Leonard Harris is a professor of Philosophy at Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

. He also serves as director of the Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. program at the university.

He has previously been a member of the graduate faculty, and former Director of African American Studies at Purdue University. He is a specialist in the philosophical work of Alain LeRoy Locke

Alain LeRoy Locke

Alain LeRoy Locke was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. He is best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is regarded as the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance"...

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Honors

• William Paterson University
  William Paterson University
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  ’s University Distinguished Visiting Professor
  Distinguished Visiting Professor
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  , 2002–2003;
• Non-resident Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
  Harvard University
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  , 2001–2002;
• Fulbright Scholar, Addis Ababa University
  Addis Ababa University
  Addis Ababa University is a university in Ethiopia. It was originally named "University College of Addis Ababa" at its founding, then renamed for the former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I in 1962, receiving its current name in 1975.Although the university has six of its seven campuses within...
  
  , Ethiopia
  Ethiopia
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  , 1998–1999;
• Visiting Scholar
  Visiting scholar
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  , King's College, Cambridge
  King's College, Cambridge
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  , UK, Visiting Scholar, summer 1984,
• Portia Washington Pittman Fellow, Tuskegee Insitutute, 1980–81,
• Moton Center for Independetn Study, Fellow, 1976-77.

Authored

• Alain LeRoy Locke: The Biography of a Philosophy, co-author, C. Molesworth, Chicago University Press, 2008, 448 pp.

Edited

• Philosophy Born of Struggle: Afro-American Philosophy from 1917, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 1984, 316 pp.
• The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999, 357 pp.
• The Philosophy of Alain Locke, Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, Philadelphia: Temple University Press
  Temple University Press
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  , 1989, 332 pp
• American Philosophies, (Co-editor with Anne S. Waters, Scott Pratt), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Company, 2002, 456 pp.
• Racism
  Racism
  Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
  
  , New York: Humanity Press, 1999, 484 pp.