Education:
Ph.D. in English, Princeton University 2018
M.A. in English, Princeton University 2013
B.A. English, Amherst College 2006
Interests: the novel, African American literature, African diaspora literatures, postwar or post-45 literary history...
Sarah Lewis is an art and cultural historian.
She is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Lewis is the founder of Vision & Justice, a catalytic civic...
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. Born in 1957, she grew up in Quebec and studied political theory at the University of...
Walter Johnson's work focuses on slavery, capitalism, and, increasingly, imperialism in the nineteenth century. His first book, Soul by Soul (1999) used the slave market as a way to think about the fantasies, fears, negotiations, and violence that...
Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” VIJAY IYER has carved out a unique path as a prolific, shape-shifting presence in American music...
Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor. In 2011, she held the John W. Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at...
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She held the position of chair of the Department of African and African American Studies from 2006-2013. In summer...
Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies.
Professor Hammonds joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2002 after teaching at the Massachusetts...
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...
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...
