Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
grant-thomas.1@osu.edu
Andrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute. He directs the Institute’s internal operations and oversees much of its US-based programming. His substantive interests include structural racism/racialization and systems thinking; implicit bias and racial communications; race and popular culture; multiracial alliance-building; and African American males and gender dynamics within the African American community.
Andrew serves as Associate Editor of the Institute’s journal, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, and edited Twenty-first Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America, published in 2008 by Temple University Press. He contributes regularly to WOSU Radio and to blogs that include Race-Talk, the Huffington Post, Racewire, and Imagine2050 and sits on the boards of a number of nonprofit organizations and social justice initiatives. Andrew came to the Kirwan Institute in February of 2006 from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, where he directed the Color Lines Conference and managed a range of policy-oriented racial justice projects. He received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University, his M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
