Geoff Ward

Geoff Ward is Professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, with faculty affiliations in Sociology and American Culture Studies. As director of the WashU & Slavery Project, he leads initiatives with the Universities Studying Slavery consortium. His scholarship examines historical racial violence, transitional justice, and reparative memory work through grants from the

• National Science Foundation
• National Institute of Justice
• Ford Foundation
• Mellon Foundation

Research interests focus on racialized violence legacies, anti-racist memory practices, and democratic crime control. Recent publications analyze lynching continuities in Southern schools, coroner narratives in postbellum justice, and environmental impacts of historical racism. Creative projects include

• Memory for the Future public humanities lab
• Monumental Anti-Racism StoryMap
• Racial Violence Archive digital resource

Scientific awards include

• Michael J. Hindelang Book Award (2013)
• Outstanding Book Prize, History of Education Society (2013)

Committed to engaged scholarship through

• National Monument Audit advisory board
• Mayor's Commemorative Landscape Taskforce
• Reparative Justice Coalition of St. Louis