J. Herman Blake, PhD, Executive Director, retired as the inaugural Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Medical University of South Carolina in December 2014. Dr. Blake received his B.A. from New York University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, all in sociology. He retired from Iowa State University as Professor of Sociology Emeritus and served most recently as scholar in residence and founding director of the Sea Islands Institute at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort.
Throughout his career Dr. Blake has focused on minority students in higher education, urban militants in the African American community and social change and community development in rural and urban African American communities. His publications include over fifty full-length contributions and a book, the autobiography of Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide. He has been awarded six honorary degrees and two presidential medals.
Dr. Blake serves on the East Coast Greenway Advisory Board.
