Advising

Students will be assigned an advisor from the Committee on Graduate Studies who will be their mentor through the first two years. After consulting with the Director of Graduate Studies, a student may change advisors during the first two years. Students are encouraged to discuss their interests outside of the primary field with faculty from other departments. This process enables students to develop relationships with various faculty members from whom the student will select a dissertation committee.

Faculty in the Program

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

Emmanuel Akyeampong, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Harvard College Professor

Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language

Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies

Glenda Carpio, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and English and American Literature and Language

Kimberly DaCosta, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies

Marla Frederick, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion

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

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

Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies; Member of Faculty; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies

Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies (on leave 2006-'07)

James Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies (on leave 2006-'07)

Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professorship of African American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment (on leave Fall 2006)

John M. Mugane, Senior Preceptor and Director of the African Language Program Department of African and African American Studies (on leave Spring 2007)

Susan O'Donovan, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History (on leave 2006-'07)

Tommie Shelby, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor 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)

John Stauffer, Professor of English and American Literature and Language (on leave Spring 2007)

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