Dr. Ousmane Power-Greene is the E. Franklin Frazier Chair of Africana Studies and Professor of History at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Dr. Power-Greene’s books include Against Wind and Tide: African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement (NYU, 2014); the co-edited volume In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (University of Georgia Press, 2021); and a novel, The Confessions of Matthew Strong (Other Press/Random House, 2022), which was a finalist for the New England Book Award and was recognized by NPR as a Best Book of 2022. Professor Power-Greene has been recognized with various fellowships, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities’ sponsored scholar-in-residency program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. He has been featured on C-SPAN Book TV, radio programs such as All Things Considered, and NPR’s history podcast Throughline.
