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Kitonga Alexander

  • PhD Student, History

Education

  • PhD, History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, expected graduation 2023 Dissertation Topic: Black Milwaukee: Adversity after WWII
  • Master of Science, Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business (Specialization Management), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Bachelor of Arts, (Major in Africology), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Teaching Interests

  • AFRIC 112 Introduction to African American History, 1865 to Present
  • AFRIC 265 Phycological Effects of Racism HIST 151 American History: 1607 to 1877
  • HIST 152 American History: 1877 to the Present
  • Africology 100 Black Reality: Survey of African American Society

Research Interests

  • African American migration
  • African American cultural identity
  • Revolts and uprisings within the African Diaspora

Related Activities

  • Milwaukee’s Welcome Home Project Coordinator, UPP (2019 – Current)
  • Milwaukee Bronzeville Arts and Memory: A Digital Humanities Project Arts Wisconsin (2021 – Current)
  • Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee Research Project University of Wisconsin Milwaukee/ Marquette University (2021 – Current)

Awards

  • TMJ4 Annual Positively Milwaukee Award. (2017)
  • TMJ4 Outstanding Teacher Award. (2010) Milwaukee Association of Ministers.

Selected Publications

Alexander, K.  “Media Influence on Me”. Myriad, Volume 9, No. 1, 2000

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.