Sekh Ra Maat, PhD
A proud graduate of Temple University鈥檚 Department of Africology and African American Studies, the first Ph.D.听 program in the discipline, Sekh Ra Maat is an African-centered theorist and educator concerned with transforming the consciousness of students.听 As ancestor Nana Baffour Amankwatia II (Asa Hilliard) reminds us, the education process for humanity must be about the business of preparing students to understand themselves as divinely inspired beings who have the capacity to create their reality and transform themselves; and by doing so, bring about justice in the universe.听 Education, especially within the discipline of Africana Studies, is therefore a sacred process.听 Instructors and students begin to understand themselves in relationship to the universe for the sole purpose of recognizing their creative potential through which to fulfill our life鈥檚 destiny as agents of change for the liberation of humanity.
Contact
207 Elliott Hall,听 cmcalli1@tnstate.edu
Education
PhD, Africology and African American Studies, Temple University
MAR, Religious Thought, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
MA, Africana Studies, State University of New York-Albany
BA, Film Studies/African American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Courses Taught
Introduction to Africana Studies, African Spiritual Philosophy I & II, African Diaspora, Psychological Impact of Enslavement and Colonization
Research Interests
Africana religion and philosophy; African-centered theory and methodology; Asantean Afrocentric philosophy; Africana queer theory; African/Black psychology
Selected Publications
Maat, Sekhmet., ed. A College Introduction to African-centered Theory: Selected Readings in Africana Studies. San Diego: Cognella, 2022.
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淏ruce Nugent.鈥� In The Harlem Renaissance: An Encyclopedia of Arts, Culture, and History, edited by Venetria K. Patton and Kwakiutl L. Dreher. Santa Barbara, CA.:ABC-CLIO, Inc., accepted and forthcoming, 2024.
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淭oward Africana Queer Theory in Africana Studies: The Case for African Cosmology.鈥� In Transformations in Africana Studies: History, Theory and Epistemology, edited by Adebayo Oyebade. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Ringer, Andrea, Sekhmet Maat, and A. Hannibal Leach. 鈥淎 Century of Africana Studies Programs on Black Campuses: Creating a Multimodal Collaborative Africana Studies Digital Project at HBCUs.鈥� In Transformations in Africana Studies: History, Theory and Epistemology, edited by Adebayo Oyebade. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Adebayo, Oyebade and Sekhmet Maat. 鈥淎fricana Studies and Theory Building: Selected Bibliography on Afrocentricity.鈥� In Transformations in Africana Studies: History, Theory and Epistemology, edited by Adebayo Oyebade. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Ringer, Andrea, and Sekhmet Maat. 鈥�(Re)establishing the Bachelor of Science Degree in Africana Studies at 91制片厂: An Institutional Report.鈥� Siyabonana: The Journal of Africana Studies. 1, no.1 (Winter/January 2023)
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淎nunian Cosmology.鈥� In A College Introduction to African-centered Theory: Selected Readings in Africana Studies, edited by Sekhmet Maat. San Diego: Cognella, 2022.
Maat, Sekhmet and Shelby Ray Pumphrey. 鈥淭he Origins of Africana Studies: A Brief History of a Scholar Activist Tradition.鈥� In Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience, 2nd edition, edited by Joshua Farrington, Norman Powell, etal., 283-326. Richmond: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries OER, 2022.
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淒evelopment of the Field of Africana Studies.鈥� In Africana World in Perspective: An Introduction to Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Michael Mwenda Kithinji. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 2020, 2021.
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淟ooking Back at the Evolution of James Cone鈥檚 Theological Anthropology: A Brief Commentary.鈥� Religions 10, no. 11 (October 2019).
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淭owards an African-centered Approach to Africana Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersexed, Identities and Desire: The Kemetic Model of the Cosmological Interactive Self.鈥� Critical Sociology, 40, no. 2. (online 2012, volume March 2014): 239-256.
Maat, Sekhmet and Karanja Keita Carroll. 鈥淎frican-centered Theory and Methodology in Africana Studies: An Introduction.鈥� The Journal of Pan African Studies, 5 no. 4. (June 2012): 1-11.
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淲ords of Wisdom: An Interview with African-centered Psychologist Linda James Myers.鈥� The Journal of Pan African Studies, 3. no. 8. (June 2010):194-203.
Maat, Sekhmet. 鈥淎n Essay on God as the Bicameral Mind: Implications for Africological Research.鈥� The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2 no 2. (March 2008): 28-43.