Biography
Stephen G. Hall, Ph.D. is an editor and trained historian. Deeply interested in the tangible and practical
meanings of the Humanities in public life, Hall is currently the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Historianspeaks. Historianspeaks is a dynamic web platform devoted to making Black History accessible to the public. The platform consists of a weekly blog and podcast as well visual elements (photos and videos). To date, the platform has published more than 505 blogs on all facets of the Black experience. Previously, Hall served as Section Editor for The North Star, an online newspaper. In this capacity he worked with contributors on issues of race, gender, and class as well as social justice, equity, discrimination and civil rights. He wrote over sixty (60) articles (Breaking News and Op-Eds) on a wide variety of topics in these areas. Hall also serves as a Special Editor and staff writer for Bavual, The African Heritage Magazine. In addition, he has contributed to The Cleveland Call and Post. He has also made regular appearances on WEAA Radio (Morgan State University) and as a guest speaker in numerous communication forums.
As a trained historian, Hall has extensive experience as a professor, researcher, editor, manuscript and
article reviewer, author, presenter, administrator, and a historical consultant. In 2017-2018, Hall was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle, North Carolina where he worked on his second book manuscript exploring the scholarly production of black historians on the African Diaspora from 1885-1960, tentatively titled "Global Visions: African Historians Engage the World, 1885-1960." Hall formerlyserved as the History Program Coordinator at Alcorn State University (HBCU) in Lorman, MS. For the past twenty years, he has taught a wide variety of courses in his areas of expertise. Hall is the author
of A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth America published
by the University of North Carolina Press, 2009, which appeared in the John Hope Franklin Series in
African American History and Culture. His scholarly work has appeared in the William and Mary
Quarterly, the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Journal of the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era. Hall’s work has also appeared in numerous online publications include Black
Perspectives and Public Books.
In addition to traditional academic work, Hall maintains an active presence on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr. On these sites, Hall actively engages the public on a wide variety of historical, social, political,
and cultural topics germane to Public Humanities.
He has received numerous awards and grants for his scholarly work including a National Humanities Fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, NEH Fellowship and a W.E.B DuBois Fellowship at Harvard University and the Carter G. Woodson Fellowship from Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL). In Spring 2015, Hall served as a Humanities Writ Large Fellow and Visiting Professor in the History Department at Duke University.
He is currently working on an edited book titled “History as A Communal Act, under contract with
Routledge Press and several co-edited scholarly books. Hall is proud graduate of the Honors Program at
Morgan State University (HBCU) where he received a BA in History. He received an MA in African
American Studies with a concentration in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in
History at the Ohio State University.