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Faculty

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies

Jean Comaroff

Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies

John Comaroff

Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies

Boubacar Diakite

Preceptor of the African Language Program

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

Joanna Lipper

Lecturer on African and African American Studies

John M. Mugane

Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures and Director of the African Language Program

Laurence Ralph

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

Kay Kaufman Shelemay

G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies

Mather House SCR Associate Member

Doris Sommer

Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies

Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University

David R. Williams

Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health in the School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Social Engagement Initiative