Anthony Harris, Ed.D.

Anthony Harris, Ed.D.

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Dr. Anthony J. Harris is an author, lecturer, educator and Professor at Prairie View A&M University. From 2021 to 2023, he served as Head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at PVAMU. From 2023 to 2025, he served as Interim Dean of the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education, also at PVAMU. He previously worked as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Southern Mississippi, Texas A&M University-Commerce (now East Texas A&M University), Mercer University, and Sam Houston State University. As an author, he has published 15 books and numerous scholarly articles. Dr. Harris received his bachelor’ degree in Spanish (1974) and master’s degree (1976) in Counseling at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his doctorate (1982) in Counseling from East Texas A&M University. Harris was an active participant in the local civil rights movement in Hattiesburg in the 1960s. He participated in numerous marches and protests, attended the Mt. Zion Freedom School in 1964, and desegregated W.I. Thames Junior High School in 1966. He was inducted into the Hattiesburg (Mississippi) Education Foundation Hall of Fame in 2022. He founded Project Keep Hope Alive, an after-school mentoring program for African American boys in Commerce, Texas, and appeared in the PBS Documentary – Freedom Summer, which originally aired June 24, 2014, on American Experience.