Pierre Islam
Yale University
Pierre Islam received his B.A. in History from the Johns Hopkins University in 2009 and his Ph.D. in American History from Yale University in May 2018. Having studied African American intellectual history since the early days of his undergraduate career, he has spent the last several years immersed in the archives of the Library of Congress, the University of Virginia, and Duke University studying primary source material in order to ascertain the contours of black intellectual and political life in the nineteenth century.