Brandon Terry

I am an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University, and a faculty affiliate of American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. I am a scholar of African American political thought, political philosophy, and race, politics, and culture, and the editor, with Tommie Shelby, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harvard University Press, 2018) and the editor of Fifty Years Since MLK (MIT 2018). Prior to joining the faculty, I was a Resident Tutor at Lowell House and am still happy to advise students about fellowships, issues of race, gender, class, and culture, and public service. Academically, I am always excited to discuss political and social theory/philosophy, contemporary politics and political science, U.S. and African-American history, urban poverty, and the aesthetics and sociology of black popular culture. Born in Baltimore, I graduated magna cum laude with an AB in Government and African and African American Studies from Harvard College as a resident of Lowell House. After college, I received an MSc in Political Theory Research from the University of Oxford as the Michael von Clemm Fellow, and earned a PhD with university distinction in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University. I have published work in Boston Review, Dissent, The Point, New Labor Forum, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Perspectives on Politics and provided commentary for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, NPR, Time, Associated Press, The Nation, and other national and international publications.