Faculty Representative | Chair of the Board of Directors | Chair of the Executive Committee
Trevor Getz is a Professor of African History at San Francisco State University. His work on African and global history encompasses eleven books including Abina and the Important Men (Oxford University Press), which won the American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson prize. He is passionate about education and curriculum, and his most recent book is A Primer for Teaching African History (Duke University Press). He recently completed a curricular planning project funded by a grant from the Teagle Foundation, and is currently the principal investigator for the History for the 21st Century Project, supported by the Agentives Foundation. He also serves as the Principal Content Development and Evaluation Manager for Gates Ventures’ On World History project.
Trevor is deeply committed to San Francisco State, our students, and our community. Formerly the Chair of the Academic Senate, he co-chaired the 2014-2015 strategic planning process for the university and chaired the 2017-2018 Equity and Inclusion Educational Outreach working group. Currently, he serves on the boards of the Longmore Institute for Disability Studies and the Veteran Documentary Corps, two research service organizations at SF State.