George W. Shepherd Jr.
Professor
Emeritus
Josef
Korbel School of International Studies
University
of Denver
Current Address:
804
Meadow Run
Golden,
CO 80403
prof92@earthlink.net
Professional Experience
Professor Emeritus 1993 - present
Josef
Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Professor of International and African
Studies 1961-1993
Josef
Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Director 1988-1993
Center
on Human Rights Development (CORD), University of Denver
Director 1966-1972
Center
on International Race Relations, University of Denver
Senior Fellow 1977
- present
Phelps
Stokes Fund
President 1988-1997
Africa
Today Associates
Editor and Founder 1954-1988
Africa
Today
Assistant Professor of Political Science
and Director of Foreign 1958-1960
Service Project
St.
Olaf College
Lecturer of Political Science 1955-1958
Brooklyn
College
Executive Director 1953-1954
The
American Committee on Africa
Executive Director 1952-1953
The
Federation of Uganda African Farmers
Uganda,
British East Africa
Education
The London School of Economics and
Political Science, London University
Ph.D. in Political Science, 1952
University of Michigan
B.A., Political Science, Minor in
Economics, 1949
Major Publications
Currently in progress: Global Free Citizens Rising: From Ending Empires to Liberation in a Multi-polar World
They Are Us: Fifty Years of Human Rights Advocacy. Philadelphia: Xlibirs, 2002.
They Are Us: Fifty Years of Human Rights Advocacy. Philadelphia: Xlibirs, 2002.
Popular Politics: Renewing Democracy for
a Sustainable World. Westport, London: Praeger, 1998.
Partnership with Africa: A New American
Policy. New York: Phelps Stokes Fund, 1996.
Economic Justice in Africa: Adjustment
and Sustainable Development. Ed. with Karamo Soko. Westport, London: Greenwood Press, 1994.
World Debt and the Human Condition:
Structural Adjustment and the Right to Development.
Ed. with Ved Nanda and Eileen McCarthy Arnolds. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Effective Sanction Against South Africa. Ed. Timothy Mozirewa. New York: Praeger, 1991.
Racism and the Underclass: Studies in
Public Policy. Ed. with David Penna. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Emerging Human Rights: The African
Political Economy Context. Ed. with Mark O. Onikpo. Westport, London: Greenwood Press, 1990.
The Trampled Grass: Tributary States in
the Indian Ocean. New York, London: Praeger, 1987.
Third World Human Rights Development. Ed. with Ved Nanda. New York, London: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Global Human Rights. Ed. with Ved Nanda and James
Scarrit. Boulder: Westview Press, 1980.
Anti-Apartheid: Transnational Conflict
and Western Policy in the Liberation of South Africa. New York, London: Praeger, 1978.
Racial Influences on American Foreign
Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1971.
Race Among Nations: A Conceptual
Approach. Ed. with Tilden LeMelle, Cambridge: Lexington
Press, 1970.
The Politics of African Nationalism. New York: Praeger, 1962.
They Wait in Darkness. New York: John Day Co., 1955.
Other Publications
More
than 100 journal and magazine articles in political science, international
studies, third world quarterlies, African studies, and newspaper op-ed pieces
Awards and Services
Uganda 50th Independence Medal Award 2012
Advisory Board, 2001
International
Human Rights Advocacy Center, University of Denver
Distinguished Professor, 2000
Panel
on the Work of George W. Shepherd, International Studies Association, Los
Angeles
Board Member, 1992-1996
Phelps-Stokes
Fund, New York
The Aggrey Memorial Medal, 1996
Phelps-Stokes
Fund
The President’s Medal, 1988
Hunter
College (CUNY)
Chairman, 1987
Conference
on African Studies Association, Denver
Visiting Professor, 1987
University
of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Honorary Doctor of Law, 1986
Mercy
College, New York
Visiting Professor, 1980
Several
African and Asian universities
Visiting Scholar, 1974
UNITAR,
United Nations, New York
Visiting Professor, 1964-1965
University
of Khartoum with the Rockefeller Foundation
National Board Member, 1960
American
Committee on Africa
Founding Member, 1958
African
Studies Association
Co-recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Award
on Race Relations, 1956
Awarded
for the book, They Wait in Darkness
Executive Director, 1953-1954
American
Committee on Africa
