Johnathan White, Ph.D.

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Associate Teaching Professor, History
Co-Founder - Stewart and Jones Scholar Leadership Program
Main Building, 109
Office Hours listed in Biography.
Penn State Greater Allegheny, 4000 University Drive, McKeesport, PA 15132

Fall 2022 Semester


On-Campus Office Hours:

  • Monday - 12:05 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | 5:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
  • Wednesday - 12:05 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Educator. Artist. Minister. Freedom Writer—Freedom Fighter. Public Intellectual. Mentor. Worshipper.

Dr. Johnathan JeVon White was born in Norfolk, VA. He graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a B.A. in Political Science. He earned his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in modern U.S. and African American history. His dissertation examined the labor union of Pittsburgh’s black jazz musicians before and after integration, and how collective memory re-imagines the past. 

He is an Associate Teaching Professor at Penn State Greater Allegheny. He has taught courses in history, African American studies, black arts, and leadership development. He co-founded the Study of Hip-Hop Conference and the Stewart and Jones Scholar Leadership Program. He is a founding member of the Crossing Bridges committee which serves the surrounding community. In addition, he chairs the Racial Equity task force at PSUGA. He is also creator of the Black Woman Reaffirmed video project. His up coming album, Love Algorithms, is an eclectic mix of poetry, hip-hop, and spoken word.

He is a board member of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society. In addition, he served as lead instructor of the Full Armor Institute, mentoring young black men at Mt. Olive Baptist church. Lastly, he has conducted black history workshops and seminars on living a vibrant lifestyle that synthesizes faith and the pursuit of social justice.

Teaching Interests:: Modern US History; Black Studies; Radical Black Thought and Black Intellectual History; Black Artistic and Oral Expression; Hip-Hop and Revolution; Leadership Studies

Area(s) of Expertise : History; Black Studies; Leadership Studies; Critical Hip-Hop Analysis

African centered educational pedagogy

Black artistic expression and revolution

Sankofa studies: creating connective tissue between Black collective memory and black futurity. How do we learn from the pain of our past and create a black future inspired by the best elements of the legacies of the African diaspora

University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. - History (Power and Inequality field), 2020

University of Pittsburgh, MA. - U.S. History/Modern African-American studies, 2001

Clark Atlanta University, BA. - Political Science, 1996

AED 62
Main Building 206
Monday/Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
AFAM 152
Main Building 204
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 1:25 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
HIST 21
Frable Building 208
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 2:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
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Main Building 204
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.