Hewitt, Cynthia L.

Cynthia M. Hewitt, PH.D.

Morehouse College

Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division Faculty
  • Avalon Professor of Sociology
  • Director of the International Comparative Labor Studies Program
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Education
  • Brown University
    Bachelor of Arts
  • Howard University
    Master of Arts
  • Emory University
    Doctor of Philosophy
Dr. Cynthia Hewitt is the Avalon Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Comparative Labor Studies Program (ICLS) at Morehouse College.

Dr. Hewitt is also a member of the faculty of the African American Studies Program and the sustainability minor. She was the founding director of Morehouse Pan-African Global Experience (MPAGE) study abroad program. Her areas of specialization are the political economy of the world-system; race/class/gender inequality; sustainable development and environmental sociology.

Dr. Hewitt’s publications address Pan-African unification as solutions to the marginalization of African heritage people. Her studies include brain circulation and reparation for slavery.

Dr. Hewitt’s current research and projects focus on the historical and contemporary impact of matriarchal and patriarchal authority structures; worker organizing for collective bargaining and unions; employee ownership; and learning-while-learning digital education to address secondary education-for-all in Africa.

Dr. Hewitt earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Brown University in 1978, a  Master of Arts in sociology from Howard University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Emory University in 1997.

Contact:

Email
cynthia.hewitt@morehouse.edu

Office Location
Wheeler Hall, Room 207

Phone
(470) 639-0619

Office Hours
TBD

Courses:
  • HSOC 105- Organizing for Social Justice: Unions and Black Workers
  • HSOC 406- Sustainability and Development
  • HSOC 360- Pan-Africanism as Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Publications & Presentations

Economic Justice: The Untapped Power of Georgia’s Public Sector Workers

By Algernon Austin, PhD, Cynthia Hewitt, PhD, Allan M. Freyer, PhD, Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Marc Bayard | 2022, Morehouse College International Comparative Labor Studies 
“Karl Marx’s Prescient Theory of Centralization of Capital, Crisis, and an Nkrumahist Response.” in Karl Marx, Life, Ideas, Influences, A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary.

Cynthia M. Hewitt| 2019, Patna, India: Asian Development Research Institute.
“Historically Black Colleges and Universities Team Up with Africana Unionists For the U.N. Decade for People of African Descent to Address Digital African-Africana Education for All,” in The Global African Worker

Cynthia M. Hewitt | 2019, The Global African Worker Institute
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