CORE FACULTY

Mark Helbling, Professor

Mark Helbling received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley (1960) and his PhD from the University of Minnesota (1972). His teaching and research interests include African American history and culture, the Harlem Renaissance, Cultural Theory, American Literature-Twentieth Century and America and Africa. In addition to teaching at the University of Hawaii (where he has received the Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching) he has taught as a Fulbright Scholar at the Faculte des Lettres (Tunis, Tunisia), the National University (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany). His most recent book is The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many, which won the Baldridge Prize given by the Hawaii History Honor Society of the American Historical Association. He has numerous chapters in various books ("African Art and the Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke, Melville Herskovits, Roger Fry and Albert C. Barnes" in Leonard Harris ed. The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke-1999, the most recent) and has published articles in numerous journals: Prospects, Ethnic Forum, Phylon, Research Studies, Polish Review, and Negro American Literature Forum as well as poetry and short stories. Professor Helbling has lectured in Europe, Asia, Canada and Africa. At present, he has just finished two articles--"The African American Response to Lindbergh's Flight to Paris" and "Alain Locke: Pragmatism and the Problematic of Personality in the Construction of Race"--and is working on a book on the African American Press and the Nineteen Twenties.