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;
Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program;
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

AfricaMap

Academic Website

Harvard Gazette Article "Casting an Impression"

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Scholar Website:
http://scholar.harvard.edu/blier/
Fax: (617) 495-1769

blier@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-0781

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 Sciences Read more about Lawrence D. Bobo

It's Time for President Obama to Become a Leader

Harvard Scholar Website

Barker Center
12 Quincy Street Room 255
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: (617) 496-2871

bobo@wjh.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-2527

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 Read more about Vincent Brown

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

CGIS South 430
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: (617) 496-3425

brown8@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-6155

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 Read more about Glenda R. Carpio

One of the ROOT.com 100 for 2010

Article in "Chronicle of Higher Education" on Zora Neale Hurston

Department of African and African American Studies
12 Quincy St. Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: (617) 496-2871

carpio@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-7868

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 Read more about Sidney Chalhoub

Robinson Hall 212

chalhoub@fas.harvard.edu

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 Read more about John Comaroff

Theory from the South: or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa. [Essay version.] Anthropological Forum, 22(2):113-131

The Omnivorous Science: Jean and John Comaroff on the Politics of Anthropology, Capitalism, and Contemporary States [interview]

[with J. Comaroff] The Story of An African Firm. Chimurenga 16, October

Assistant: Alma Medina
Department of African and African American Studies
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: (617) 496-0621

jcomaroff@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-2658

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 Read more about Jean Comaroff

Theory from the South: or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa; World Financial Review

Assistant: Alma Medina
Department of African and African American Studies
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: (617) 496-0621

jeancomaroff@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-2519

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 with Read more about Boubacar Diakite

Barker Center 231A
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: (617) 496-2871

bdiakite@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-0864

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 Read more about Caroline Elkins

History Department

NY Times Book Review

Harvard Scholar Website

CGIS - South Building
1730 Cambridge St. Rm. 432
Cambridge, MA 02138

Assistant: Margie Jenkins
margiejenkins@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-1989

elkins@fas.harvard.edu; margiejenkins@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-2568

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