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Mark Anthony Neal

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
Science Building, 243F, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Mark Anthony Neal is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit).

He is the author of several books including What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013).  The 10th Anniversary edition of Neal’s New Black Man was published in February of 2015 by Routledge. Neal is co-editor of That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge), now in its second edition. Additionally Neal host of the video webcast Left of Black, which is produced in collaboration with the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke. You can follow him on Twitter at @NewBlackMan and IG at @BookerBBBrown

Current Appointments & Affiliations


James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies · 2018 - Present African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of African and African American Studies · 2007 - Present African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Chair in the Department of African and African American Studies · 2022 - Present African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of English · 2016 - Present English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies · 2021 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Education, Training & Certifications


State University of New York, Buffalo · 1996 Ph.D.
State University of New York, Fredonia · 1993 M.A.
State University of New York, Fredonia · 1987 B.A.