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    Garrett Felber

    Garrett Felber

    Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi
    Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
    Speaker, Panel 1, Scholars Report on Research Experience

    Garrett Felber is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi and a Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in...

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    Valerie Boyd

    Valerie Boyd

    Charlayne Hunter-Gault Professor of Journalism and Director of MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction, University of Georgia
    Author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
    Speaker, Panel 1, Scholars Report on Research Experience

    Valerie Boyd is author of the critically acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, winner of the Southern Book Award...

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    Anastasia Curwood

    Anastasia Curwood

    Associate Professor and Director, African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky
    Speaker, Panel 1, Scholars Report on Research Experience

    Anastasia Curwood is an Associate Professor of History and Director of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. A native of...

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    Mary Yearwood

    Mary F. Yearwood

    Director of Collections and Information Services, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    New York Public Library
    Speaker, Panel 2, Black Research Collections: Successes and Challenges

    Mary F. Yearwood is Director of Collections and Information Services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library....

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    Lopez D. Matthews

    Lopez D Matthews

    Digital Production Librarian, Howard University Libraries and The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
    Speaker, Panel 2, Black Research Collections: Successes and Challenges

    Lopez Matthews is an Adjunct Professor at Coppin State University where he teaches courses covering United States, African American, African and World...

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    Randall Burkett

    Randall Burkett

    Curator of African American Collections, Rose Library, Emory University
    Speaker, Panel 2, Black Research Collections: Successes and Challenges

    In 1997 Randall K. Burkett was hired as the first curator for African American collections at Emory University, and for the past twenty years he has been...

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    Kara Tucina Olidge

    Kara Tucina Olidge

    Executive Director, Amistad Research Center
    Speaker, Panel 2, Black Research Collections: Successes and Challenges

    Kara Tucina Olidge, PhD is the Executive Director of the Amistad Research Center, housed at Tulane University. She is a scholar and arts and educational...

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    Seamus Boshell

    Seamus Boshell

    Director of Finance.
    1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138
    p: (617) 495-5145
    Ying Chen

    Ying Chen

    Research Scientist

    Ying Chen, Sc.D., serves as an empirical research scientist for the program. She was previously a postdoctoral...

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    C. Pugh

    Cresa Pugh

    Steering Committee Member/Former President
    Department: Sociology and Social Policy
    Email address: clpugh@g.harvard.edu
    Research interests: postcolonial theory; ethnic, political and religious violence; transnational and global social change; development; prisons
    D. Penn

    Daphne Penn

    Communications Chair
    Department: Education
    Email address: daphnepenn@g.harvard.edu
    Research Interests: Race, Politics, Social Inequality, Education
    J. Olivier

    Jasmine Olivier

    Chair of the Health and Wellness Committee
    Department: Sociology
    Email Address: jasmine_n_olivier@g.harvard.edu
    Research interests: criminology, policing, inequality, urban poverty, race, education, social policy, and social movements.
    S. Jones

    Shandra Jones

    Co-Chair of the Harvard Hacks Writing Circle/Co-Chair of the Social Justice Engagement Committee
    Department: Education
    Email address: shandrajones@fas.harvard.edu
    Research Interests: The intersection of ethnic-racial and gender identity, cognitive development, and academic success for first-generation college... Read more about Shandra Jones

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