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Dr. Jarvis R. Givens is a Professor of Education and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also the co-founding faculty director of the Black Teacher Archive.
A historian who focuses on 19th and 20th century African American history, Dr. Givens studies the educational and intellectual traditions of Black communities, documenting how these traditions developed within, yet against, the constraints of white supremacy.
His historical research is especially interested in the interplay between race, power, and schooling in the United States, as well as the broader African Diaspora; and it exposes the role education and teachers played in Black freedom struggles of the past in order to provide resources for contemporary models of liberatory education.
