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Imani Perry

Imani Perry (born September 5, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. She is currently the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and a columnist for ''The Atlantic''. Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for ''South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation''. In October 2023, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Provided by Wikipedia