Dr. Zuberi is popularly known as a host on the hit Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series The History Detectives. 
Now in its sixth season, History Detectives regularly shows the way individual objects can serve as a lens into the past. He has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and African American issues, and on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX, WHYY, MSNBC, and on syndicated programs such as Donahue, and America's Black Forum. He is currently working on several documentary projects. Dr. Zuberi's long history with PBS has led to the marriage of scholarship and visual media, TZ Production Company, started in 2007. TZ Production Company strives make films that break current documentary making creative standards, and cover controversial topics with your host, Tukufu Zuberi.
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, a Professor of Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at Mekerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He currently directs the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), an international collaboration with African nations (including Kenya).
Tukufu Zuberi is one of the most important academic voices in America. He is most recognized for his research of African and American society, and for developing and expanding the Africana Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. Tukufu holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, and is the author or editor of many books, articles, essays, and reviews, and has received numerous awards for his academic work. Tukufu is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public. He is a regular guest lecturer at colleges and universities across the country and internationally, and on various television programs. Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie and Annie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California in the 1970s, he embraced the name Tukufu Zuberi - Swahili for "beyond praise" and "strength." He has said "I took the name because of a desire to make and have a connection with an important period where people were challenging what it means to be a human being."
Dr. Zuberi is also the author of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot:
The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century," published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995; and "Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie," published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2001. He has just completed a manuscript on the history of Timbuktu, entitled "Timbuktu: Pearl of the African Sea." He is the series editor of the "General Demography of Africa" (a multi-volume series). He has written more than 50 scholarly articles and co-edited five volumes. Professor Zuberi has edited or co-edited special issues of the December 2000 Black Scholar on "Transcending Traditions: African, African Diaspora, and African American Studies in the 21st Century;" the March 2000 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on "The Study of African American Problems: Papers In Honor Of W.E.B. Du Bois," a volume of "Race and Society on Racial Statistics" and a volume of the Journal of Black Studies. He is co-editor of the recently published "The Demography of South Africa."
Now in its sixth season, History Detectives regularly shows the way individual objects can serve as a lens into the past. He has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and African American issues, and on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX, WHYY, MSNBC, and on syndicated programs such as Donahue, and America's Black Forum. He is currently working on several documentary projects. Dr. Zuberi's long history with PBS has led to the marriage of scholarship and visual media, TZ Production Company, started in 2007. TZ Production Company strives make films that break current documentary making creative standards, and cover controversial topics with your host, Tukufu Zuberi.
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, a Professor of Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at Mekerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He currently directs the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), an international collaboration with African nations (including Kenya).
Tukufu Zuberi is one of the most important academic voices in America. He is most recognized for his research of African and American society, and for developing and expanding the Africana Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. Tukufu holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, and is the author or editor of many books, articles, essays, and reviews, and has received numerous awards for his academic work. Tukufu is dedicated to bringing a fresh view of culture and society to the public. He is a regular guest lecturer at colleges and universities across the country and internationally, and on various television programs. Born Antonio McDaniel to Willie and Annie McDaniel, and raised in the housing projects of Oakland, California in the 1970s, he embraced the name Tukufu Zuberi - Swahili for "beyond praise" and "strength." He has said "I took the name because of a desire to make and have a connection with an important period where people were challenging what it means to be a human being."
Dr. Zuberi is also the author of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot:
The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century," published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995; and "Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie," published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2001. He has just completed a manuscript on the history of Timbuktu, entitled "Timbuktu: Pearl of the African Sea." He is the series editor of the "General Demography of Africa" (a multi-volume series). He has written more than 50 scholarly articles and co-edited five volumes. Professor Zuberi has edited or co-edited special issues of the December 2000 Black Scholar on "Transcending Traditions: African, African Diaspora, and African American Studies in the 21st Century;" the March 2000 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on "The Study of African American Problems: Papers In Honor Of W.E.B. Du Bois," a volume of "Race and Society on Racial Statistics" and a volume of the Journal of Black Studies. He is co-editor of the recently published "The Demography of South Africa."