Eddie Glaude | |
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![]() Glaude in Manhattan, 2019 | |
Born | Moss Point, Mississippi, U.S. | September 4, 1968
Academic background | |
Education | Morehouse College (BA) Temple University (MA) Princeton University (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Bowdoin College Princeton University |
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (born September 4,1968) is an American academic,author,and pundit. He is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. He chaired Princeton's Center for African American Studies from 2009-2015,and continued in the position from 2015-2023 as it expanded to its current form,the department of African American Studies. [1] [2] [3]
He has written five books and edited two more books. He has written articles for Time and Huffington Post . He is a contributor to Morning Joe and Deadline:White House on MSNBC. [1]
Glaude was born in Moss Point,Mississippi. [4] [5] His father,Eddie Glaude Sr.,served as a member of the United States Navy in Vietnam,then worked for the United States Postal Service after returning home. His mother left school during the eighth grade after getting pregnant. She worked as a supervisor of a cleaning crew at a shipyard. [6] [7]
Eddie Jr. has one brother and one sister. His sister,four years older than he is,was born severely disabled,and has been taken care of at home by her mother since birth. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Glaude graduated from high school at 16 and in 1989 received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He then earned a master's degree in African-American studies from Temple University in Philadelphia and a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University. [12]
Glaude began his teaching career at Bowdoin College in Brunswick,Maine. He chaired the department of religion at the college. He joined the faculty of Princeton University. He is a distinguished professor of African American Studies at Princeton. He was the chairperson of the university's Center for African American Studies from 2009 to 2015 and the inaugural chairperson of its department of African American Studies from 2015-2023. [1] [2] [3] [13] In 2015,he received an honorary doctor of human letters from Colgate University. [14] He serves on the Morehouse Board of Trustees. [15]
Glaude has made television appearances on The Tavis Smiley Show , Hannity &Colmes ,CNN,C-SPAN,and Meet the Press . He has appeared in the documentary Stand,produced and directed by Tavis Smiley;Glaude appeared in the documentary Join or Die. He has been a contributor to Time and Huffington Post. He is a contributor on Morning Joe and Deadline:White House. [1]
Glaude supported Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' candidacy for the 2016 U.S. Democratic Party nomination for U.S. president. In a December 2016 interview with the Mississippi Press he said,"Of the candidates that were present in the primaries,all of the folks who ran for the presidency,I thought Bernie Sanders was perhaps the person most closely aligned with my positions and what I thought the country needs at this present moment." [16]
In a July 12,2016 article for Time magazine,"My Democratic Problem with Voting for Hillary Clinton," Glaude said that he would not be voting for 2016 U.S. Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. He wrote that he considered her a "a corporate Democrat intent on maintaining the status quo." [17] His byline was removed from the article.[ citation needed ]
Glaude is married to Winnifred Brown-Glaude,professor of sociology and chair of African American Studies at The College of New Jersey. They have one child,a son named Langston Ellis Glaude,who graduated Brown University. [18] [19] [20]
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