Prof. Jarvis R. Givens

Assistant Professor of Education, Faculty Affiliate, African & African American Studies

Harvard University

Jarvis R. Givens is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a faculty affiliate in the department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of education, African American history, and theories of race and power in education. His first book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, winner of the 2022 ASALH Book Prize, was published in 2021 by Harvard University Press. Professor Givens is currently building The Black Teacher Archive, an online portal which will house digitized records documenting the more than one-hundred-year history of “Colored Teachers Associations.” His research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the William F. Milton Fund. Professor Givens earned his PhD in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a native of Compton, California and currently resides in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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