Queonnah L. Coleman is currently a graduate student in the History department at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her bachelor’s degree in History along with a minor in Africana Studies from Fayetteville State University (Magna Cum Laude). During her undergraduate degree, she studied African American History and African Diaspora studies. Her primary focus was on Black Power and Black Nationalist movements during the 1960s and 1970s. Her secondary interests included Contemporary North Africa and the Middle East and Islamic studies. As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, she explored an array of topics, including gender and higher education and political movements in North Africa and the Middle East. Under the advisership of Dr. Keisha N. Blain at the University of Pittsburgh, Queonnah will continue her research on Black Internationalism by examining the global significance of the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam during the twentieth century.
Conferences & Presentations:
“Gender Analysis of Higher Education in North Africa and the Middle East From 1920-2018” National Undergraduate McNair Conference The University of California at Los Angles
July 31, 2019
“Gender Analysis of Higher Education in North Africa and the Middle East From 1920-2018” Mcnair Undergraduate Conference Duke University
November 2019