Brandon M. Terry is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and the co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Born in Baltimore, Terry earned a PhD with distinction in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University, an MSc in Political Theory Research at the University of Oxford, and an AB, magna cum laude, in Government and African and African American Studies from Harvard College.
His broader academic and advising interests include African American intellectual and political thought, Africana philosophy, contemporary political theory (especially questions of resistance, protest, and dissent), African American and American political history and development (esp. the 20th century and the “long” civil rights movement), the politics of race, poverty in social and political thought, crime and incarceration, and the aesthetics and sociology of hip-hop and “black” youth cultures.
Contact:
bterry@fas.harvard.edu