BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Ngozi Caleb Kamalu

Professor of Political Science

Fayetteville State University

1200 Murchison Road

Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301

Telephone: 910-672-1367
Fax: 910-672-1090/ 910-672-2188

Email: nkamalu@uncfsu.edu

 

 Ngozi Caleb Kamalu is Professor and Coordinator of the MA Program in Political Science at Fayetteville State University. Professor Kamalu received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics with a Minor in Political Science from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. Upon graduation in 1981, he enrolled in the same university where he received his Master of Public Administration and Policy degree in May, 1983. As part of his practicum, he interned at the Division of Planning and Accounting, City of Houston. In the fall of the same year, he was admitted into the Doctoral program at Howard University in Washington D.C., to pursue a Ph.D. in Political Science. In 1988, Dr. Kamalu was conferred with a doctorate. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled, Soviet and American positions on the Law of the Sea. Prior to graduation, Dr. Kamalu was a Teaching and Research Fellow at Howard University. Dr. Kamalu also served as a Research Assistant at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C., under the supervision of noted Scholar and Diplomat Dr. Francis Deng. Upon graduation at Howard University, Dr. Kamalu was hired in the department as a lecturer.

 In August 1990, Dr. Kamalu joined the faculty of the Department of Political Science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Kamalu has extensive teaching experience. He has taught in adjunct capacities at North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, Shaw University- Cape, Fayetteville, North Carolina and Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

In 1994, Dr. Kamalu accepted a teaching position at Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, N.C. as an Associate Professor. In 1997, Dr. Kamalu received the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Research and Publication at FSU. In 1998, Dr. Kamalu was tenured at the rank of Full Professor. Dr. Kamalu is a member of the Undergraduate and Graduate Faculty.

 Dr. Kamalu serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research Methodology and African Studies, Washington, DC. and the Sierra Leone Review: A Quarterly Journal of Policy Studies and Culture, the Sierra Leone Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC. In addition, he has served as Text-Book and/ or Manuscript Reviewer for Longman Publishers, North West Publishing Company., Houghton Mifflin Company, Peter Lang Publishing, inc., and Dushki /McGraw-Hill.

 Dr. Kamalu’s land breaking article titled “Redistricting in North Carolina: An Overview of Emerging Judicial Decisions and Doctrines,” was published in North Carolina Political Review, May-June 2002. This article was extensively relied on and quoted by the Nationalist Movement in the famous Supreme Court Case, Beatrice Branch et al V. John Robert Smith, et al. (2002). The case over the Mississippi Congressional Redistricting plan was on appeal from the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi to the United States Supreme Court.

 Professor Kamalu was a member of the team of visitors that represented the University of North Carolina System on a trip to Barden-Wurttenburg, Germany June 12-19, 2004. While at the University of Mannheim, the host university, Professor Kamalu also visited the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart and the University of Konstanz located at lake Constance.

 On May 12, 2006, Professor Kamalu was conferred with the Board of Governors’ Award for excellence in Teaching in Chapel Hill. This award in teaching is the highest bestowed on any professor at the University of North Carolina System.

 Dr. Kamalu also received another award, the Special Recognition of the Year Award from the Cumberland Regional Improvement Corporation Board of Directors and Staff on Thursday September 7, 2006 at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Dr. Kamalu has published numerous scholarly articles in peer review Journals and authored a number of book reviews and chapters. In fact, he is the author of more than twenty published articles in peer-reviewed scholarly Journals. His scholarly works have appeared in numerous publications. They include but not limited to the following: Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (2006);Journal of Third World Studies (2006); Interdisciplinary Social Work Journal (2005); The Western Journal of Black Studies (2004); Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians (2004); Towson State Journal of International Affairs (2003, 2001, 1996, 1995,1994,); North Carolina Political Review (2002); Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives (19960); African Journal of Languages and Linguistics (1996); Journal of Research Methodology and African Studies (1997); Research Review (1994); The Sierra Leone Review (1994, 1993, 1992); Journal of Third World Studies (1994); Comparative State Politics (1991); Conflict: An International Journal (1990); Coexistence (1990) and India Quarterly (1989).

  Dr. Kamalu holds membership with many professional societies: Association of Third World Studies, National Association of Black Political Scientists, South-Eastern Regional Seminar for African Studies, American Political Science Association, International Political Science Association, International Studies Association, American Society of Public Administration, National Association of African American Studies, and African Studies Association.