Vera Ingrid Grant

Vera Ingrid Grant is Executive Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University (on leave 2011-12). She is currently working on a research project in Modern European History – "Fused Encounters: Transnational Race in the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany, 1918–1923" Her MA and further graduate work in Modern European History was at Stanford University; Her BA in both History and Art was at CCNY. Grant also spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Universität Hamburg, Germany and gave lectures last spring on "the Interrogation of Race and Gender in 20th C. Images and Texts in Germany" in Bonn, Germany and Basel, Switzerland. She is also a 2011-12 Visiting Scholar at the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy at Columbia Law School, Columbia University.