DR. KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD PROFESSOR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of history, race, and public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Studies. He is a former director of the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history, and a former associate professor at Indiana University.
Muhammad's scholarship examines the broad intersections of race, democracy, inequality, and criminal justice in modern U.S. history. He is a contributor to a 2014 National Research Council study, The Growth of
Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, and is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the
Making of Modern Urban America (2010), which won the American
Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize.
Much of his work has been featured in national print and broadcast media outlets, including the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post,
National Public Radio, Moyers and Company, and msnbc. He has appeared in a number of feature-length documentaries, including Slavery by
Another Name (2012) and the Oscar-nominated 13th (2016). He has been an associate editor of the Journal of American History and an Andrew W.
Mellon Fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice. In 2017, he received the
Distinguished Service Medal from Columbia University’s Teachers
College. He currently serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art, the Barnes Foundation, the Vera Institute, and The Nation magazine, and on the advisory boards of the Cure Violence, The HistoryMakers, and the
Lapidus Center for the Study of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg
Center.