About Kris Manjapra
Practicing radical scholarship aimed at breaking down disciplinary boundaries and exploding the walls separating the university from larger and more diverse communities.
Kris Manjapra works at the intersection of comparative global history and the critical study of race and colonialism.
Manjapra is a Tufts professor and the author of five books, including his comparative study of global emancipation processes and the implications for the reparations movement today: Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (Scribner and Penguin, 2022).
His previous book, Colonialism in Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2020), centrally contributed to the emerging field of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies, and Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectual across Empire (Harvard, 2014) received the 2019 International Merck-Tagore Prize.
Kris is also the founder of a site-based nonprofit, Black History in Action, dedicated to the restoration and reactivation of a Black center of cultural heritage in Cambridge, MA. Kris also co-organizes a free online community certificate course, entitled Black Futures Matter, serving people’s assemblies across the US and Caribbean.