Eddie Glaude

Eddie Steven Glaude Jr. (born September 4, 1968) is an American academic, author, and pundit. He is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the departments of African American studies and religion. At Princeton, Glaude was the inaugural department chair after the Princeton Center for African American Studies became an academic department in 2015; he led the program until stepping down in 2023. Glaude teaches courses across the liberal arts disciplines and has been quoted in the media as a subject-matter expert on racial and religious identity politics in the United States. He has written and edited multiple books published by university presses, has contributed essays to Time, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times, and has appeared on NBC and MS NOW programs such as Morning Joe, Deadline: White House, and Meet the Press.