Jarvis Givens is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Suzanne Young Murray assistant professor at the Radcliffe Institute, and a faculty affiliate in the department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. He is a two-time Ford Foundation fellow and an MMUF fellow, having earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Givens' research falls at the intersection of 19th and 20th century African American history, the history of education, and critical theories of race and education. He is the author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press, 2021), and co-editor of We Dare Say Love: Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys (Columbia's Teachers College Press, 2018). His scholarship has also appeared in various academic journals, including American Education Research Journal, Race Ethnicity and Education, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics Culture and Society, and Harvard Educational Review. Professor Givens is the recent recipient of a $610, 000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner with Professor Imani Perry (Princeton University) in building a digital archive to preserve the records of "Colored Teacher Associations." Professor Givens is originally from Compton, California and currently lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts.