Pero Gaglo Dagbovie is professor, graduate director and associate chair in the department of history at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. As the principal investigator for the Carter G. Woodson Home, NHS, he completed the historic resource study titled "Willing to Sacrifice: Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, and the Carter G. Woodson Home" (Washington, D.C., National Park Service, 2010). He has written numerous books on black history throughout his career.