David Henry Anthony III
Professor Emeritus
Humanities Division
Professor Emeritus
Faculty
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities Building 1
532 Humanities 1
online
Spring 2022: 9-11 Wednesday morning and by appointment (on Zoom); email in advance to schedule an appointment
Humanities Academic Services
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
African Social and Cultural History With Special Reference to Eastern and Southern Africa
African American Social and Cultural History
African Cinema
African Religion
Islam in Africa
African American and Diasporic Spirituality
African and Diasporic Literature
African Music
African American Music
African American Improvisational Music and "Jazz" tradition
Christianity in Africa
African and African-American history, art, music, literature and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African Languages; Indian Ocean wold; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history
Fellow, Residential Research Grant (RRG) Civil Wars, UCHRI (University of California Humanities Research Institute, UCI, Fall 2019
2016 UCSC Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity http://diversity.ucsc.edu/diversity/caafd/index.html
2014 Excellence in Teaching Award, UC Santa Cruz Senate Committee on Teaching http://news.ucsc.edu/2014/06/excellence-in-teaching.html
2006 Nominee and Honorable Mention: UC Santa Cruz Committee on Teaching.
1994 Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
1990 - 1991 President's Humanities Research Fellowship: UC Office of the President [?].
Jun 1990 Josie King Community Service Award: Presented by Class of 1990, University of California, Santa Cruz, African Awards and Recognition Ceremony.
Jun 1987-Jul 1988 Fulbright Award: Fulbright Lecturer, History Department, National University of Lesotho, Kingdom of Lesotho, Southern Africa.
Jun 1976-Jul 1977 Research Fellow: Fulbright-Hays Research Foundation, Department of State, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Tanzania, East Africa.
https://www.moadsf.org/event/curators-talk-after-the-thrill-is-gone-fashion-politics-and-culture-in-contemporary-south-african-art/ March 28, 2018
https://chimurengalibrary.tumblr.com/post/88880252134/our-history-did-not-begin-in-chains-amilcar June 15, 2014
"A Luta Continua: African Liberation Posters from the collection of David H. Anthony," McHenry Library, UCSC, Summer 2002.
Guest artist (tenor saxophone), Karlton Hester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0netbzKzvSw 2021 MLK Virtual March for the Dream -- Justice, Reconciliation & Reparations
Streamed live on Jan 18, 2021 NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vCOMGYD8U Question Bridge Blueprint Roundtable Highlights- UC Santa Cruz April 3, 2019
QuestionBridge Black Males April 3, 2019 Question Bridge: Black Males Blueprint Roundtable Discussion 6:30 p.m. reception7:00-8:30 p.m. discussion Oakes Learning Center at Oakes College at UCSC https://art.ucsc.edu/sesnon/question-bridge-0
https://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/sesnon/events-blueprint-round-table-discussion
https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/question-bridge-black-males-blueprint-panel-discussion
https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/03/blueprint-roundtable-race.html
- “Introduction,” 2020 Hindsight: Looking Back on a Tumultuous Year in Santa Cruz County. Shmuel Thaler, ed. Wallace Baine and co-eds. (Santa Cruz: Community Printers, 2021)
- Anthology: Viz. INTER-ARTS Interventions: A trans-genre anthology, Roxanne Powers, Ed. In Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip At the University of California, Santa Cruz Graduate/Faculty Seminar, Sponsored by the UC Presential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Moderators: David Anthony & Vilashini Cooppan, Forum year: November 2012, Publication year: 2016
- "Freedom: Life After Slavery," prepared for Teacher Created Materials [With Stephanie Kuligowski] Huntington Beach, CA: 2012
- "Langston Hughes: Harlem Renaissance Writer," prepared for Teacher Created Materials [With Stephanie Kuligowski] Huntington Beach, CA: 2012
- "Oswin Boys Bull and the Emergence of Southern African 'Nonwhite' YMCA Work," Journal of Anglican Studies, 2011
- Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior New York, New York University Press, 2006
- "Unwritten History: African Work in the YMCA of South Africa," History in Africa: A Journal of Method 32 (2005), 435-444
- "African Film Festivals in Focus," Documentary Box 24: Quarterly Journal of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Tokyo (March 10, 2005)
- "Max Yergan Encounters South Africa: Theological Perspectives on Race," Journal of Religion in Africa 34:3 (2004): 235-65
- "Crossing The Water: African-American Historical Linkages with South Africa." Co-editor with Robert R. Edgar and Robert T. Vinson (Ohio Press, forthcoming)
- "'The Men of Me': Max Yergan and the 'Bantu Section'of the South African YMCA Association," in Black Modernity: Discourses Between the United States and South Africa, Ntongela Masilela, ed. (in press: Africa World Press, Trenton, 2004).
- "Islam in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Studies in Contemporary Islam. Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 2002)
- African Lliberation Poster Art. Curator. June-Sept 2002:
- UCSC Library, California Learning Resource Network, UCSC Currents
- "Max Yergan in South Africa: A Transatlantic Interaction." Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in African Diaspora, R. Kelley and S. Lemelle, eds. London and New York: Verso, 1994.
- "South African People's History." History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices, J. Brown et al., eds., 277-86. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
- Enduring Questions about Diamonds, December 11th, 2006. Interview with "To The Point" on KCRW.
- Talk of the Bay radio interview on KUSP 88.9, March 27th, 2006. Discussion behind the mystery of Max Yergan, black activist turned apartheid supporter.
- Africa Today interview, KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley, January 3, 2011.
- "Remembering John Hope Franklin," 7th Avenue Project, KUSP-FM, Sunday March 29, 2010
- "Remembering The Life and Work of Dennis Brutus," Poetry Show, KUSP-FM