Current Graduate Students

			Status
	Joshua Aiken joshua.aiken@yale.edu		19th and 20th Century U.S. History, Race and Migration in the Americas, Mass Criminalization, U.S. Empire, Black Feminist Thought, Black Poetics, Black Marxism and Queer of Color Critiques
	Stephane Andrade stephane.andrade@yale.edu		Ethnography; Urban & Community Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; Poverty; Inequality; Neighborhoods; Personal Networks; Qualitative Methods
	Kaelyn Apple kaelyn.apple@yale.edu		Body Politics, Racial Injustice, and Legal History
	Hamzah Baig hamzah.baig@yale.edu		Middle East and North Africa
	Andie Berry andie.berry@yale.edu		20th/21st century African American dramatic literature, theater history; performance studies; speculation and the speculative; trauma studies.
	Candace Borders candace.borders@yale.edu		Black Studies, Black Feminist Theory, 20th-century African American women’s history, oral history, public humanities
	Da'Von Boyd davon.boyd@yale.edu		African American Political Theory, Black Feminist Theory, Black Relision in Social Movements
	Bianca Dang bianca.dang@yale.edu		Haitian Studies, 19th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Feminist Thought, Gender Studies, Migration Studies
	Ambre Dromgoole ambre.dromgoole@yale.edu Website		20th/21st Century Music and Performance; Holiness/Pentecostal Traditions; Women and Gender; Popular Culture; Voice Studies; Sonic Spirituality.
	Anna Duensing anna.duensing@yale.edu		20th Century United States History; African American History Since 1865; Modern German History; the US Military and American Empire; Public Humanities; Comparative Race and Diaspora; Studies; Immigration; Popular Culture and Mass Media
	Alex Fialho alex.fialho@yale.edu		Contemporary art, activist artistic response, HIV/AIDS scholarship, critical race studies, queer theory
	Dustin Gavin dustin.gavin@yale.edu		American Religious History
	William Glasspiegel william.glasspiegel@yale.edu
	Amanda Joyce Hall amanda.j.hall@yale.edu		20th Century U.S. social and political history; the Black Freedom Struggle; the Black Radical Tradition; Digital Humanities; international history; cultural and sports history; history of South Africa; decolonization; histories of diaspora, transnational movements, and world governance
	Alycia Hall alycia.hall@yale.edu		Maroon Studies, Jamaican History, Caribbean History, 18th and 19th-Century African American History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Slavery and Emancipation
	Clara Hawken clara.wilson-hawken@yale.edu		20th-Century Popular Music; Black Feminism; Racial Capitalism; Social/Economic Policy; Black Studies; Performance Studies; Labor Studies; Sound Studies
	Josie Hodson josie.hodson@yale.edu		African Diasporic Art; Modern; Contemporary; African American Art
	Isaac Jean-Francois isaac.jean-francois@yale.edu		Black studies, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory, and Sound Studies
	Michelle Johnson michelle.johnson@yale.edu		20th Century United States social and political history; African American history since 1865; Black women's history; the Black Freedom Struggle; Freedom North studies; United States urban history
	Kassidi Jones kassidi.jones@yale.edu		19th-Century African American Ecopoetics and Georgia Douglas Johnson.
	Micah Jones micah.jones@yale.edu
	Erich Kessel erich.kessel@yale.edu		Antiblackness; aesthetics; contemporary art and media; theories and histories of capitalism, labor and the commodity; psychoanalysis and affect theory; embodiment; philosophies of the subject.
	Micah Khater micah.khater@yale.edu Website		19th and 20th Century African American History; Southern History; Carceral Studies; Black Feminist Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Cultural History
	Alison Kibbe alison.kibbe@yale.edu		Migration and Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Black feminism, Ethnography and Oral History, Performance Studies, Body Studies, Transnationalism, Citizenship
	Rachel Laryea rachel.laryea@yale.edu		Black capitalists in the trans-Atlantic financial industry
	Jeong Yeon Lee jeongyeon.lee@yale.edu		19th-Century American and African American Literature, Early American Literature, Christian Theology, Violence, Critical Race Studies, Black Studies
	Demar F. Lewis IV demar.lewis@yale.edu		Prisoner Reentry; Inequality; Racial Politics; Urban Sociology; Sociology of Law
	Sophia Lindner sophia.lindner@yale.edu		Race and racial ideology, culture and media, mechanisms of racial stratification
	Faith Macharia faith.macharia@yale.edu		transnational migrations; Africans in Europe, specifically Spain and Italy; ethnographic methods; citizenship and identity.
	Shayne McGregor shayne.mcgregor@yale.edu		20th-/21st-Century American Literature; Black Literary History; Afrofuturism
	Nathalie Miraval nathalie.miraval@yale.edu
	Jessie Modi jessica.modi@yale.edu		20/21st Century, Poetry & Poetics, Critical Race Studies, History of the Book, Marxism, Postcolonial Studies
	Jeania Ree Moore jeaniaree.moore@yale.edu		Theology; religious studies; African American/Africana studies; aesthetics; animals; ethics
	Maryam Parhizkar maryam.parhizkar@yale.edu Website		Black studies, relational ethnic studies, performance studies, poetics, histories and theories of modernism and modernity
	Olivia Polk olivia.polk@yale.edu		Black feminist theory, queer theory, 19th and 20th century African American literature, black visual culture, gender and sexuality studies, performance studies, affect and materiality, faggotry, femmes, sexual subcultures
	Katherine Ponds katherine.ponds@yale.edu		Performance Studies; American Studies; Classical Reception Studies; African-American Literature
	Yasmina Price yasmina.price@yale.edu		Afro-Diasporic Cinema, affect and flesh, Black Marxism, anti-colonialism
	Jocelyn Proietti jocelyn.proietti@yale.edu		Visual art, literature, cultural history, and black feminist performances of self
	Gwen Prowse gwen.prowse@yale.edu		Black politics; federalism; policing; urban politics; participatory methods
	Teanu Reid teanu.reid@yale.edu		17th and 18th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Economic History
	Jas Riley jas.riley@yale.edu		Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Trans Studies, and Religious Studies.
	Maurice Rippel maurice.rippel@yale.edu		Race, Gender; African Diaspora; Citizenship; Education; Multimodal Ethnography
	jub Sankofa justin.christopher@yale.edu		African American Studies, Late 19th and 20th century Black Women's History, The Black West, U.S. Carceral Regimes, 20th Century Policing, Juvenile Justice, Prison Organizing, Reentry, Confinement Literature, Social Movements, Public Humanities, i.e.. Family and Community Memory, Digital Humanities,
	Ben Slightom ben.slightom@yale.edu Website		Political Anthropology, Afro-pessimism, Post-Industrial Landscapes, Urban Dispossession, and the Racialized Production of the Underclass
	Cera Smith cera.smith@yale.edu		20th-/21st-Century U.S. Ethnic Literatures (especially African American, Black diasporic, Chicanx, and Latinx), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Critical Race Theories, Coloniality/Decoloniality, Black Studies, Body Studies
	Alexandra Thomas alexandra.m.thomas@yale.edu		Contemporary art and performance of Africa and the African diaspora, photography and new media, Black feminist thought, and queer theory
	Babette Thomas An artist, radio producer and doctoral student in the departments of American and African-American Studies babette.thomas@yale.edu
	Teona Williams teona.williams@yale.edu		U.S environmental history, political ecology, race and ethnic studies, environmental justice, digital humanities, and African American history
	Connor Williams connor.williams@yale.edu		US
	Nala Williams nala.williams@yale.edu		Black feminist theory, Black feminist geographies, Black studies, critical race theory, alter/native anthropology