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Russell Benjamin
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Russell
Benjamin
Associate
Professor
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Office:
CLS 2079
Phone: (773) 442-4776
Email: r-benjamin@neiu.edu
Professor Benjamin's Vita
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Education
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Ph.D., University
of Florida, 1996
M.A., University of Florida, 1991
B.A., University of
South Carolina, 1985
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Research and Teaching Interests
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Dr. Benjamin’s research focuses upon the politics of
race in the United States,
especially as they intersect with entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the U.S. policy toward the Caribbean.
Dr. Benjamin is currently completing a book with Edwin Mellen Press, African Americans and the Caribbean: Recent
Political Considerations. Along with Dr. Gregory Hall, he is considering
a book contract offer for their co-edited book, Eternal Colonialism. Dr. Benjamin is also seeking to publish a
book manuscript, The Politics of Black
Commerce: Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Florida. He has also published
three book reviews, with another forthcoming. His teaching area includes African American and
American Minority Politics, Minority Economic Development, Politics of
Poverty, and Political
Gerontology.
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Selected Publications and Conference Participations
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Conrad, Cecilia A., John Whitehead, Patrick Mason, and James
Stewart (eds). 2005. African Americans in
the U.S.
Economy (Rowman & Littlefield). Reviewed in The Journal of Race and Policy 2 (2006): 91-94.
Watson, Alan D. 2005. African
Americans in Early North Carolina:
A Documentary History (N.C. Office of Archives and History). Reviewed in The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians
14 (2006): 118-121.
Nussbaum, Martha C. 1997. Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal
Education (Harvard
University Press).
Reviewed in National Association of
Student Affairs Professionals Journal 4 (2001): 65-66.
"Aging and Politics: The Case
of Indian River County, Florida." 1995. The Political Chronicle 7: 8-16.
“Socioeconomic Factors in the Development of
Civil Rights Groups.” Florida Education Fund Journal of Interdisciplinary
Research (forthcoming).
African Americans and the Caribbean:
Recent Political Considerations. Forthcoming, with Edwin
Mellen Press.
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