Michael Ralph

Michael Ralph is the Cameron Schrier Professor and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. Michael is also the Founding Director of the Center for an Equitable Economy and Sustainable Society (e2s2) at Howard University. His research integrates political science, economics, history, and medical and economic anthropology through an explicit focus on debt, slavery, insurance, forensics, and incarceration.

Michael is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in US History and W.E.B. Dubois Center, the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Studies in Capitalism at the New School for Social Research.