Judson L. Jeffries is Professor of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. He earned his PhD in political science at the University of Southern California.

Professor Jeffries’s interests include police-community relations, race and medicine to state violence and revolutionary movements of the 1960s. Among the places Professor Jeffries has taught and held fellowships include the JFK School of Government at Harvard University, Morehouse College, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia, the RAND Corporation, and Monterey Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Professor Jeffries has received numerous awards over the years including Faculty Advisor of the Year, Teacher of the Year, and the Frank W. Hale Leadership Award.

He is the author, co-author, and editor of 9 books, many journal articles as well as book chapters and newspaper articles. His most recent work is a co-edited book with Shannon Cochran and Molly Reinhoudt titled, Feel My Big Guitar: Prince and the Sound he helped Create. He is editor-in-chief of Spectrum, A Journal on Black Men.