Black Writers Lecture Series "Black Like Me? Langston Hughes in Africa"

James T. Campbell Assoc. Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History, Brown University

James Campbell received his Ph.D. in History from Stanford in 1989. He has taught at Northwestern University and at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is currently an associate professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History at Brown University. He is the author of Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). He is currently completing a study of African American travelers in Africa.