George Junne

Faculty

Email George.Junne@unco.edu
Phone (970) 351-2418
Location University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO 80639
Address Candeleria Hall, Room 0140E
Office Hours MWF 1:20-2:20 pm by appointment
George Junne Portrait

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Michigan
  • M.A. University of Michigan
  • BFA University of Michigan

Professional Experience & Affiliations

  • From May 2005, Professor of Africana Studies, UNC
  • From May 1999 to May 2005, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, UNC
  • From 1992 to 1993, Lecturer in Black Studies, UNC
  • From 1988 to 1993, Lecturer in Afroamerican Studies, CU-Boulder
  • Current from 2000, Visiting Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul
  • Since 1981, fossil collector for the University of Michigan

Research Expertise & Interests

  • African Americans in the Civil War
  • African Americans in Colorado
  • Blacks and the Ottoman Empire
  • Red/Black Indians
  • Dearfield, Colorado
  • Blacks in WW1

Publications

  • The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Power in the Courts of the Sultan, 2016 (in press)
  • A History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Colored Infantry of the Civil War, 2012
  • “Colorado” in The Modern Civil Rights Movement in the American West, 2016 (in Press)
  • “Denver in the Harlem Renaissance” in Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negro’s Western Experience, 2011.
  • “Dearfield, Colorado: Black Farming Success in the Jim Crow Era,” in Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of the Colorado Borderlands, 2011.

Honors & Awards

  • Me and the Dream Exhibit and Program Award, Denver Urban Spectrum, 2015
  • Harrell L. Strimple Award, The Paleontology Society, 2012
  • Paul Stewart Award, Black American West Museum, 2012