Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D.

Andrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute. He directs the Institute’s internal operations and overseeing many of its programmatic initiatives. His substantive projects include work on the nature of structural racism; the potential for forging constructive alliances between immigrants and African Americans; and responses to further school re‐segregation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Seattle/Louisville desegregation cases. He serves as Associate Editor of the Institute’s journal, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, and represents the Institute within OSU and before national and community groups. He came to Kirwan Institute in February of 2006 from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University where he directed the Color Lines Conference: Segregation and Integration in America’s Present and Future, 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.