Kris Manjapra is professor of global and transnational history at Tufts University.  Connecting Indian Ocean Studies and Africana Studies, his work sheds light on comparative colonialisms and varieties of decolonizing responses and practices. He is the author of Black Ghost of Empire: The Failure of Emancipation and the Long Death of Slavery (Scribner, 2022), Colonialism in Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2020), Age of Entanglement: Germans and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire (Harvard, 2014), and M.N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2010). He helped establish the Department for Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts. Manjapra builds collaborations across the wall separating the university from wider communities beyond.  He directs the place-based nonprofit, Black History in Action for Cambridgeport, and works with civic organization partners at Project South, Atlanta, and Southern Echo, Jackson, on the Black Futures Matter education project. Manjapra also co-led the Another Tufts Is Possible campaign. He is a member of SSJ's Executive Committee.