Terrence Johnson
Steven M. Polan Fellow in Constitutional Law and History
Terrence L. Johnson is the Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School. He is a faculty associate of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and affiliate faculty of the American Studies Program.
He is the author of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue(2022, winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the); We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter (2021); and Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (2012).
Along with writing scholarly articles, Johnson has written for or appeared on CBS This Morning, Salon, NPR, and the Literary Hub. He is also a member of the Corporation of Haverford College.
A graduate of Morehouse College, Johnson received his MDiv from Harvard Divinity School and his PhD in religious studies from Brown University.
Terrence L. Johnson is a 2024-25 Steven M. Polan Fellow in Constitutional Law and History. For more information about the Polan Fellowship, click here.