Julius Adekunle, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Director of African Diaspora Studies
- Scholarly interests: Politics, religion, culture, leadership
Department: History and Anthropology
Office: James and Marlene Howard Hall 339
Phone: 732-571-4478
Email: jadekunl@monmouth.edu
Professor Adekunle teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on globalization, politics, religions, and cultures of Africa.
He is the author and co-author of many books including Converging Identities: Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora (African World, 2013), Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective (University Press of America, 2012), Religion in Politics: Secularism and National Integration in Modern Nigeria (Africa World Press, Inc., 2009), and Culture and Customs of Rwanda (Greenwood Press, 2007).
Education
Ph.D., Dalhousie University
Courses
Recently Taught Classes
2025 Spring
2024 Fall
2024 Spring
- Colonial Africa – HS 396
- Colonialism in Africa – HS 585
- Western Civilization in World Perspective II – HS 102
2023 Fall
2023 Spring
- History of Africa – HS 295
- Readings and Research in History – HS 399
- Western Civilization in World Perspective II – HS 102
2022 Fall
- Nationalism in Africa – HS 587
- Western Civilization in World Perspective I – HS 101
- Western Civilization in World Perspective II – HS 102
2022 Spring
Frequently Taught Classes
- Colonial Africa (HS 396)
- Colonialism in Africa (AN 585, HS 585)
- Cultures and Societies of Africa (AN 296, HS 296)
- Globalization and Africa (HS 397)
- History of Africa (HS 295)
- Nationalism in Africa (HS 587)
- Readings and Research in History (HS 399, HS 499)
- Research Seminar in History (HS 461)
- Seminar in African History (HS 585)
- Western Civilization in World Perspective I (HS 101)
- Western Civilization in World Perspective II (HS 102)