Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham , Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies (Chair)

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong , Harvard College Professor and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Robert H. Bates , Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies (on leave 2007-08)

Homi K. Bhabha , Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard

Suzanne P. Blier , Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies

Lawrence D. Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences

Glenda R. Carpio , Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of English (on leave 2007-2008)

Kimberly McClain DaCosta , Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies (on leave 2007-2008)

Marla F. Frederick , Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion

Duana Fullwiley , Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Alphonse Fletcher University Professor (on leave spring 2008)

Claudine Gay , Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies

Evelynn M. Hammonds , Dean of Harvard College, Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies

Jennifer L. Hochschild , Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor

Francis Abiola Irele , Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Biodun Jeyifo , Professor of African and African American Studies and of Comparative Literature (acting Director of Graduate Studies for spring 2008)

Walter Johnson , Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Jamaica Kincaid , Visiting Lecturer on African and African American Studies and on English (on leave 2007-2008)

Michael R. Kremer , Gates Professor of Developing Countries and Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

Michèle Lamont , Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies

J. Lorand Matory , Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies

Ingrid Monson , Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment

Marcyliena Morgan , Professor of African and African American Studies and Executive Director of the HipHop Archive

John M. Mugane , Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures (Director of the African Language Program)

Susan E. O'Donovan , Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

Jacob Olupona , Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of African Religious Traditions

Tommie Shelby , Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy (Director of Undergraduate Studies)

Kay Kaufman Shelemay , G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies (on leave 2007-2008)

James Sidanius , Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies (on leave 2007-2008)

Werner Sollors , Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies (Director of Graduate Studies) (on leave spring 2008)

Doris Sommer , Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University

John Stauffer , Professor of English and of African and African American Studies (on leave 2007-2008)

David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and of African and African American Studies

William Julius Wilson , Lewis F. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor