Djsovi Eason, PhD.

Dr. Djisovi Ikukomi Eason is the coodinator of Education
Transformation through Cultural Arts (a component of the Center
for Innovative and Transformative Education) and a faculty member in the Africana Studies Program where he is a specialist in African and diasporic religions.

After working in the civil rights and cultural
nationalist movements in the late 1960s through 1980s, he
recieved his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University with
cognates in history, sociology, and ethnomusicology.
He teaches African Traditional Religions and African religions in
the United States. Dr. Djisovi is the author of several published
articles and has submitted a book-length manuscript to a
university press for publication consideration.
He has lectured and performed at the Atlanta High Museum of
Art, Toledo Museum of Art, King-Tisdell Museum in Savannah,
Detroit’s African-American History Museum (the latter with world
renowned Nigerian Drummer Babatunde Olatunji), and at
professional conferences in religion and culture studies. As a
member of the Clark Atlanta University Jazz Orchestra, he
performed with Betty Carter, Dizzie Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Max Roach, and Kenny Burrell.

He is a member of the African American Musician’s History Society of Northwest Ohio.
Dr. Djisovi is adviser to the African Peoples’ Association and
co-director and founder of the Benin Seminar in history and
cultural arts, which is held in West Africa. He presents Africana
cultural arts performances on and off Campus and is the founder
of the creative educational Odun Omo Eniyan Youth Festival, an
activity that engages Bowling Green – Toledo area youth in
Africana and other world traditional rhythms, songs, dances, and
short stories.

He offers sessions in Africana meditation
drumming for students and community persons in the Bowling
Green - Toledo area as well as across the nation.

Educational Transformation through Cultural Arts (ETCA)
305-A University Hall
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Phone:419-372-9865 Fax: 419-372-8264