Myrick-Harris, Clarissa

Dr. Clarissa Myrick-Harris is a higher education administrator, scholar/activist and public historian whose research and publications focus on Intersectionality and African American leadership during the Civil Rights and Black Power/Black Arts Movement.

Dr. Myrick-Harris’s career includes positions chair of the Humanities Division at Morehouse College, as interim associate provost of Strategic Academic Initiatives and Graduate Studies, Lincoln University, Missouri (2019) and provost at Savannah State University (2016-17). During her earlier tenure at Morehouse College (2012-16), she was Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, the first woman academic dean at the institution; and then Associate Provost for Pedagogical and Curricular Initiatives. In addition to her current position at Morehouse, she is the convener of the Committee to Commemorate the Atlanta Student Movement, which has developed the Atlanta Student Movement Initiative to share the stories and lessons of student activism of the 1960s. She is the co-leader of the Global Issues Honors Consortium (GIHC), the third iteration of an initiative she first led in partnership with University of Minnesota Twin Cities over two decades ago to help prepare students for graduate study and careers related to international affairs. Myrick-Harris is the college’s lead organizer of the Morehouse/Points of Light initiative Listen Learn Act to End Racism, which is convening a series of virtual conversations with scholar/activists, community activists, social justice leaders, and corporate supporters to raise awareness of the historical and present day manifestations of systemic racism and social injustices. The initiative highlights effective initiatives and critical action steps that can be taken to help end systemic racism.