Current Graduate Students

			Status
	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 Graduate School Student minali.aggarwal@yale.edu
	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		Black British History, Motherhood, Body Politics, Racial Injustice, and Early Modern 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
	Shefali Gauri Das shefali.das@yale.edu		Racial Capitalism, Policing, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, State Violence
	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.
	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 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
	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 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
	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 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
	Micah Jones micah.jones@yale.edu		African American History; Southern History; Black Women’s History, Social Movement History, History of Consumption
	Sam Jones Graduate School Student sam.jones@yale.edu		Black Europe; Black transnationalism; African-American travel, particularly in Europe; postcolonial theory; memory studies
	Kassidi Jones kassidi.jones@yale.edu		19th-Century African American Ecopoetics and Georgia Douglas Johnson.
	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 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 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.
	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 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
	Jeania Ree Moore jeaniaree.moore@yale.edu		Religious Studies; Theology; Black Studies; Popular Romance Studies; Animals and Religion
	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
	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
	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 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.
	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		Black radio history; public humanities; sound studies; radio studies; media studies; new media studies; Black feminist theory; affect theory
	Taylor Thompson Graduate School Student taylor.thompson.twt9@yale.edu		Black Feminism, Black Theories, Oral Histories, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies
	Connor Williams connor.williams@yale.edu
	Nala Williams nala.williams@yale.edu		Black feminist theory, Black feminist geographies, Black studies, critical race theory, alter/native anthropology
	Devin Williams Graduate School Student devin.williams@yale.edu		Race & Ethnicity, Sociology of Education, Critical University Studies, Critical Race Theory, Racial (in)equity, Power Structures
	Teona Williams teona.williams@yale.edu		U.S environmental history, political ecology, race and ethnic studies, environmental justice, digital humanities, and African American history