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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

ebhiggin@fas.harvard.edu

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

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...

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies

Professor Akyeampong joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on...

Jean Comaroff

jeancomaroff@fas.harvard.edu

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 the University of Manchester, she moved to the University of Chicago, where she was remained until...

John Comaroff

jcomaroff@fas.harvard.edu

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 the Department of African and African American Studies, John Comaroff was the Harold H. Swift...

Boubacar Diakite

bdiakite@fas.harvard.edu

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 specialization in Phonetics and Phonology of Mande languages. He was born in Mali, West Africa, where...

Alejandro de la Fuente

delafuente@fas.harvard.edu

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 joined Harvard University after holding faculty appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of...

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Joanna Lipper

jlipper@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on African and African American Studies

Joanna Lipper is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and author of the nationally acclaimed book, Growing Up Fast. As a Lecturer at Harvard University, she teaches Using Film For Social Change. Her work as a documentary filmmaker has been supported...

John M. Mugane

mugane@fas.harvard.edu

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

John M. Mugane is the Director of the African Language program in the Department of African and African American Studies. He is a linguist specializing in African languages and is the Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures at Harvard...

Laurence Ralph

lralph@fas.harvard.edu

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

Laurence Ralph is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago...

Kay Kaufman Shelemay

shelemay@fas.harvard.edu

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

Mather House SCR Associate Member

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University and a former Chair of the Department of Music. An ethnomusicologist specializing in musics of Africa, the Middle East, and the urban United States, she received her Ph.D...

Doris Sommer

dsommer@fas.harvard.edu

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

Professor Sommer's research interests have developed from the 19th-Century novels that helped to consolidate new republics in Latin America through the particular aesthetics of minoritarian literature, including bilingual virtuosity, to her current more...

David R. Williams

dwilliam@hsph.harvard.edu

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

David R. Williams is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University. His first 6 years as a faculty member were...