Dr. Clem Harris is Director of Africana Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, where he teaches interdisciplinary courses in African American Urban History, African Diasporic History, and Public Affairs.
Dr. Harris holds a Ph.D. in History, with graduate certificates in Urban Studies and Africana Studies received from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. He has received fellowships for research in areas such as Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism; and Africana Studies.
His current book manuscript for the University of Pennsylvania Press, entitled: Reconstructing Philadelphia: The Persistence of Racism and the African American Struggle for Political Power and Civil Rights in the Urban North, is a case study that examines the roles of electoral and protests activism in the fight for racial reform in the urban north from the Abolition Era to the 1980s.
His second book project is a historical analysis on the politics and policies of Philadelphia’s first two-term African American mayor, W. Wilson Goode, Sr.