Robert E. Weems, Jr.

Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
area: African American history
office: 114 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-9471
email: weemsr@missouri.edu

B.A. Western Illinois University, 1973
M.A. Boston University (Afro-American Studies), 1975
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (history), 1982
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987.

Professor Robert E. Weems, Jr.'s areas of academic specialization are African American History, African American Business and Economic History, African American Studies, and United States History.

At the University of Missouri-Columbia, he teaches the survey of African American history, an upper division course on African Americans in the twentieth-century, a graduate level research seminar in African American history, and a graduate level readings course on African American business and economic history. In 2001, Professor Weems, along with Professor Emeritus Arvarh E. Strickland, made an important contribution to national instruction in African American history with the publication (by Greenwood Publishers) of their well-received co-edited reference book: The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide.

Professor Weems is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of African American business and economic history. For a listing of some of his published works in this area, see Selected Publications (in Word). For a listing of some of his numerous speaking engagements related to African American business and economic history, see Selected Presentations (in Word). He is also the coordinator of the Black Business History Project, an effort to more fully document the history of African American commercial enterprises. For more information about this initiative, see Black Business History Project (in Word).

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Professor Weems

book jacket
The African American Experience