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Before joining Washington University in St. Louis in 1998 in the departments of English and African & African American Studies and the Program in American Culture Studies, Dr. Rafia Zafar was a professor at the University of Michigan.

Currently she is Faculty Director of Washington University's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program.

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Zafar has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Virginia Center for the Humanities and in 2007 held the Walt Whitman Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

In 2014-2015 she was National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Dr. Zafar’s major publications include God Made Man, Man Made the Slave (co-editor; Mercer 1990); Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (co-editor; Cambridge UP, 1996); We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American L