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Khytie Brown

African American Studies, with a primary field in Religion

Khytie Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in Religion. Her research...

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RuQuan Brown

RuQuan Brown

A.B. Candidate in African Studies
RuQuan Brown '24 (he/him/his) is a resident of Dunster House concentrating in African Studies.  Mr. Brown's love for African culture spans beyond African-... Read more about RuQuan Brown
Kierstan Carter

Kierstan Carter

African and African American Studies with a primary field in Government

Kierstan Carter is a doctoral student in African and African American Studies with a primary field in Government (political theory). She studies the...

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Bruno Carvalho

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies
Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative
Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design

Bruno Carvalho works on cities as lived and imagined spaces. He studies relationships between cultural practices and urbanization, with a focus on Brazil...

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Panashe Chigumadzi

Panashe Chigumadzi

African and African American Studies, with a primary field in History

Panashe Chigumadzi is an essayist and novelist. Her 2015 debut novel Sweet Medicine (Blackbird Books) won the 2016 K. Sello Duiker Literary Award...

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Chepchumba Choge

Chepchumba Choge

A.B Candidate in Computer Science & African and African American Studies
Chepchumba Choge is a senior in Leverett House concentrating in Computer Science & African and African American Studies, with a secondary in the Studies of... Read more about Chepchumba Choge
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Jean Comaroff

Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies

On leave Fall 2023

Jean Comaroff was educated at the University of Cape Town and...

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Department of African and African American Studies
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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John Comaroff

Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies

John Comaroff is Professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Scholar, at Harvard University. Before...

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Department of African and African American Studies
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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