2016 Committee on the University and Slavery

Sven Beckert (co-chair), Laird Bell Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (co-chair), Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies

Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies and of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University

Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University

Evelynn M. Hammonds, chair of Harvard’s Department of the History of Science, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, a professor of African and African American studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

John Stauffer, Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies