Joseph Jewell

Who is Joseph Jewell?

Joseph O. Jewell, Ph.D. serves as the current chair of the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Jewell comes to the African American Studies Department following the lead of Dr. John Davis and Dr. Ronald Barrett. Prior to his position at Loyola Marymount University, Dr. Jewell served as Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He also served as interim director of Texas A&M's Race and Ethnic Studies Institute. His research has included examining race and class in social and reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He published Race, Social Reform and the Making of a Middle Class: The American Missionary Association in Atlanta, 1870–1900,. He is also the co-author of "The Mis-Education of Black America: Black Education Since An American Dillemma" with Walter R. Allen in An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in A Changing World.