An associate professor of history at Cornell University, Russell Rickford specializes in African American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements. His latest book, A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s, was released by the University of North Carolina Press in 2026. His previous monograph, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination, received the 2016 Hooks Institute National Book Award and the 2017 OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award.
Russell Rickford
