Charles M. Christian

Dr. Christan was a social geographer in the Department of Geography and Institute for Urban Studies at the University of Maryland. Charles Christian is the creator of The Black Saga Competition (circa 1992) – an academic quiz that tests the Black history knowledge of 4th – 8th grade students. His book by the same name — “Black Saga: The African American Experience” was published in 1995. It is the result of a seven-year journey that he began to find the context for stories he heard his mother and grandparents tell while growing up in small towns in Texas and Oklahoma. Charles Christian taught several 400 level Geography courses including a course on how race and class influenced people’s interaction with space. In 2008, Dr. Christian received the National Education Association’s Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award at the Association’s 42nd annual Human and Civil Rights Awards Dinner on July 2, 2008, in Washington, D.C.