Imani Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar who studies race, law, literature, and African American culture. She holds the position of Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and serves as a columnist for The Atlantic. Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. In October 2023, she was named a MacArthur Fellow, an honor recognizing individuals who show exceptional creativity and promise for future achievement.