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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

Email Address
afam.studies@yale.edu

Crystal Feimster

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies

Office Location: 81 Wall Street
Phone: 203-436-3563
Email: crystal.feimster@yale.edu

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000

Crystal Feimster, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000, is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies. Feimster’s academic focus is racial and sexual violence; currently, she is completing a project on rape during the American Civil War. Her book, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, focuses on two women journalists, Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.

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