Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies (Chair)

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard College Professor and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies (on leave 2009-2010)

Ali S. Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures and of African and African American Studies (on leave fall 2009)

Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies

Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard

Suzanne P. Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies (on leave 2009-2010)

Lawrence D. Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences

Vincent Brown, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Glenda R. Carpio, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of English (acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2009-2010)

Marla F. Frederick, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion (on leave spring 2010)

Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology (on leave 2009-2010)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

Claudine Gay, Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies

Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College, Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies

Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor (on leave fall 2009)

Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Comparative Literature (on leave spring 2010)

Walter Johnson, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Jamaica Kincaid, Visiting Lecturer on African and African American Studies and on English

Michael R. Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Countries and Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (on leave fall 2009)

Michèle Lamont , Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies

Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment (on leave 2009-2010)

Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and African American Studies and Executive Director of the HipHop Archive (on leave 2009-2010)

John M. Mugane, Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures (Director of the African Language Program; on leave spring 2010)

Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of African Religious Traditions

Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy (Director of Undergraduate Studies; on leave 2009-2010)

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies

James Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies

Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies (Director of Graduate Studies)

Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University (on leave 2009-2010)

John Stauffer, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and of African and African American Studies

William Julius Wilson, Lewis F. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor