David W. Robinson-Morris, Ph.D. is the inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth. He joined Dartmouth in January 2024 with a background in higher education leadership, fund development, intellectual and community engagement initiatives, and institutional transformational.  

Dr. Robinson-Morris is a scholar-activist, author, philosopher, social justice and human rights advocate, educator, philanthropist, community organizer, DEI practitioner, and administrator. In the vein of Fred Moten and other Black scholars, he understands that to be Black is to be limitless—it is the perpetual practice of an onto-epistemological refusal of limits imposed from elsewhere. For him, Black being, intellectual life, and culture are a brilliant (r)evolution always already in the making—propelling toward justice and the infinite.