[1] He also serves as Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society at Columbia.
[1] Harris is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction in 2013 for his book The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics.
[3] Harris argued that Barack Obama became the first African American President by denying that he was the candidate of African Americans, thereby downplaying many of the social justice issues that are central to black political movements.
[4] Harris is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association.
[5] He was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation between 1998 and 1999.