the Digital Born Scholarly Publishing NEH Summer Institute at Brown University, The National Humanities Center, Co-Coordinator, Teacher Institute: Teaching African American Studies Summer Institute: Understanding the Long View of the African Diaspora, the United Negro College Fund-Carnegie Mellon Seminar in Salvador, Brazil, Historical Perspectives of Race/ Blackness, Identity and Beauty in Black Brazil, the Archival Research in Atlanta, Georgia, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Seminar in Ghana, West Africa. He was a Fulbright Scholar stationed in South Africa where he visited eight universities, developing a curriculum dealing with creating learning modules regarding my experiences for his World and African Diaspora Courses.
Some of Dr. Robinson’s awards and recognitions include the PVAMU Mellon Center for Teaching Excellence Outstanding Professor Award, Outstanding Departmental Faculty Award, Division of Social Work, Behavioral, and Political Sciences, Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences, Prairie View A &M University, the State of Mississippi H.E.A.D.W.A.E. Faculty Member of the Year Award, the Florence Ellen Bell Scholar Award, Drew University, the DeSoto County African American History Symposium Achievement Award, Tri-State Defender Men of Excellence Award, Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year and Head Start Volunteer of the Year.
Dr. Robinson has served as Principal and Co-Principal Investigator for several research projects which were awarded more than $1.5 Million dollars in grants from Humanities Texas, Integrating African American Studies at HBCUs Summer Studies, collaboration between the University Texas and Prairie View A&M University to build a website documenting and preserving the history the domestic slave trade. His current project, Toward Culturally Responsive Disaster Management for Limited Resource Producers: The Role of Person, Place and Professional Agencies to assess the role culture plays in how to prepare for, cope with and respond to disasters, and the impact of disasters with respect in the community. His other research focused on the COVID- 19 Pandemic and Rural Communities of Color: Examining the Impact of Race, Healthcare Accessibility, and Health Literacy in Waller County Texas, particularly the County’s African American resident’s health. The research will utilize Interactive Maps and Apps to Preserve Local History: Digitizing the Black Experience in Waller County, Texas.
He is the author of several books and manuscripts to include Through Mama’s Eyes: Unique Perspectives of Southern Matriarchy, We were all we had: Transcending Race and forging a Community of Mothers in the Post-Civil Rights Era South, University of Louisiana, Lafayette Press, Co-Editor, Contemporary Debates in Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring the Lives of Black and Brown Americans, Telling the Stories of Forgotten Communities: Oral History, Public Memory, and Black Communities in the American South" Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Volume 13, Number 2. For more information, Click Marco Vita
The Men’s Breakfast is commemorating its 20-plus years at St. Francis of Assisi, and the current team include Donald Sowell (Coordinator), Glenn Berry, Darryl Johnson, Charles Muse, Frederick V. Roberts, Michael Sowell, William Sowell and Herbert Thomas.
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