DR. KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD PROFESSOR,

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 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 : 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 , New Yorker, Washington Post,

National Public Radio, Moyers and Company, and . 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.