Faculty

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies
Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies

Ali S. Asani

Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures;
Associate of Lowell House

Robert H. Bates

Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies

Robin Bernstein

Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Suzanne P. Blier

Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies

Read more about Suzanne P. Blier

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Harvard Gazette Article "Casting an Impression"

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Lawrence D. Bobo

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

Vincent Brown

Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies

Multi-media historian Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and

Glenda R. Carpio

Professor of English and 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

Sidney Chalhoub

Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Sidney Chalhoub is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Department

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 joining

Jean Comaroff

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

Boubacar Diakite

Preceptor of the African Language Program

Boubacar Diakite is the preceptor of African Language Program in the department of African and African American Studies at Harvard. He is a linguist

Caroline Elkins

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

Marla F. Frederick

Professor of African and African American Studies and of Religion
Director of Graduate Studies
Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion 2011-2012

Alejandro de la Fuente

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

Department of African and

African American Studies