Our Faculty
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 , Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language (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 , Assistant 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 , 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 and American Literature and Language (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 American Literature and Language (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