Fredrick Cornelius Harris is an American political scientist specializing in

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politics. He is the Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science and former Dean of Faculty for Social Sciences at

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. He also serves as Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society at Columbia.

Biography

Harris received his B.A. from the

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and Ph.D. from

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. He taught at the

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from 1994 until joining the Columbia University faculty in 2007. Harris' research focuses on political participation, social movements, the intersection of race and religion and politics, and African American politics. Harris is a recipient of the

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for Nonfiction in 2013 for his book ''The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics''. Harris argued that

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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. Harris is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the

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and served as Vice President of the

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. He was a visiting scholar at the

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between 1998 and 1999.

Works

* ''The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics'' (2012)

References

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