Ray Winbush, Ph.D.
Director of Fisk University | Race Relations Institute

• Benjamin Hooks Professor of Social Justice
  Fisk University

• Director, Race Relations Institute
  Fisk University

• Former Assistant Provost/Director
  Johnson Black Cultural Center Vanderbilt University

• Consultant & Web Site Curator
  Encyclopaedia Africana Project - Accra, Ghana, West Africa

• Founding Partner
  The HOLDINGS Project - Holding Our Library Documents Insures Nobility, Greatness & Strength
  

Education

A native of Cleveland Ohio.
A product of public school education. 

In 1970, he graduated with honors in psychology from Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, and during his undergraduate education there, won scholarships to both Harvard and Yale Universities. 

After graduation he won a fellowship to the University of Chicago and received both his Masters and Ph.D. in psychology in 1973 and 1976 respectively.

From 1973 to 1980, Dr. Winbush taught at Oakwood College and Alabama A & M University in Huntsville before coming to Vanderbilt University in the fall of that year. At Vanderbilt he held an adjunct professorship in the Department of Psychology. 

Accomplishments   

• 1997: The HOLDINGS Project  
  Holding Our Library Documents Insures Nobility, Greatness & Strength [HOLDINGS] is a long-term initiative designed to preserve valuable, one-of-a-kind historical records and artifacts which document the early African-American experience. On May 21, 1997, the launching of the HOLDINGS Project was announced in Chicago, Illinois.
  

• 1997: "National Dialogue on Race"  
  A recently received five-year $2.6 million grant from the Kellogg Foundation will establish a "National Dialogue on Race" that will create regional conversations on the most troubling issue of our times: Race Relations.
  

• 1996: Ghana Research Fellowship  
  Studied the last two years of Du Bois' life in Accra, Ghana, West Africa and his work with the Encyclopaedia Africana. An article published in the Independence Day 40th Anniversary issue of Ghana Review International, UK, examines Du Bois' motivation and collaboration with President Kwame Nkrumah regarding this monumental work. 
  

Professional Consultant   

• Association of Black Culture Centers
  Former President of the Southern Region

• Encyclopaedia Africana Project
  Grant Writer &Technical Consultant

• Ford Foundation

• Fisk University - Director, Race Relations Institute
  

• The HOLDINGS Project - Founding Partner
  

• National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) - Executive Boardmember
  

• National Research Council