Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies - Ford Foundation

Contributors
Farah Jasmine Griffin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature
and African American Studies at Columbia University where she served as
Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies from
2003–2006. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale University, Griffin is the
editor of numerous volumes and the author of Who Set You Flowin’: The
African American Migration Narrative (1995); If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery:
In Search of Billie Holiday (2001); and (co-author with Salim Washington)
the forthcoming Clawing at the Edges of Cool: Miles Davis and John
Coltrane, 1955–1961. She is currently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B.
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.
Robert Harris Jr. is currently a Professor of African American history in the
Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. He also serves
as the Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development. Harris is the author
of Teaching African American History and the co-editor of The Columbia
Guide to African American History Since 1939. In 2003 he was awarded
the Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion for distinguished work in the
field of African American life and history.
Darlene Clark Hine, a historian of the African American experience and one
of the founders of the field of black women’s history, is currently the Board of
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