Reginald Hildebrand

Reginald Hildebrand is Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Howard University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. The focus of his research is the period of Emancipation and Reconstruction, although he is now working on a collection of essays on W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, and the theologian Howard Thurman. Hildebrand has served as interim Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC Chapel Hill, and as interim chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute of African American Research at that university.  He is also co-chair of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project. Hildebrand makes his home in Durham.