Joseph O. Jewell is a professor of Black Studies and Department Head at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Prior to his time at UIC, Jewell was an associate professor of African American Studies and Department Chair at Loyola Marymount University. At Loyola Marymount, Jewell came to the African American Studies Department following the lead of John Davis and Ronald Barrett. Jewell also held an appointment at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor of Sociology. 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, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).[1] 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 (Russell Sage, 1996).[2]
^Jewell, Joseph O. (2007). Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class: The American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN978-0742535466.
