People

Taiwo Ehineni

taiwo_ehineni@fas.harvard.edu

African Language Program Preceptor

Taiwo O Ehineni is a Preceptor of African Languages in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a concentration in African Languages and an M.A. in Linguistics, both from Indiana...

Caroline Elkins

elkins@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies

Professor Elkins's first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It was also selected as one of the Economist's best history books for 2005, was a New York Times...

Alexandra Fair

African American Studies with a primary field in History of Science

Alexandra Fair is a doctoral student in African American Studies and an AM student in the Department of the History of Science. Her research examines the linguistic strategies Anglo-American eugenic theorists use to reconstitute eugenic ideology in modern...

Armin Fardis

African Studies, with a primary field in English

Armin Fardis is a writer and educator born in Iran and raised in the Bay Area (Northern California). Dr. Fardis' research emphasizes longue durée and transnational social histories of anticolonialism and mass incarceration. In 2020, he defended his...

Marla F. Frederick

hdsdeansoffice@hds.harvard.edu

Professor of Religion and Culture

Dean of the Faculty of Divinity

Marla Frederick is a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience. She became the eighteenth Dean of Harvard Divinity School on January 1, 2024. Frederick employs an interdisciplinary approach to examining the ways...

Gustavo Freire Martins

Gustavo Freire Martins is a doctoral student at Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History. He also worked as a history teacher for teenagers and adults. His research interests lie at the...

Alejandro de la Fuente

delafuente@fas.harvard.edu

On Leave Spring 2027

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics;

Professor of African and African American Studies and of History;

Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University

A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, Professor de la Fuente’s works on race, slavery, law, art, and Atlantic history have been published in Spanish, English, Portuguese...

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

gates@harvard.edu

Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor

Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic...

Claudine Gay

Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies

Claudine Gay is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and Professor of African and African-American Studies. She served as the 30th president of Harvard University, the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the dean of...

Christian Gines

Joint Concentration:

History and Literature

African American Studies

Christian Gines (he/him) is a Sophomore in Mather House pursuing a Joint Concentration in History and Literature and African American Studies. Christian is the treasurer of the Harvard Debate Council, a writer for The Harvard Crimson Editorial and Arts...

Jarvis R. Givens

jarvis_givens@gse.harvard.edu

Professor of Education

Professor of African and African-American Studies

Jarvis R. Givens is a Professor of Education and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and he is also the co-founding faculty director of the Black Teacher Archive. As a historian who focuses on 19th and 20th-century African American...

David Glovsky

On Leave AY 2026-27

Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies

David (Dave) Glovsky is a historian of 19th and 20th century West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and the Gambia. His research and teaching interests include histories of mobility and migration, borderlands, spatial history, Islam...