{"id":992,"date":"2020-06-23T23:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T04:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/?post_type=speaker&p=992"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:09:59","slug":"khalil-muhammad","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/speaker\/khalil-muhammad\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalil Muhammad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Khalil Gibran Muhammad\u00a0<\/strong>is a professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world\u2019s leading library and archive of global black history. Before leading the Schomburg Center, Khalil was an Associate Professor at Indiana University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalil\u2019s scholarship examines the broad intersections of race, democracy, inequality and criminal justice in modern U.S. history. He is co-editor of \u201cConstructing the Carceral State,\u201d a special issue of the Journal of American History <\/em>(June 2015), and a contributor to a2014 National Research Council study, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, <\/em>as well as the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America <\/em>(Harvard), which won the 2011 John Hope Franklin Best Book award in American Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of his work has been featured in national print and broadcast media outlets, including the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, The Nation, National Public Radio, Moyers and Company, <\/em>and MSNBC<\/em>. He has appeared in a number of feature-length documentaries, including the Oscar-nominated 13th<\/em> (2016) and Slavery by Another Name <\/em>(2012)<\/em>. Khalil was an associate editor of The Journal of American History and prior Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society. In 2017, he received the Distinguished Service Medal from Columbia University\u2019s Teachers College. He holds two honorary doctorates and is on the boards of the Vera Institute of Justice, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Historical Society, and The Nation magazine, as well as the advisory boards of Cure Violence, Common Justice, The HistoryMakers and the Lapidus Center for the Study of Transatlantic Slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalil is an award-winning teacher at Harvard and has received numerous honors for his commitment to public engagement, including BPI Chicago\u2019s Champion of the Public Interest Award <\/em>(2018), The Fortune Society\u2019s Game Changer Award <\/em>(2017), Ebony Power 100<\/em> (2013), The Root 100 of Black Influencers <\/em>(2012-2014),and Crain\u2019s New York Business magazine 40 under 40 <\/em>(2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A native of Chicago\u2019s South Side, Khalil graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Economics in 1993, and then joined Deloitte & Touche, LLP, as a staff accountant until entering graduate school. He earned his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Rutgers University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":993,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-992","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School","speaker_last_name":"Muhammad","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/992\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}