Kenneth W. Mack

Kenneth W. Mack (born December 14, 1964) is an American historian and the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2000. He is the author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer, and co-editor of The New Black: What Has Changed--and What Has Not--With Race in America (2012).

Education and early career Kenneth W. Mack grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attended Harrisburg High School and graduated from Central Dauphin East High School in 1982. He enrolled at Drexel University, where he received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1987, and was inducted into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. He then worked as an electrical engineer for Bell Laboratories, where he did Integrated circuit design.

He left Bell Labs to enroll at Harvard Law School, where he earned a J.D., cum laude, in 1991. He served as Executive Editor (Bluebook) of the Harvard Law Review, when his classmate, Barack Obama, served as its president.

In 2010, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Service by Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

Books

Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (2012) The New Black: What Has Changed -- and What Has Not -- with Race in America (2012)