Dr. George Junne, Jr. is a professor in Africana Studies. He has been a UNC faculty member since 1994. He is also treasurer of the National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES) and a former editor for the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) journal. Dr. Junne’s most recent publications are Blacks in the American West and Beyond—America, Canada, and Mexico: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography (2000) and The History of Blacks in Canada: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography (2003). During the summers of 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006, he was visiting professor of African American Literature and Film at Bogazici University in Istanbul. For twenty-six years, each summer Dr. Junne has been a fossil collector and director of operations for paleontology field camps for the University of Michigan and Albion College.
