Current Graduate Students
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Iman AbdoulKarim Graduate School Student iman.abdoulkarim@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Islam in America; African-American religious history; Black feminist theory; race and gender in Islamic thought; public humanities | |
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Minali Aggarwal Graduate School Student minali.aggarwal@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Joshua Aiken joshua.aiken@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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 | |
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Kaelyn Apple kaelyn.apple@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black British History, Motherhood, Body Politics, Racial Injustice, and Early Modern Legal History | |
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Hamzah Baig hamzah.baig@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Middle East and North Africa | |
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Jorge Banuelos Graduate School Student jorge.banuelos@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
19th & 20th Century Black Intellectual History; African-American Sociology of Religion; Black Political Economy & Political Theory; Philosophy of Religion; Critical Phenomenology | |
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Ruthie Block ruthie.block@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black Diasporic Literature; Black Feminist Archival Studies; Black Print Culture | |
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Candace Borders candace.borders@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black Studies, Black Feminist Theory, 20th-century African American women’s history, oral history, public humanities | |
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Tyler Campbell tyler.campbell@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
20th/21st century African American Literature, Black Poetics, Social Movement Histories, Prison Writing, Jazz/Hip-Hop Studies, Public Humanities | |
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Christina Cano Graduate School Student christina.cano@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Yohely Comprés Graduate School Student yohely.compreshenriquez@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Shefali Gauri Das shefali.das@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Racial Capitalism, Policing, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, State Violence | |
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Elizabeth Durrant elizabeth.durrant@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black and women composers, Black feminism, 20th and 21st century music, neoromantic music, literature, Black Chicago Renaissance, American song | |
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Naomi Amenu-Fesseha Graduate School Student naomi.fesseha@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Alex Fialho alex.fialho@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Modern and contemporary art, African American art histories, Black feminist and queer theory, AIDS cultural studies | |
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Niara Foster Graduate School Student niara.foster@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Sokeyra Francisco Graduate School Student sokeyra.francisco@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Dustin Gavin dustin.gavin@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
American Religious History | |
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Kristine Guillaume kristine.guillaume@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
20th and 21st century African American and Black diasporic literature, prison writing, Black political thought, life-writing | |
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Gabrielle Hill gabrielle.hill@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black Feminist Theory; 19th Century to 21st Century African American Poetry; Speculative Fiction; Eco-Criticism; Eco-Poetics | |
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Conor Hodges conor.hodges@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
20th Century U.S. History, Carceral Studies, Military History, Black Freedom Struggle, Insurgency & Counterinsurgency, Wars on Crime, Drugs, and Terror | |
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Josie Hodson josie.hodson@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
African Diasporic Art; Modern; Contemporary; African American Art | |
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Makedah Hughes Graduate School Student makedah.hughes@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Isaac Jean-Francois isaac.jean-francois@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black studies, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory, and Sound Studies | |
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Kassidi Jones kassidi.jones@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
19th-Century African American Ecopoetics and Georgia Douglas Johnson | |
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Sam Jones Graduate School Student sam.jones@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black Europe; Black transnationalism; African-American travel, particularly in Europe; postcolonial theory; memory studies | |
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Arabella Katz Graduate School Student arabella.katz@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Alison Kibbe alison.kibbe@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Migration and Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Black feminism, Ethnography and Oral History, Performance Studies, Body Studies, Transnationalism, Citizenship | |
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Jeong Yeon Lee jeongyeon.lee@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
19th-Century American and African American Literature, Early American Literature, Christian Theology, Violence, Critical Race Studies, Black Studies | |
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Sophia Lindner sophia.lindner@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Race and racial ideology, culture and media, mechanisms of racial stratification | |
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Faith Macharia faith.macharia@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
transnational migrations; Africans in Europe, specifically Spain and Italy; ethnographic methods; citizenship and identity. | |
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Jathan Martin Graduate School Student jathan.martin@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black Religious Performance, Material and Visual Culture, African American Childhoods, Death and Racialized Terror | |
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Cedric McCoy cedric.mccoy@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Performances of Race and Gender, Sound Studies, Media Studies, Queer Studies, Black Feminisms, Afro-Diasporic popular musics, popular culture, public humanities, equitable scholarship | |
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Christoph' McFadden Graduate School Student christoph.mcfadden@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
African American gospel traditions, history of the black church, 20th and 21st century popular music, celebrity studies, media studies, black theology | |
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Jessie Modi jessica.modi@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
20th/21st-century African American and black diasporic literature; poetry and poetics; history of the book; Marxism; media studies; creative writing | |
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Lucia Olubunmi Momoh luciaolubunmi.momoh@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) Website (link is external) |
Portraiture, contemporary art, critical theory, the long nineteenth century, the Haitian Revolution, the Caribbean, the US South, New Orleans | |
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Jeania Ree Moore jeaniaree.moore@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Religious Studies; Theology; Black Studies; Popular Romance Studies; Animals and Religion | |
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Tauren Nelson Graduate School Student tauren.nelson@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Second Year PhD Student; African American Studies and Anthropology | |
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Maryam Parhizkar maryam.parhizkar@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) Website (link is external) |
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 | |
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Olivia Polk olivia.polk@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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 | |
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Katherine Ponds katherine.ponds@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Performance Studies; American Studies; Classical Reception Studies; African-American Literature | |
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Yasmina Price yasmina.price@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Afro-Diasporic Cinema, affect and flesh, Black Marxism, anti-colonialism | |
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Jocelyn Proietti jocelyn.proietti@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Visual art, literature, cultural history, and black feminist performances of self | |
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James Ramsey Graduate School Student james.ramsey@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Teanu Reid teanu.reid@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
17th and 18th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Economic History | |
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Jas Riley jas.riley@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Trans Studies, and Religious Studies. | |
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Maurice Rippel maurice.rippel@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Race, Gender; African Diaspora; Citizenship; Education; Multimodal Ethnography | |
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Gabriel Rivera Cotto Graduate School Student gabriel.riveracotto@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
18th and 19th-century Puerto Rican History, Caribbean History and Literature, Slavery and Emancipation | |
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Joshua Ro Graduate School Student joshua.ro@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Ben Slightom ben.slightom@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) Website (link is external) |
Political Anthropology, Afro-pessimism, Post-Industrial Landscapes, Urban Dispossession, and the Racialized Production of the Underclass | |
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Asya Taylor Graduate School Student asya.taylor@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Babette Thomas An artist, radio producer and doctoral student in the departments of American and African-American Studies babette.thomas@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black radio history; public humanities; sound studies; radio studies; media studies; new media studies; Black feminist theory; affect theory | |
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Taylor Thompson Graduate School Student taylor.thompson.twt9@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black Feminism, Black Theories, Oral Histories, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies | |
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Christopher Valentine Graduate School Student christopher.valentine@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black Queer Studies, Black Feminism, Archival Studies, HIV/AIDS Scholarship | |
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Devin Williams Graduate School Student devin.williams@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black Studies, Critical University Studies, Theories of Knowledge and Power, Disciplinarity and Difference, Social and Institutional Movements | |
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Connor Williams connor.williams@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
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Nala Williams nala.williams@yale.edu (link sends e-mail) |
Black feminist theory, Black feminist geographies, Black studies, critical race theory, alter/native anthropology |
Jonathan Howard
Director of Graduate Studies
jonathan.d.howard@yale.edu (link sends e-mail)
Naomi McWilliams
Academic Support Assistant (Registrar)
203-432-1170
naomi.mcwilliams@yale.edu (link sends e-mail)
Graduate Student Liaisons
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Kristine Guillaume (link sends e-mail) Devin Williams (link sends e-mail)