Fredrick C. Harris's research interests include American Politics with a focus on political participation, social movements, religion and politics, political development, and African-American politics. Publications include Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism (Oxford University Press, 1999), which was awarded the V.O. Key Award for the Best Book on Southern Politics by the Southern Political Science Association, the Distinguished Book Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Best Book Award by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists; Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian McKenzie (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists; and Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment with R. Drew Smith (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

Recently published articles include “The Macro Dynamics of Black Political Participation in the Post-Civil Rights Era” with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian McKenzie in the Journal of Politics; “It Takes a Tragedy to Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action during the Civil Rights Movement” in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest; and “Black Leadership and the Second Redemption” in Society. He is co-editor with Cathy Cohen of the Oxford University Press book series "Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities." His current book project is on black activism in the wake of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, which is tentatively titled Blood on the Fields: The Lynching of Emmett Louis Till and the Rise of Black Insurgency. Harris received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

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Professor Harris office is located at 732 IAB
Phone: (212) 854-6593
E-mail: fh2170@columbia.edu