Charles V. Carnegie

Charles V. Carnegie "recent work focuses on identity categories and on issues of nationalism and transnationalism. He is the author of Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (Rutgers University Press, 2002), co-editor with Samuel Martinez of "Crossing Borders of Language and Culture," a theme issue of Small Axe (No. 19, 2006), and editor of Afro-Caribbean Villages in Historical Perspective (African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica, 1987). His essays and reviews have appeared in various edited collections and scholarly journals.  Professor Carnegie served as director of the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica from 1987 – 1991 and since coming to Bates has led several study abroad programs in Jamaica. He serves on the editorial board of Transforming Anthropology, as a member of the editorial collective of the Caribbean journal of criticism, Small Axe (Duke University Press). He is currently Chair of the Program in African American Studies at Bates." CV


 * Member, Executive Committee of the Association for Bahá’í Studies (2001-)

Grants and Fellowships

 * Ford Foundation grant for the Diasporic Knowledges project, 2003-2007
 * Ford Foundation planning grant for the project, “Diasporic Knowledges: Ethnicities and Genders in the New World” being undertaken by the Small Axe Collective, 2002
 * Bates College Faculty Development Fund, 2001
 * Akers Sabbatical Leave Support Grant, Bates College, 1999-2000
 * Special Faculty Grant, Bates College, sabbatical leave support, 1999-2000
 * Roger C. Schmutz Faculty Research Grant, Bates College, 1999
 * National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1996-1997
 * Roger C. Schmutz Faculty Research Grant, Bates College, 1994
 * United States Information Agency, International Visitors Program, 1987
 * Wenner-Gren Foundation research grant, 1985
 * Social Science Research Council research grant, 1984
 * National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Univ. of Virginia, 1983
 * Johns Hopkins University fellowship, 1980-81
 * Organization of American States travel grant, 1980
 * Ford Foundation research fellowship, 1978-79
 * Ford Foundation fellowship, 1976-78
 * Johns Hopkins University fellowship, Program in Atlantic History and Culture, 1975-76
 * Cornell University scholarship, 1972-75