Current Graduate Students

Status
Iman AbdoulKarim's picture Iman AbdoulKarim
Graduate School Student
iman.abdoulkarim@yale.edu
Islam in America; African-American religious history; Black feminist theory; race and gender in Islamic thought; public humanities
Minali Aggarwal's picture Minali Aggarwal
Graduate School Student
minali.aggarwal@yale.edu
Joshua Aiken's picture 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's picture Stephane Andrade
stephane.andrade@yale.edu
Ethnography; Urban & Community Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; Poverty; Inequality; Neighborhoods; Personal Networks; Qualitative Methods
Kaelyn Apple's picture Kaelyn Apple
kaelyn.apple@yale.edu
Black British History, Motherhood, Body Politics, Racial Injustice, and Early Modern Legal History
Hamzah Baig's picture Hamzah Baig
hamzah.baig@yale.edu
Middle East and North Africa
Jorge Banuelos's picture Jorge Banuelos
Graduate School Student
jorge.banuelos@yale.edu
19th & 20th Century Black Intellectual History; African-American Sociology of Religion; Black Political Economy & Political Theory; Philosophy of Religion; Critical Phenomenology
Andie Berry's picture Andie Berry
andie.berry@yale.edu
20th/21st century African American dramatic literature, theater history; performance studies; speculation and the speculative; trauma studies. 
Ruthie Block's picture Ruthie Block
ruthie.block@yale.edu
Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black Diasporic Literature; Black Feminist Archival Studies; Black Print Culture
Candace Borders's picture 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's picture Da'Von Boyd
davon.boyd@yale.edu
African American Political Theory, Black Feminist Theory, Black Relision in Social Movements
Tyler Campbell's picture Tyler Campbell
tyler.campbell@yale.edu
20th/21st century African American Literature, Black Poetics, Social Movement Histories, Prison Writing, Jazz/Hip-Hop Studies, Public Humanities
Shefali Gauri Das's picture Shefali Gauri Das
shefali.das@yale.edu
Racial Capitalism, Policing, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, State Violence
Elizabeth Durrant's picture Elizabeth Durrant
elizabeth.durrant@yale.edu
Black and women composers, Black feminism, 20th and 21st century music, neoromantic music, literature, Black Chicago Renaissance, American song
Alex Fialho's picture Alex Fialho

alex.fialho@yale.edu
Contemporary art, activist artistic response, HIV/AIDS scholarship, critical race studies, queer theory
Dustin Gavin's picture Dustin Gavin
dustin.gavin@yale.edu
American Religious History
William Glasspiegel's picture William Glasspiegel
william.glasspiegel@yale.edu
Kristine Guillaume's picture Kristine Guillaume
kristine.guillaume@yale.edu
20th and 21st century African American and Black diasporic literature, prison writing, Black political thought, life-writing
Alycia Hall's picture 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
Gabrielle Hill's picture Gabrielle Hill
gabrielle.hill@yale.edu
Black Feminist Theory; 19th Century to 21st Century African American Poetry; Speculative Fiction; Eco-Criticism; Eco-Poetics
Conor Hodges's picture Conor Hodges
conor.hodges@yale.edu
20th Century U.S. History, Carceral Studies, Military History, Black Freedom Struggle, Insurgency & Counterinsurgency, Wars on Crime, Drugs, and Terror
Josie Hodson's picture Josie Hodson
josie.hodson@yale.edu
African Diasporic Art; Modern; Contemporary; African American Art
Isaac Jean-Francois's picture Isaac Jean-Francois
isaac.jean-francois@yale.edu
Black studies, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory, and Sound Studies
Michelle Johnson's picture 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's picture Kassidi Jones
kassidi.jones@yale.edu
19th-Century African American Ecopoetics and Georgia Douglas Johnson.
Micah Jones's picture Micah Jones
micah.jones@yale.edu
African American History; Southern History; Black Women’s History, Social Movement History, History of Consumption
Sam Jones's picture Sam Jones
Graduate School Student
sam.jones@yale.edu
Black Europe; Black transnationalism; African-American travel, particularly in Europe; postcolonial theory; memory studies
Alison Kibbe's picture 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
Jeong Yeon Lee's picture 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's picture Demar F. Lewis IV

demar.lewis@yale.edu
Website
Areas of Interest: Policing, Race & Ethnictiy, Inequality, Lynching & Historical Racial Violence, Urban Sociology, Law & Society, Du Boisian Sociology, Political Sociology, Multiple Methods (Archival, Interviews, Statistical)
Sophia Lindner's picture Sophia Lindner
sophia.lindner@yale.edu
Race and racial ideology, culture and media, mechanisms of racial stratification
Faith Macharia's picture Faith Macharia
faith.macharia@yale.edu
transnational migrations; Africans in Europe, specifically Spain and Italy; ethnographic methods; citizenship and identity.
Jathan Martin's picture Jathan Martin
Graduate School Student
jathan.martin@yale.edu
Black Religious Performance, Material and Visual Culture, African American Childhoods, Death and Racialized Terror
Cedric McCoy's picture Cedric McCoy
cedric.mccoy@yale.edu
Performances of Race and Gender, Sound Studies, Media Studies, Queer Studies, Black Feminisms, Afro-Diasporic popular musics, popular culture, public humanities, equitable scholarship
Christoph' McFadden's picture Christoph' McFadden
Graduate School Student
christoph.mcfadden@yale.edu
African American gospel traditions, history of the black church, 20th and 21st century popular music, celebrity studies, media studies, black theology
Jessie Modi's picture Jessie Modi
jessica.modi@yale.edu
20th/21st-century African American and black diasporic literature; poetry and poetics; history of the book; Marxism; media studies; creative writing
Lucia Olubunmi Momoh's picture Lucia Olubunmi Momoh
luciaolubunmi.momoh@yale.edu
Website
Portraiture, contemporary art, critical theory, the long nineteenth century, the Haitian Revolution, the Caribbean, the US South, New Orleans
Jeania Ree Moore's picture Jeania Ree Moore
jeaniaree.moore@yale.edu
Religious Studies; Theology; Black Studies; Popular Romance Studies; Animals and Religion
Tauren Nelson's picture Tauren Nelson
Graduate School Student
tauren.nelson@yale.edu
Second Year PhD Student; African American Studies and Anthropology
Maryam Parhizkar's picture Maryam Parhizkar

maryam.parhizkar@yale.edu
Website
Black studies; Latinx studies; Central American studies; comparative/relational ethnic studies; aesthetics, poetics & performance; possession and property; histories & theories of the human subject; critical-creative practice; cultural institutions and redress; public humanities
Olivia Polk's picture 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's picture Katherine Ponds
katherine.ponds@yale.edu
Performance Studies; American Studies; Classical Reception Studies; African-American Literature
Yasmina Price's picture Yasmina Price

yasmina.price@yale.edu
Afro-Diasporic Cinema, affect and flesh, Black Marxism, anti-colonialism
Jocelyn Proietti's picture Jocelyn Proietti
jocelyn.proietti@yale.edu
Visual art, literature, cultural history, and black feminist performances of self
Teanu Reid's picture Teanu Reid
teanu.reid@yale.edu
17th and 18th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Economic History
Jas Riley's picture Jas Riley
jas.riley@yale.edu
Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Trans Studies, and Religious Studies. 
Maurice Rippel's picture Maurice Rippel
maurice.rippel@yale.edu
Race, Gender; African Diaspora; Citizenship; Education; Multimodal Ethnography
Gabriel Rivera Cotto's picture Gabriel Rivera Cotto
Graduate School Student
gabriel.riveracotto@yale.edu
18th and 19th-century Puerto Rican History, Caribbean History and Literature, Slavery and Emancipation
Ben Slightom's picture 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's picture Cera Smith

cera.smith@yale.edu
Website
U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, and Body Studies.
Babette Thomas's picture Babette Thomas
An artist, radio producer and doctoral student in the departments of American and African-American Studies
babette.thomas@yale.edu
Black radio history; public humanities; sound studies; radio studies; media studies; new media studies; Black feminist theory; affect theory
Alexandra Thomas's picture 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
Taylor Thompson's picture Taylor Thompson
Graduate School Student
taylor.thompson.twt9@yale.edu
Black Feminism, Black Theories, Oral Histories, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies
Christopher Valentine's picture Christopher Valentine
Graduate School Student
christopher.valentine@yale.edu
Black Queer Studies, Black Feminism, Archival Studies, HIV/AIDS Scholarship
Nala Williams's picture Nala Williams

nala.williams@yale.edu
Black feminist theory, Black feminist geographies, Black studies, critical race theory, alter/native anthropology
Devin Williams's picture Devin Williams
Graduate School Student
devin.williams@yale.edu
Black Studies, Critical University Studies, Theories of Knowledge and Power, Disciplinarity and Difference, Social and Institutional Movements
Connor Williams's picture Connor Williams
connor.williams@yale.edu

Erica Edwards
Director of Graduate Studies
erica.edwards@yale.edu

Naomi McWilliams
Academic Support Assistant (Registrar)
203-432-1170
naomi.mcwilliams@yale.edu

Graduate Student Liaisons
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Kristine Guillaume   Jorge Banuelos