Russell Rickford

Associate Professor, History
Russell Rickford specializes in African American political culture after World War II, the Black radical tradition, and transnational social movements.
His book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination, received the 2016 Hooks Institute National Book Award and the 2017 OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award. He is currently working on a book about Guyana and African American radical politics in the 1970s.