Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. is currently the Chair of the Center for African American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. Widely regarded as one of the brightest young intellectuals in the US today, Glaude offers a critical and insightful view on the problems currently facing black America as well as the nation at large. He is the author of several books. His latest award winning book, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, has been characterized as a tour de force – establishing him as “one of the most visionary thinkers of our time.” According to Cornel West, “Eddie Glaude is the towering intellectual of his generation. There is simply no one else like him emerging on the intellectual scene!"

Students see Glaude’s passion for teaching in the classroom, in courses such as “Black Power and Its Theology of Liberation” and “Religion and the Tradition of Social Theory.” Later, if they work with Glaude on their senior theses, they get an opportunity to join a unique learning partnership. For Glaude, it’s definitely a situation of give and take. He’s cited students’ research in his own work, and even used a student’s thesis as an epigraph for his latest book. “If you have a wonderful relationship with a student,” he says, “you want to generate an environment where you’re engaged in the exchanging of ideas. You don’t want to reproduce hierarchy. I’ve learned so much working independently with students.”

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