Dr. Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Previously, he was a Junior Research Fellow in African and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in...
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...
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...
Amber M. Henry is an anthropologist of Latin America and the Caribbean whose work explores political mobilization and embodied practices in relation to sovereign forms of Black placemaking.
Professor Henry’s first book centers on the Afro-Colombian...
Tracey Hucks is a nationally known and esteemed scholar of Africana Studies and American Religious History. She has served most recently as Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Colgate University where she has been James A. Storing Professor of Religion and...
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...
Terrence L. Johnson is Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies. His research interests include African American political thought, ethics, American religions, and the role of religion in public life. Johnson's interdisciplinary...
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...
Professor Imani Perry is appointed jointly as Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies. She is scheduled to teach a course on Black feminist theory in fall 2023 and the WGS Junior Tutorial in Spring...
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Paulina L. Alberto is a historian of Afro-Latin American lives, thought, and politics as they unfolded in the aftermath of slavery, particularly in Brazil and Argentina. Her work...
