Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. is currently the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, he taught at Bowdoin College and Amherst College in African American Studies and Religion. He received his BA from Morehouse College, his MA and PhD from Princeton University.

He is the author of Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America, recipient of the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize for outstanding scholarly study of black cultural life and/or literature; co-editor with Cornel West of African American Religious Thought: An Anthology; and editor of Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism. His latest book, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, has been characterized as a tour de force - establishing him as "one of the most visionary thinkers of our time." Glaude is also a regular commentator on The Tavis Smiley Show on PRI.

Born on the coast of Mississippi, in a small town called Moss Point, Glaude brings to his scholarship and public service a sense of passion and vocation shaped by the tradition of African American struggle. As a graduate of Morehouse College, he was inspired by the courage and devotion of Martin Luther King, Jr., the institution's most famous graduate.
According to Dr. Cornel West, "Eddie Glaude is the towering intellectual of his generation. There is simply no else like him emerging on the intellectual scene!"