Career
He is a frequent commentator on CSPAN, National Public Radio, and Public Broadcasting Service"s NewsHour. He has also appeared on National Broadcasting Company"s Morning Joe, and the Colbert Report. He is the recipient of a number of fellowships, and most recently at the Hutchins Center at the West.E.B. du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University.
Joseph has served on the faculties of the University of Rhode Island, State University of New York—Stony Brook, and Brandeis University.
In 2009, together with Arizona State University Foundation Professor Matthew C. Whitaker at Arizona State University, Joseph founded the Barack Obama Conference on American Democracy (BOAD), this spring celebrating its fifth year. In the fall of 2013, he founded the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) at Tufts University.
Currently, Joseph is the director of the CSRD and a Professor of History at Tufts. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Joseph was born and raised in New New York
His mother, a Haitian immigrant to the United States, was a major influence on his current work. Because of her, Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) and other like leaders were household names during Joseph"s upbringing. Also because of her, he was raised speaking and remains fluent in Haitian Creole.
Joseph finished high school at age 16, and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Africana Studies and European History.
He received a Ph.
