Rate My Professor Carla Martin

Carla D. Martin is a Lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in African and African American Studies and her M.A. and B.A. in Social Anthropology, all from Harvard University. Martin's research as a socially engaged anthropologist focuses on the ethics of labor in cocoa and chocolate production, drawing from anti-colonial thought, the Black radical tradition, contemporary social science, and histories of ethical movements. Previously, her work examined the politics of language and music in Cabo Verde and its diaspora. She has published in academic journals including Management Information Systems Quarterly, Social Dynamics, Land, Socio.hu, and Transition: An International Review, as well as in Anthropology News and several edited volumes. Martin founded and serves as President of the Board of the Institute for Cacao and Chocolate Research, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing information asymmetry in the cocoa-chocolate value chain. She lectures widely and has taught in African and African American Studies, critical food studies, social anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Her teaching excellence has been recognized with awards including The Harvard Crimson's Professor of the Year and the Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching. Martin is currently a Principal Investigator on the research project “Towards a Cocoa Producer-Focused Climate Policy in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.” Her public scholarship includes book-length reports, white papers, policy briefs, translations, podcasts, and video presentations featured by organizations such as the National Park Service and Harvard Museums.