Seth Markle is the newest faculty member to join the Department of History and International Studies at Trinity.  He is currently completing his dissertation at New York University.  From 1998 to 2002, Markle was the co-founder and co-Director of The Nia Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to youth leadership development, grassroots community organizing and popular political education.  His current research project examines how socialist state formation in Tanzania (East Africa) shaped the transnational practices and diasporic identities of Black radicals from the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. 

Seth Markle's courses on Africa are taught through an interdisciplinary lens, with emphasis on the critical interrogation of personal memoirs, oral histories, film, fiction, photography and music.  In an effort to challenge the prevailing negative stereotypes and myths still associated with the peoples and cultures of the African continent, Markle seeks to impress upon his students the multi-layered dimensions of African agency and Africa's contributions to the making of the modern world.