Cynthia Ann Young (born 1969) is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English, and head of the Department of African American Studies, at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to her work at Penn State she was on the faculty of Boston College, where she directed the African and African Diaspora Studies Program. She authored ''Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left'' (Duke University Press, 2006). She was a contributor to the exhibition ''Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties''.

Education

Young has a BA in English from

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, where she was a Kluge scholar, and a PhD in American studies from

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