People

Armin Fardis

African Studies, with a primary field in English

Armin Fardis is a writer and educator born in Iran and raised in the Bay Area (Northern California). Dr. Fardis' research emphasizes longue durée and transnational social histories of anticolonialism and mass incarceration. In 2020, he defended his...

Marla F. Frederick

hdsdeansoffice@hds.harvard.edu

Professor of Religion and Culture

Dean of the Faculty of Divinity

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 ways...

Gustavo Freire Martins

Gustavo Freire Martins is a doctoral student at Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History. He also worked as a history teacher for teenagers and adults. His research interests lie at the...

Alejandro de la Fuente

delafuente@fas.harvard.edu

On Leave Spring 2027

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

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...

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

gates@harvard.edu

Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor

Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

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...

Claudine Gay

Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies

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...

Christian Gines

Joint Concentration:

History and Literature

African American Studies

Christian Gines (he/him) is a Sophomore in Mather House pursuing a Joint Concentration in History and Literature and African American Studies. Christian is the treasurer of the Harvard Debate Council, a writer for The Harvard Crimson Editorial and Arts...

Jarvis R. Givens

jarvis_givens@gse.harvard.edu

Professor of Education

Professor of African and African-American Studies

Jarvis R. Givens is a Professor of Education and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and he is also the co-founding faculty director of the Black Teacher Archive. As a historian who focuses on 19th and 20th-century African American...

Rico Givens-Padilla

African and African American Studies with a primary field in English

Rico Givens-Padilla is a doctoral student in Harvard’s Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in English. His work examines how Black writers and historical figures narrate intimacy, sexuality, pleasure, and the body...

David Glovsky

On Leave AY 2026-27

Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies

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...

Emily Greenwood

emilygreenwood@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the Classics and Comparative Literature

Research Interests: ancient Greek prose literature, Greek historiography, classical reception studies, black studies, postcolonial literature and theory. In broad terms, I am interested in the plural histories of use that make up the classical tradition...

Evelynn M. Hammonds

hammonds@fas.harvard.edu

Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies

Chair of the Department of the History of Science

Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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...