Rate My Professor Ibram Kendi

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History and Professor of History at Howard University, serving also as the inaugural director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study. He earned his doctorate and master's degrees from Temple University and undergraduate degrees from Florida A&M University. Previously, Kendi was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded and directed the Center for Antiracist Research until 2025. His academic appointments include visiting professor at Brown University, 2013 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 2010-2011 J. Franklin Jameson Fellow at the Library of Congress, and 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Kendi is recognized as one of the world's foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. He is the National Book Award-winning author of seventeen books for adults and children, including eleven New York Times bestsellers, five #1 titles, translated into multiple languages across continents. Key publications include his debut The Black Campus Movement: A History of Black Student Activism, which won the W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize; Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award for Nonfiction), adapted into a Netflix documentary executive-produced by Kendi, earning Oscar shortlist, Emmy nomination, and other awards; How to Be an Antiracist; Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (co-edited with Keisha N. Blain, Andrew Carnegie Medal finalist); How to Raise an Antiracist; and forthcoming Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. Children's titles encompass Antiracist Baby, Goodnight Racism, and adaptations from Zora Neale Hurston like Magnolia Flower and young readers' Barracoon. Kendi has published in journals including The Journal of African American History, Journal of Black Studies, and Journal of Social History; co-edits NYU Press's Black Power Series; and writes op-eds for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. A prolific public speaker, he has delivered thousands of lectures worldwide. Major honors include the MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Grant), Guggenheim Fellowship, Time's 100 Most Influential People, and election to the Society of American Historians.