Faculty Listing | Department of African American Studies

Department of African American Studies
Yale University
PO Box 208212
New Haven, CT 06520-8212

Telephone and Fax
Phone: 203.432.1177
Fax: 203.432.2102

Faculty Listing

Faculty by fields of interest

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	Elizabeth Alexander Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of African American Studies & Professor American Studies & English 81 Wall St Elizabeth.Alexander@yale.edu 203-432-9060	20th-century poetry, African American literature and culture
	Jafari Allen Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology 10 Sachem Street, Room 114 jafari.allen@yale.edu (203) 432-4847	Black Feminism, Caribbean, Critical Cultural Studies, Cuba, Diaspora, Gender, Queer Theory, Sexuality
	Elijah Anderson William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology 493 College St., Room 303 elijah.anderson@yale.edu 203-432-3321	Sociology, Urban Ethnography
	GerShun Avilez Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English Linsly-Chittenden Hall \| 63 High Street, Rm. 416 gershun.avilez@yale.edu 203-432-2234	Gender and Sexuality Studies, Legal Studies, Spatial Theory, Visual and Cultural Studies
	David Blight Class of 1954 Professor of American History HGS 104, ALW 214 (GLC) david.blight@yale.edu 203-432-3339	American Civil War, American South, Race and Culture, Antebellum America, Slave narratives, autobiography, American Studies
	Hazel V. Carby Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization 81 Wall Street, Rm 306 hazel.carby@yale.edu 203-432-9059	Genres of science fiction, Race, gender and sexuality in the culture and literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora, representations of the black female body, transnational and postcolonial literature and theory
	Kamari Maxine Clarke Professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Law School, Chair of the Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center 10 Sachem Street, Room 224 Kamari.Clarke@yale.edu (203) 432-3685	Anthropology Culture and Power, Transnational Legal Movements, Diasporic Religious Movements, Transnationalism and Globalization, Contemporary Social Theory, Religion and Modernity, Legal Anthropology, Nigeria and the Postcolonial State (Yoruba Traditional and Islamic Movements), Diasporic Yoruba Religious Practices; USA (Ethnic and Racial Power Contestations); United Nations International Treaty-making), The International Criminal Court, Asylum and Refugeeism, China-Africa nexus.
	Kathleen Neal Cleaver Senior Lecturer in African American Studies and a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Law School 81 Wall Street, Rm 305 kathleen.cleaver@yale.edu 203-432-1170	Law and legal history, Social Justice and human rights
	Crystal Feimster Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies 81 Wall Street crystal.feimster@yale.edu 203-436-3563	African-American History, American Civil War, American South and Gender, American South, Race and Culture, American Studies
	Terri Francis Associate Professor of Film Studies and African American Studies 81 Wall Street \| Room 218 terri.francis@yale.edu 203-432-7193	Media Studies History and aesthetics of African Diaspora cinema, literature and culture