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Evelynn Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Professor Hammonds's current work focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical, and socio-political concepts of race in the United States. She is completing a history of biological, medical, and anthropological uses of racial concepts entitled, The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States, 1850–1990. Professor Hammonds earned a Ph.D. at Harvard in the Department of History of Science, an S.M. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.E.E. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in physics from Spelman College. She taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to Harvard.
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Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr is Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. He was previously a Distinguished and Presidential Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before joining the Graduate Center he was an assistant and associate professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. In addition, he has been the Jess and Sara Cloud Distinguished Visiting Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, the Edward Said Visiting Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut, the Drue Heinz Visiting Professor of English at the University of Oxford, and the Carlisle and Barbara Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in African American Studies from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Rev. Aric B. Flemming Jr. is a preacher of the Gospel, a scholar of Religion, and a recording artist. After graduating from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Religion, Aric received his ordination at Mt. Carmel and matriculated at Harvard Divinity School. While at Harvard, he served the Memorial Church as the 1st Master of Divinity Seminarian for Black Student Ministries. He is also a former Vice-President of the Harvard Graduate Council. Aric is the founder of UNDRGRND Church, a worshipping virtual faith community that seeks to actively minister to the oppressed in society. UNDRGRND’s weekly worship Gatherings welcome a wide range of identities including clergy, laypersons, non-Christian, non-religious, atheists, queer, disenfranchised, a-political, and other oppressed communities. UNDRGRND’s space is one that fosters wrestling with those complexities and encourages inter-communal dialogue and conversation through narrative sharing.
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Kamille Washington is the Administrative Director for FAS International Affairs at Harvard University. In that role, she handles numerous partnerships and negotiations with foreign governments, foundations, and universities to develop new resources and collaborations for members of the FAS community. She received her Bachelor’s degree in the Comparative Study of Religion from Harvard College in 2010, and is a current student in the Mid-Career MPA Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She served as President of the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus, Harvard’s LGBTQIA+ alumni organization, from 2017 to 2018. Finally, Kamille is one half of the Unfriendly Black Hotties, a podcast about the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in higher ed, pop culture, and politics.
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