MICRO-BIO

• These days, I come as a post-civil rights activist; one who balances teaching, research, and service in the creation of a live conversation about diversity and inclusion with those who gather within the sound of my voice. As an academic leader and..

  These days, I come as a post-civil rights activist; one who balances teaching, research, and service in the creation of a live conversation about diversity and inclusion with those who gather within the sound of my voice. As an academic leader and activist in the Diversity Movement of the twenty-first century, I stand in the classroom and within the community walls to speak of the equality and freedoms of a democracy charging the air we breathe. I understand how the discourse not only pulls us together, but also becomes our articulate collective authentication to change the world. For more than 30 years Anne Bernice Onyekwuluje has been a cultural voice for equality and justice; teaching, writing, and speaking out against racism, sexism, classism, and organized inequities of all kinds. A product of Texas’ racism, sexism, and classism, a Black woman’s voice, born in the struggle in Texas against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. My life and work supports the concept of a diverse community-based culture with an enlarged capacity for mutual respect and care for humanity. Less

EXPERIENCE

• Western Kentucky University

  • Professor
  • Department of Sociology
  • August 1996 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • PHD
  • August 1995 to Present

  Anne Onyekwuluje is a full professor in Sociology at Western Kentucky University. Her research interests rotate around race, class, gender, culture, diversity, and inequality. She employs qualitative methods in her work on race in diversity and culture.

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