Advising

Students will be assigned an advisor from the Committee on Graduate Studies who will be their mentor through the first two years. After consulting with the Director of Graduate Studies, a student may change advisors during the first two years. Students are encouraged to discuss their interests outside of the primary field with faculty from other departments. This process enables students to develop relationships with various faculty members from whom the student will select a dissertation committee.

Faculty in the Program

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

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

Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language

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

Glenda Carpio, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and English and American Literature and Language

Kimberly DaCosta, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies

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

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor,
Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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

Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies; Member of Faculty; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

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

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

James Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies

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

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

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

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

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies

Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, Professor of African and African American Studies, Associate of Pforzheimer House (Director of Graduate Studies)

John Stauffer, Professor of English and American Literature and Language

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