Andrew M. Davenport is the Acting Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Davenport continues as Director of African American History and the Getting Word Oral History Project during this interim post. He has published academic articles on Ralph Ellison in mid-century New York City, Thomas Jefferson’s death and its legacies, and the influence of Black literature on post-World War II French culture. He has also published in Lapham’s Quarterly, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Smithsonian Magazine. 

Davenport serves on the Board of Directors of the American Agora Foundation (Lapham’s Quarterly) and is a member of the inaugural cohort of the White House Historical Association Next-Gen Leadership Ambassadors. He earned a B.A. in English from Kenyon College, an M.A. in American Studies from Fairfield University, and an M.A. in U.S. History from Georgetown University. Davenport is a Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. History at Georgetown.