Claude Joseph Phillip Poux

phone: (410) 516-6385   email: Claude.Poux@jhu.edu

Mr. Poux’s Bachelor of Arts degree in physics, philosophy & history of ideas is from Brandeis University.  His MBA (international business) and Master of Public Policy (science, technology & international policy) degrees are from the University of Chicago, where he remains a Master of Arts degree candidate in the conceptual & historical studies of science.  An award-winning, freelance reporter who has been published on wide-ranging subjects, Poux holds a Master of Science degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is a Toni Stabile Fellow in Investigative Reporting.  

Prior to his position at the Center for Africana Studies, he held administrative appointments at Harvard, MIT, Cornell University, Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago.  Additionally, he was an instructor in the mathematics and physics sections of the Medical College Admissions Test course at the Boston University School of Medicine, a pre-med mathematics instructor at Chicago State University, an SAT course instructor and teaching assistant in mathematics in the MIT/Wellesley College Upward Bound Program, and a teaching assistant in mechanics in the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science Program at MIT. 

As a student, Poux held internships at IBM-East Fishkill (physics and engineering physics), the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (high energy), the Graduate Schools of Business at both the University of Chicago (organizational behavior) and Columbia University (marketing).  Poux was one of the "founding five" of the enormously successful Annual Conference of Black Physics Students, the first two of which took place at MIT in 1987 and 1988 with a few dozen students, but which now draw several hundred participants from all over the world.

As a middle school student in Akron, Ohio, Poux participated - by invitation - in classical piano master classes at conservatories in Nantes and Paris, France.  At 11 he performed the Mozart Concerto in D minor, K466, and shortly thereafter gave his first solo recital.  His piano teachers have included Nicholas Constantinidis, Michel Gautier, Robert Casadesus and Andreus Kuprevicius.  Poux, whose maternal great grandmother (Miriella Ferrera) was an accomplished Corsican pianist, is currently a pupil of Dr. Carol Prochazka at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute, Preparatory Division.  His repertoire consists primarily of Russian works, spanning those of Blumenfeld, Scriabin, Gabrilowitsch, Bortkiewicz, Rachmaninoff, Liapunov, Godowsky and others.  Poux plans to resume recital performances as soloist and in instrumental and vocal chamber music ensembles fairly soon.

Poux's intellectual interests include globalization, business entrepreneurship (especially where technology is involved), technoscience, international policy, macroeconomics, foreign, international & transnational law, Africana philosophy and politics; cosmology, astrobiology, ancient and modern African history of science, classical music (especially Russian and Africana), ballet and opera.