Robert Reid-Pharr Awarded Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

May 22, 2020
Radcliffe Fellows

WGS professor Robert Reid-Pharr has been awarded the 2020-2021 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. During the fellowship, Reid-Pharr will to continue work on his biography of the novelist and essayist James Baldwin, which he discussed at length during the 2019 Radcliffe event “Writing Black Lives" (co-sponsored by WGS).

Reid-Pharr has published four books: Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016), Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999); Black, Gay, Man: Essays (NYU Press, 2001); and Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (NYU Press, 2007).

His fall 2019 course "Black Radicalism" created a virtual museum of archival materials that relate to the black radical movement, many of which have been made available online for the first time by the exhibit.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Reid-Pharr on this recognition of his high-quality scholarship.

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