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Tony Martin (February 21, 1942 – January 17, 2013)〔("Professor Tony Martin Dies at 70" ), Trinidad and Tobago News, January 17, 2013.〕 was a Trinidad-born professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. He retired in June 2007 as professor emeritus after 34 years teaching at the Africana Studies Department, where he was a founding member. He was a lecturer and author of scholarly articles about Black History, primarily the Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, and his written works and statements regarding Jewish involvement in the American slave trade, which echo allegations made by the Nation of Islam, have been a source of ongoing controversy. ==Life and academic credentials== Born Anthony Martin in Port of Spain, Trinidad, he attended Tranquillity School, where he was a contemporary of Stokely Carmichael.〔Prof. Tony Martin, ("Kwame Turé: Tribute to a Departed Pan-Africanist" ), USAfricaOnline.〕 After secondary school Martin went to England to study law at Gray's Inn, London, where he was called to the Bar in 1966.〔Christopher Carrico, ("Insurgent Anthropologies: A Dialogue with Pan-African Historian Dr Tony Martin" ), August 8, 2010.〕〔("Anthony C. Martin, Ph.D. (History)", Faculty Emeritus, Wellesley College. )〕 Martin subsequently received a B.Sc. honours degree in economics at the University of Hull (1968). He taught briefly in Trinidad at the Cipriani Labour College and St. Mary's College, before moving to the United States in 1969 to pursue graduate studies in African History at Michigan State University, earning an M.A. and completing his Ph.D in 1973. His doctoral dissertation, on Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, would be the basis for the book he later published as ''Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association''.〔 Martin was founder and chair of the Africana Studies Department at Wellesley College, where he began teaching in 1973, became tenured in 1975, and became a full professor in 1979.〔(The Majority Press website ), accessed April 18, 2010.〕 He also taught at the University of Michigan-Flint and was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, Brown University, and Colorado College, and also spent a year as an honorary research fellow at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.〔("Dr. Tony Martin, the Premier Scholar Of Marcus Garvey Has Died" ), ''Caribbean Events'', February 8, 2013.〕 Martin was a prolific author of scholarly articles on many aspects of Black History and lectured all over the world. He received awards and honors from the American Philosophical Society, the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and many others.〔(Dr. Tony Martin's website ), accessed April 18, 2010.〕 Martin also wrote, compiled or edited 14 books, most recently ''Caribbean History: From Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present'' (2012) and ''Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies'' (2007). He had been working on two further biographies of Trinidadian women, of Audrey Jeffers (who was his aunt)〔 and Kathleen Davis (also known as “Aunty Kay”).〔(Biographical notes, Michigan State University. )〕 Martin died unexpectedly on January 17, 2013, aged 70, at Westshore Medical Hospital, Cocorite, Trinidad.〔("Martin, Professor Anthony", Death Notices ), ''Trinidad & Tobago Guardian'', January 24, 2013.〕〔Zahra Gordon, ("Prof Tony Martin dies at 70" ), ''Trinidad & Tobago Guardian'', January 19, 2013.〕〔("Professor Tony Martin Dies at 70" ), Trinicenter.com, January 17, 2012.〕〔("Celebrated Marcus Garvey Historian, Dr. Tony Martin, Dies in Trinidad" ), ''Atlanta Black Star'', January 24, 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Martin (professor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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