Dr. GlaudeEddie S. Glaude Jr. (find him on Twitter!) joined the faculty in 2002. He is the author of Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America, University of Chicago Press, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, University of Chicago Press (2007), African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, and editor of Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism, University of Chicago Press.

Professor Glaude co-edited African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, (2004) with Cornel West. His newest book is Democracy in Black, Crown Publishing.

In 2009 he was awarded Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. His research interests include American pragmatism, specifically the work of John Dewey, and African American religious history and its place in American public life.