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Dr
Aubrey W Bonnett is currently a professor of American Studies at SUNY
College at Old Westbury. He has been in the academy for over thirty
years and has served on both coasts in various academic and
administrative positions in the three largest systems of higher
education in the country- The State University of New York (SUNY), the
City University of New York (CUNY) and the California State University,
(CSU).
He served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and chief
academic officer at SUNY College Old Westbury for six years; the first
black Dean at the California State University San Bernardino where he
also headed the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, for 7 years;
Chair of the then nationally ranked department of Sociology at Hunter
College, CUNY for three years; and deputy head of the Ph.D program in
Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center at CUNY for
three years.
Dr. Bonnett is the recipient of numerous awards from
the states of California and New York, and has served on the Board of
Directors of many voluntary organizations in California and New York
including- The Home of Neighborly Services, (California), Concord
Baptist Adoption Services (New York) and 100 Black Men Nassau/Suffolk
(New York).
Dr .Bonnett received graduate degrees at the University
of Alberta, Canada in 1969, and the CUNY Graduate School and University
Center in 1976, an undergraduate degree from the Inter American
–University of Puerto Rico where he was Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Scholar. He was a recipient of a Postdoctoral fellowship of the Social
Science Research Council, New York, a graduate of the Management
Development Program (MDP) at Harvard University’s School of Education
in 1988, and a finalist for two college presidencies in New York State.
Dr.
Bonnett is the author/coauthor of four books and has published almost a
hundred scholarly articles in various academic/ professional journals,
and presented at numerous professional meetings. In addition to
Caribbean Impact, he has published commentaries for Newsday, the New
York Amsterdam News, as well as an online newspapers published out of
Canada- Caribbean Graphic Online and Carib Weekly.
He lectures in
the areas of African American Studies; Migration and Transnational
Studies; micro lending and economic adaptation among transnationals;
contemporary American Society and additionally in the areas of social
movements and protest and change in developed nations.
His work in
micro lending /savings in developed societies, especially among West
Indian Immigrants, is seminal and is widely quoted in the academic and
professional literature. He consults in the area of tertiary education,
immigration/homeland security matters both in the USA and abroad.
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