Portrait of Dr. Jermaine Scott

Jermaine Scott, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

History

Boca Raton Campus

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th-Century African America
  • African Diaspora, Black Politics and Culture
  • Race and Sport

Jermaine Scott came to FAU from the University of Virginia as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. His research interests include the cultural politics of sport, Black politics, Black diaspora studies, Black popular culture, and postcolonial studies. His forthcoming manuscript, Black Soccer: Football and Politics in the African Diaspora, seeks to understand how Black footballers used the sport as a diasporic site of Black politics, renegotiating their relationship to the nation-state. His writings have been included in ESPN���s The Undefeated, the African American Intellectual History Society���s Black Perspectives, and the Journal of Sports History.

Jermaine teaches courses on African American and African Diaspora History and Sports History

COURSES

Undergraduate Courses

American Sports

African-American History

Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request )

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

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