Cynthia Ann Young (born 1969) is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, and head of the Department of African American Studies, at

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. Prior to her work at Penn State she was on the faculty of

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, where she directed the African and African Diaspora Studies Program. She authored ''Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left'' (Duke University Press, 2006). She was a contributor to the exhibition ''Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties''.

Education

Young has a BA in English from

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, where she was a

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scholar, and a PhD in American studies from

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Living people American academics of English literature Boston College faculty Pennsylvania State University faculty 1969 births Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni {{US-English-academic-bio-stub Columbia College (New York) alumni