Dr.
Robin D.G. Kelley
University of California, Los Angeles
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
2016
Robin D. G. Kelley holds the Gary B. Nash Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He writes on a broad range of topics, including the history of social movements, music, visual culture, race, and radical thought. His books include the prize-winning, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012); Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990); Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (1994); Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997); and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002).
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