Kamasi Hill, Ph.D. is a historian, theologian, art curator, filmmaker, and educator who has been teaching high school students for the past 28 years. He was born and raised on the West side of Detroit by parents who were curators of the Black arts, both visual and musical. He attended Howard University and graduated with a degree in Film Production. He moved to Chicago in 2004 and attended Northwestern University and received his PhD in Religion and Historical Studies. He has been collecting from contemporary artists of African descent for the past 15 years and has amassed over 300 pieces of original African and African-American art.
Dr. Hill has been teaching AP courses for the past 15 years and serves on the development committee for the AP African-American Studies course. Finally, as a comic book fan, Dr. Hill is creating a series of non-fiction graphic novels to help reorient students to the power of literacy and imagination.
Kamasi Hill is teaching one workshop at Augsburg this summer. See our registration site with the button below.