Katherine Bankole-Medina is a Professor of History (and former history department chairperson) at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked in faculty and administrative positions at Kean University, the University of Virginia, Xavier University (New Orleans), and West Virginia University. She is a scholar of African American and United States history, African American Studies, Africalogy, Race Relations, Black Women, and Slavery and Medicine Studies. Dr. Bankole-Medina has published numerous scholarly articles on these subjects, including her book, Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana. Her research and scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Black Studies, Plantation Society and Race Relations (edited by Thomas J. Durant and J. David Knottnerus), Afrocentricidade: Uma Abordagem Epistemologica Inovadora (edited by Elisa Larkin Nascimento); Handbook of Black Studies (edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga) and Malcolm X A Historical Reader (edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. and James Smallwood). She served on the Editorial Board of The Encyclopedia of Black Studies (edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, Los Angeles: Sage, 2005). Since 2004 she has worked as the founding editor of Africalogical Perspectives: Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Race and Africana Studies. She is also co-editor of the series Women of African Descent and Justice and World Societies (with Abena Lewis-Mhoon and Stephanie Yarbough). Her most recent publications include an article on African American women’s studies, the life and legacy of Fannie Jackson Coppin, and on Charles Hamilton Houston. Her current research focuses on antebellum medical racism and contemporary analysis of the 2015 Baltimore Uprising. The recipient of numerous scholarship, teaching and service awards, Dr. Bankole-Medina was twice named most influential person in the state of West Virginia. She is a recipient of the Judith Stitzel Endowment Award for teaching and research, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Scholarship, The Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference Award for Editorial Excellence, and she was selected for the first Distinguished Senior Faculty Research grant awarded by Coppin State University. Dr. Bankole-Medina’s additional training includes certification in Conflict Mediation (Racial/Ethnic Conflict); and she was also recently awarded the Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning from the Online Learning Consortium OLC (formerly the Sloan-C Consortium). Dr. Bankole-Medina currently teaches a variety of university courses/seminars (face-to-face and online) including World History, U.S. History, African American History, African American Intellectual History, Introduction to Latin American History, History of the Middle East, Methods of Historical Research, and the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Dr. Bankole-Medina’s occasional Blog and YouTube channel History is a State of Mind engages students and the general public. She is an Executive Board member of the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement, a life member of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) and the Association for the study of African American Life and History (ASALAH), and a fellow of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute (MKAI) in Philadelphia. Dr. Bankole-Medina has been interviewed by numerous radio stations, print news outlets (the Baltimore Sun, the Times-Picayune, and the Dominion Post), and on television (CNN [Fox and Friends] and NBC and CBS news affiliates). She is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. (BA) and Temple University in Philadelphia (MA and PhD).