5th Floor, Room 536
2500 W North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21216
Sundjata ibn Hyman currently serves Coppin State University as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Prior to joining the Coppin faculty, Dr. ibn Hyman worked as Lead Care Coordinator and Case Manager in Veterans Services for Volunteers of America SELA while completing an MSW at the Millie M. Charles School of Social Work at Southern University at New Orleans.
A U.S. Marine who served with distinction at various American Embassies in Africa (Mali, Kenya, Cote d’Ivorie), Dr. ibn Hyman previously held appointments as Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences at several HBCUs, including Lane College, West Virginia State University, Edward Waters College (FL), and Xavier University of Louisiana, as well as at Frostburg State University (Maryland) and Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania). He has served administratively as Program Manager for Research with Xavier University of Louisiana’s Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, as Director of Multicultural Affairs at Olivet College (Michigan), as Director of the Black Cultural Center at Iowa State University, and the Human Development Center at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
Outside of academia, Dr. ibn Hyman also worked in the field as a licensed social worker for the state of West Virginia, the heart of Appalachia and national opioid crisis epicenter, with the Save the Children Federation (Zambia and Zimbabwe), and on improving college preparedness and self-determination among disadvantaged secondary school students in southwestern Michigan and Louisiana.
Dr. ibn Hyman has served as principal investigator for several studies in Louisiana, Florida and northern Nigeria of self-determination among elementary, secondary and postsecondary students, of environmental justice, of culturally responsive pedagogy, the developmentally disabled in underserved communities, social capital transfers, national identity and ethno-religious conflict. He is credited with designing, implementing and managing externally funded human development projects targeting disadvantaged New Orleans populations for marriage and family strengthening, improved gender relations, and community-based youth leadership. He has been awarded the Danforth-Compton Graduate Fellowship in International Relations (1986-8), the JHR Fellowship in International Development (1989-1990), the King-Parks-Chavez Graduate Fellowship (1993-5), the Post-doctoral Fellowship in Disability Policy by the prestigious Beach Center at the University of Kansas (2001-2), and the Fellowship to the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (2007).
Dr. ibn Hyman’s scholarly work is highly interdisciplinary, focusing on the axiological dimensions of culture and cultural processes; the role of culture in economic agency and socioeconomic development; and, the cultural elements of racism and inter-ethnic social interaction. He has delivered numerous conference papers, public lectures and presentations on culture as a science, social and environmental justice, academic improvement, African and African American culture and history, and youth leadership development. Having returned to his native Baltimore, Dr. ibn Hyman’s current work concerns itself with the adverse effects of West North Avenue gentrification, improving academic and reasoning skills among urban youth, and completing several scholarly manuscripts.
Dr. ibn Hyman’s scholarly work is highly interdisciplinary, focusing on the axiological dimensions of culture and cultural processes; the role of culture in economic agency and socioeconomic development; and the cultural elements of racism and inter-ethnic social interaction. He has delivered numerous conference papers, public lectures and presentations on culture as a science, social and environmental justice, academic improvement, African and African American culture and history, and youth leadership development. Having returned to his native Baltimore, Dr. ibn Hyman’s current work concerns itself with the adverse effects of West North Avenue gentrification, improving academic and reasoning skills among urban youth, and completing several scholarly manuscripts.