People

Ciana Biasi-Smiley

cianabiasismiley@college.harvard.edu

A.B. Candidate in African American Studies and Government

Ciana Smiley '21 is a senior in Cabot House concentrating in African American Studies and Government with a focus field in juvenile justice. Ciana is a prison abolitionist whose thesis research focuses on divestment from police in Alameda County, CA and...

Suzanne P. Blier

blier@fas.harvard.edu

Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts

Professor of African and African American Studies

Suzanne Preston Blier (Ph.D. 1981 Columbia, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) is an historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and...

Lawrence D. Bobo

lawrence_bobo@harvard.edu

W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences

Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies

Lawrence D. Bobo is the Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and...

Lowell Andrew Brower

African Studies, with a primary field in Anthropology

Lowell Brower is a doctoral candidate in African & African American Studies with a primary field in Anthropology. His research centers on African oral traditions and post-conflict storytelling practices in East and Central Africa. His dissertation...

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 emphasis is on religious expression and cultural production in in the Caribbean and Latin America with particular...

Glenda R. Carpio

carpio@fas.harvard.edu

Powell M. Cabot Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies

Glenda R. Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University. Her book, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. She is currently working on a...

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 theoretical underpinnings of institutions within United States political life, with a special emphasis on...

Bruno Carvalho

bcarvalh@fas.harvard.edu

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. Carvalho’s interdisciplinary approaches bridge history, literary analysis, and urban studies. Often...

Chambi Chachage

chambichachage@fas.harvard.edu

African Studies, with a primary field in History

Chambi Chachage is a PhD student in African Studies with a primary field in History. He holds a BSocSci in Psychological Studies/BA (Hons) in African Studies and MSc in African Studies from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Edinburgh...

Panashe Chigumadzi

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

Dr Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer and historian. Chigumadzi is the author of These Bones Will Rise Again (2018), a historical memoir reflecting on Zimbabwe's 2017 coup and shortlisted for the 2019 Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction. Her 2015...

Paul T. Clarke

paul_clarke@g.harvard.edu

African and American Studies, with a primary field in Anthropology

Paul Clarke is a doctoral candidate in African and African American Studies with a primary field in Anthropology. His research centers on issues of labor, policing, and privatization in urban South Africa. Originally from Skokie, Illinois, he received a...

Jean Comaroff

jeancomaroff@fas.harvard.edu

Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology

Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies

Jean Comaroff was educated at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. After a spell as research fellow in medical Anthropology at the University of Manchester, she moved to the University of Chicago, where she was remained until...