Bunche’s involvement in African studies; his career as a political scientist; and his role in decolonization as a United Nations official in the 1940s and 1950s.

Professor Henry can speak on a range of topics related to Ralph Bunche. He is especially qualified to speak on Bunche’s intellectual heritage and legacy and his career as an activist. Professor Henry received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago .

Since 1999 Professor Holloway is Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History and American Studies at Yale University. From 1994 to 1999 Professor Holloway served as Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies at the University of California at San Diego . Holloway received his Ph.D. in History at Yale University in 1995. His most recent publication focuses on the life of Ralph Bunche, and is entitled: Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941.

Bunche as a scholar and activist in his time at Harvard University.

A wide range of topics related to the Bunche legacy. Specifically, Professor Rivlin may be asked to address issues related to “The Civil Rights-Decolonization Continuum in Ralph Bunche’s Thoughts and  Actions”; “American/Negro/cosmopolitan-Ralph Bunche’s tripartite identity”; “Ralph Bunche’s Contribution to the Concept of  Peacekeeping.”

Mr. Saddler is Chair of the New York, Ralph Bunche Centenary Planning Committee and Chairman of the Federation of  Associations of Former International Civil Servants. He is formerly the President of the Association of Former International Civil Servants. He has also served at the U.S. State Department, the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United States Mission to the United Nations.

Ralph Bunche as pioneer, Bunche and colonialism, Bunche the internationalist.

Ben Keppel received his Ph.D from Ralph Bunche’s undergraduate alma mater, UCLA, in 1992. Currently is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and his teaching and research specialties are African-American History; the Mass Media and Social Change in 20^th Century America; and 20^th Century Cultural, Intellectual, and Political United States History. In his first book, The Work of Democracy, he explored Bunche’s   symbolic importance to early postwar American public life as a symbol of racial progress in the United States . He also analyzed the evolution of Bunche’s social thought between the late 1920s and early 1960s. 

Prof. Keppel can speak on a range of topics related to Ralph Bunche. He is especially qualified to speak on Bunche’s pre-UN career as well as the way in which he sought to use his international acclaim to advance the cause of human rights in the United States .   

Pearle Robinson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science at Columbia University, and specializes in such issue areas as Africa in the New International Order, African Politics, African Political Economy, African-American Politics.