Leslie M. Harris

Leslie M. Harris is Professor of History at Northwestern University, specializing in African American history, slavery studies, and urban social history. She holds a PhD from Stanford University (1995) and has published award-winning works including In the Shadow of Slavery and edited volumes on slavery's institutional legacies.

Her research examines race, gender, and power dynamics in northern U.S. cities, with groundbreaking contributions to public history through exhibitions like the New-York Historical Society's 'Slavery in New York'. She co-founded Emory University's Transforming Community Project addressing racial diversity in academia.

Honors include the Wesley-Logan Prize and multiple awards for Slavery and Freedom in Savannah. She teaches courses on African American labor history and historical representations of slavery.