Professional Affiliation

Professor, Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville

Expert Bio

Joy Gleason Carew, Ph.D. is Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. Dr. Carew has been in academe for over forty years, in institutions as varied as community colleges, major research universities, small liberal arts colleges, and historically black universities. Currently, she is the Resident Linguist and African Diasporan specialist in the Department of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. Recent publications include work with her late husband, the writer and Pan-Africanist Jan Carew--  "Episodes in My Life: The Autobiography of Jan Carew (Peepal Tree Press, 2015).