Name: Adolphus Belk
Title: Professor of Political Science
Education: Ph.D., Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
M.A., Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
B.A., African-American Studies and Political Science, Syracuse University
Office: 332 Bancroft Hall
Phone: 803/323-4581
E-mail: belka@winthrop.edu
Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/belka
Area(s): American Government, Race and Ethnic Politics in the U.S., the Politics of Mass
Incarceration, Public Policy
Dr. Adolphus Belk, Jr. is a professor of Political Science and African American Studies who joined Winthrop in 2003. His teaching and research interests include Black politics, race and ethnic politics, crime and mass imprisonment, social welfare policy, and Hip-Hop.
His work has been published in The Journal of Race and Policy; Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society; The Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis and Research; National Review of Black Politics; and by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He has also collaborated with Dr. Scott Huffmon on projects for the Center for Public Opinion & Policy Research, which conducts the widely respected Winthrop Poll.
Finally, Belk and Dr. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey (WU Class of 2004) are the editors of For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice (University of Michigan Press, 2022).