Harcourt Fuller

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Print and Online Media

• Author, “Putting King Charles III on British currency bucks a global trend to honor diverse national heroes on coins and bills” The Conversation, October 12, 2022
• Interviewed for article, “On the Money - Currency, History and Representation,” GSU Research Magazine, November 11, 2020
•  Wrote article, “Black Money Matters: Coins and Banknotes as Sources for African, Caribbean and British Imperial Histories,” US-UK Fulbright Commission, July 23, 2020
• Quoted in ‘A New Exhibition “Black Money” Shows Currencies From Around the World Featuring People of Color,’ ARTS ATL, November 27, 2018
• Quoted in ‘Con antorchas "como en los días del Ku Klux Klan": la polémica por la retirada de monumentos confederados en el sur de EE.UU. que se relacionan con la esclavitud’ (‘With torches "as in the days of the Ku Klux Klan": the controversy over the removal of Confederate monuments in the US south which are related to slavery’), BBC Mundo, May 17, 2017
• Quoted in “New Orleans Begins Removing Confederate Monuments, Under Police Guard,” The New York Times, April 24, 2017
• Wrote opinion editorial, “Who Was The First Woman Depicted on American Currency?” published in The Conversation and The Huffington Post, as well as in Motto/Time Magazine as “Harriet Tubman Won’t Be The First Woman on American Currency, But Her $20 Bill is Still Incredibly Significant,” April 22, 2016
• Quoted in “Shadows of the Past: Administrators are Increasingly Responding to Requests to Remove Tributes to Slave Owners, Confederate Rebels and Segregationists From Campuses,” The Chronicle of Higher Education and Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Special Issue, “Protests on Campus: A New Era of Activism,” (March 18, 2016): 10 – 15
• Quoted in “Historical Symbols in Midst of a ‘Purge Moment’,” The New York Times, September 1, 2015, A16
• Quoted in “L’Amérique Déboulonne ses Symboles” (America Debunks Its Symbols), Le Monde (France), December 26, 2015, 7
• Quoted in “Is Mississippi Ready to Pull Confederate Emblem From State Flag?” Christian Science Monitor, August 17, 2015
• Quoted in “With Confederate Flags at MLK Church, Fight for National Identity Persists,” Christian Science Monitor, July 31, 2015
• Wrote articles and opinion editorials for the Jamaica Gleaner; the Weekly Gleaner, North American Edition; New York Carib News; Caribbean Life, New York; and the Washington Report on the Hemisphere

Radio

• Interviewed by Emmy Award winning TV and radio journalist Lisa Rayam on Morning Edition, WABE 90.1 FM, Atlanta's NPR station – “History Through A New Medium: The Bank Note,” September 3, 2020
• Interviewed about Fulbright-sponsored book research on Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons on “The Guest Room - Sunny Side Up” radio program with host, Paula-Anne Porte Jones, Radio Jamaica Radio (RJR) 94 FM, May 22, 2018
• Interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)/Radio-Canada, for a story on Confederate monuments, August 15, 2017
• Interviewed about the Maroons on “Talking History” program with University of the West Indies-Mona Professor Verene Shepherd, Nationwide Radio 90 FM, Jamaica, January 7, 2017
• Interviewed on Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster, for program on “Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah: Visionary, Authoritarian Ruler and National Hero,” February 24, 2016
• Featured on United Nations Radio story, ‘Jamaican Maroon Story “Had to be Told”,’ October 23, 2015
• Lecture on “Slavery and Abolition in Peru” broadcast on WBUR 90.9 FM (Boston’s NPR radio station), “World of Ideas” program
• Interviewed on Atlanta radio stations, including WRFG 89.3FM, “The African Experience Worldwide;” WWWE 1100 AM; WATB 1420 AM; and WGFS1430 AM
• Interviewed on Radio Jamaica Radio (RJR) News, Jamaica

Television

• Interviewed on the Television Jamaica (TVJ) show “All Angles” with Dionne Jackson Miller, January 12, 2022
• Interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)/CBC Television, for a story on Confederate monuments, August 15, 2017
• Appeared on United Nations Web TV during World Premiere Screening of my documentary "Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess," October 19, 2015
• Interviewed on Channel 5 WCSC, Charleston, SC
• Interviewed on TeleMundo 47 WNJU, Fort Lee, New Jersey
• Interviewed on the Television Jamaica (TVJ) show “Profile with Ian Boyne,” Kingston, Jamaica

Blogs

• “Harcourt Fuller’s Jamaican Maroon Oral History Projects.” Oral History Association (OHA) Spotlight Blog, July 2017
• Quoted in “Money in a Bottle,” The 6th Floor: The Blog of The New York Times Magazine, June 12, 2013

Publications Monographs

• Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014

Co-Edited Books

• Catherine Eagleton, Harcourt Fuller and John Perkins, ed. Money in Africa. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 2009

Book Chapters

• “Artists, Activists and Ethno-Historians: Community Builders, Identity Creators and Civil Rights Pioneers in Afro-Peruvian Pueblos, 1800s – Present.” Chapter invited for publication in New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Unchartered Themes and Alternative Representations, edited by Rita Kiki Edozie, Glenn A. Chambers, and Tama Hamilton-Wray, 311 - 332. East Lansing: The Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series, Michigan State University Press, 2018
• “Atomic Africa: Modernization, Technological Nationalism and ‘Scientific Standstill’ in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana & Beyond, 1957 – Present.” In Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972: A Controversial African Visionary, edited by Bea Lundt and Christoph Marx, 185-203. Volume in a companion book series to the journal Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke Gesellschaft. Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016
• “From Cowries to Coins: Money and Colonialism in the Gold Coast and British West Africa in the Early 20th Century.” In Money in Africa, edited by Catherine Eagleton, Harcourt Fuller, and John Perkins, 54-61. London: British Museum Research Publications, 2009

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Harcourt Fuller and Jada Benn Torres. “Investigating the ‘Taíno’ Ancestry of the Jamaican Maroons: A New Genetic (DNA), Historical and Multidisciplinary Analysis and Case Study of the Accompong Town Maroons.” The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 43, no. 1 (2018): 47-78
• “Father of the Nation: Ghanaian Nationalism, Internationalism and the Political Iconography of Kwame Nkrumah, 1957 – 2010.” African Studies Quarterly 16, no.1 (December 2015): 39-75
• “Commemorating an African Queen: Ghanaian Nationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Public Memory of Nana Yaa Asantewaa, 1952 – 2009.” African Arts 47, no.4 (Winter 2014): 58-71
• “Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor: Kwame Nkrumah, Symbolic Nationalism and the Iconography of Ghanaian Money, 1957 – the Golden Jubilee." Nations and Nationalism 14, no.3 (July 2008): 520-541

Invited Articles in Refereed Journals

• “Maroon History, Music and Sacred Sounds in the Americas: A Jamaican Case.” In "Africana Religious Music & Sacred Sound," edited by Sylvester A. Johnson and Edward E. Curtis IV. Roundtable, Journal of Africana Religions 5, no. 2. (July 2017): 275-282
  Invited Articles in Refereed Online Encyclopedias
• “Kwame Nkrumah." In “Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History,” ed. Thomas Spear. Oxford University Press. In-progress

Invited Book Reviews

• Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica, by Jean Besson. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 92, no. 1 (2018): 118 - 119

Non-Academic Works Edited/Introduced

• Wrote Foreword for Abebi, a Maroon historical novel written by Gillian Lee-Fong. New York: Diasporic Africa Press, 2017