Henry Louis Taylor Portrait

Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Director, Center for Urban Studies and Associate Director, UB Community Health Equity Research Institute

Professor Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., is a internationally recognized historian, urban planner, and professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. He is director of the Center for Urban Studies and Associate Director of the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute. Taylor has written or edited five books and over 100 articles and technical reports. He has been cited in many national publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, USA Today, The Atlantic, the Huffington Post, and Time Magazine. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, CBS Mornings News, CNN, and MSNBC. Taylor is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2018 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award by the Urban Affairs Association, the nation’s largest urban studies organization. He is completing a book, From Harlem to Havana: the Nehanda Isoke Abiodun Story (SUNY Press).