Michael Ralph

 

Michael Ralph

Michael Ralph

Professor and Chair

Profile Type: Faculty 

School / College: College of Arts & Sciences

Department / Office: Afro-American Studies

Email: Michael.Ralph@howard.edu

 

Dr. Ralph's research integrates political science, economics, history, and medical anthropology through an explicit focus on debt, slavery, insurance, forensics, and incarceration.

He is currently at work on two books that center on slavery, insurance, and incarceration.

Education

  • 2007, Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Chicago
  • 2002, M.A. in Anthropology, University of Chicago
  • 2000, B.A. in Africana Studies, Morris Brown College

Recent Fellowships / Honors

  • 2018, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellowship, Harvard University
  • 2016, Annual Michel-Rolph Trouillot Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
  • 2016, Nominee, Of the Month (OTM) Award, National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH), March 2016, NYU
  • 2016, Nominee, Of the Month (OTM) Award, National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH), February 2016, NYU
  • 2014, Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University (Multimedia History & Lit.)
  • 2014, ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship