Program Director
Percy Hintzen, Professor
Phone: 510.642.0393
Email: phintzen@berkeley.edu
Percy C. Hintzen was born in Guyana, South America. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Political Sociology from Yale University, and is a professor in the Department of African American Studies, where he has taught since 1979.Ê In 2006-2007 Dr. Hintzen served as the president of the Caribbean Studies Association, the international organization of scholars and professionals working in and on the Caribbean. He was, that same year, acting director of the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley. Dr. Hintzen served as the chair of the Department of African American Studies for eight years, and as the director of Department of Peace and Conflict Studies for two years. His principal areas of research are political and economic development of the Global South and black immigrant populations throughout the world, with particular focus on the post-colonial political economies of the Caribbean. His publications include: The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad; West Indian in the West: Self-representations in an Immigrant Community; and Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States, as well as numerous articles in journals and chapters in edited volumes. Dr. Hintzen teaches courses on political and economic development, African and Caribbean political economy, comparative race and ethnic relations, and quantitative and qualitative research methods.