Faculty

Kersuze Simeon-Jones

Associate Professor

Contact

Home Campus: Tampa
Office: FAO 271
Telephone: (813) 974-6163
Email

education

Ph.D., University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
M.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Bio

Dr. Kersuze Simeon-Jones is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the 堁階傭部app.  Her primary research and teaching interests include Intellectual History and Sociopolitical Movements of the African Diaspora, Haitis National History, Women History within the African/Black Diaspora. 

She is the author of The Intellectual Roots of Contemporary Black Thought: Nascent Political Philosophies, Routledge; Black Femalehood and the Principles of Existence in Practice, Routledge; and Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.  She has also published numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedic entries.  Her work include: Racial Politics in Haiti, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press; The N矇gritude Philosophy and the Movement,&紳莉莽梯;Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies; The Pan-African Philosophy and Movement: The Practice of Multiculturalism,&紳莉莽梯;Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond Liberalism, Routledge; Noirisme: Black Power and Black Pride,&紳莉莽梯;Digital Library of the Caribbean; D矇mences, Psychoses et Libert矇 Psychique dans Le Cri de loiseau rouge,&紳莉莽梯;Ecrits dHa簿ti: Perspectives sur la litt矇rature ha簿tienne contemporaine, Editions Karthala; Masculinity in Hurstons Texts,&紳莉莽梯;The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, Praeger Books; Haitis Politico-Cultural Transcript: Moving toward National Rehabilitation,&紳莉莽梯;Negritud: Afro-Latin American Studies; Production et Reproduction: Le Symbolisme Historique du Corps de la Femme Antillaise et de sa Prog矇niture,&紳莉莽梯;Journal of Caribbean Studies; Free Poetics, Nation Language in Caribbean Literature,&紳莉莽梯;Journal of Caribbean Studies.

Dr. Simeon-Jones holds an Interdisciplinary Doctoral degree in: History and Literature of the Black Diaspora, from the University of Miami, Florida.  She completed a Master of Arts Degree in French and Francophone Literature at Rutgers University. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in French Literature, with a Minor in Spanish Language and Literature, also from Rutgers.