Claudrena Harold, Ph.D.
Speaker; Professor of African American and African Studies and History, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Claudrena N. Harold is Professor and Chair of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of three books, The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942, New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, and When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras. She has coedited two volumes, The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration and Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity. As a part of her ongoing work on the history of black student activism at UVA, she has co-directed with Kevin Everson nine short films.
