Don Harrell is a native of Chesapeake, Virginia and a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he was awarded the Union College UNITAS Diversity and Community Award, and the University of California, Los Angeles where he received the African American Student Association’s Outstanding Graduate Fellow Award and a University of California Education Abroad Program Fellowship, which enabled him to attend the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies and study and travel with the Ghana Dance Ensemble.
Professor Harrell-a storyteller who engages through a wide variety of mediums has taught or is teaching The Music of Africa, African American Musical Heritage, African Drumming and Dance, and Meeting the Needs of African American Males at Coastal Carolina University; African Drumming and Dance at Columbia College; African American Humanities, and The Hip-Hop Journey at Valencia College; Introduction to Africana Studies, Black American Intellectual Thought, and The ... view more »
Don Harrell is a native of Chesapeake, Virginia and a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he was awarded the Union College UNITAS Diversity and Community Award, and the University of California, Los Angeles where he received the African American Student Association’s Outstanding Graduate Fellow Award and a University of California Education Abroad Program Fellowship, which enabled him to attend the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies and study and travel with the Ghana Dance Ensemble.
Professor Harrell-a storyteller who engages through a wide variety of mediums has taught or is teaching The Music of Africa, African American Musical Heritage, African Drumming and Dance, and Meeting the Needs of African American Males at Coastal Carolina University; African Drumming and Dance at Columbia College; African American Humanities, and The Hip-Hop Journey at Valencia College; Introduction to Africana Studies, Black American Intellectual Thought, and The Evolution of Hip-Hop at the University of Central Florida; Introduction to African American Studies, and The Evolution of Hip-Hop at Florida Institute of Technology; and African Mythology, and The Evolution of Hip-Hop at Ringling College of Art and Design.
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