Khalil Gibran Muhammad

At-a-Glance

Inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University (since 2025)
Director of the Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project (IARA) at Princeton University (since 2018)
Former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (2010-2015)
Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race & Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (2016-2024)
Author of 'The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America' (2010)
Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University (2004)

Biography

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is an American academic and the inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University, a position he has held since 2025. At Princeton, he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA), which he has led since 2018.