Current Graduate Students
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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 |
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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 | ||
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 andie.berry@yale.edu |
20th/21st century African American dramatic literature, theater history; performance studies; speculation and the speculative; trauma studies. | ||
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 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 | ||
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 shefali.das@yale.edu |
Racial Capitalism, Policing, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, State Violence | ||
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 |
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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 | ||
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 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 | ||
Kassidi Jones kassidi.jones@yale.edu |
19th-Century African American Ecopoetics and Georgia Douglas Johnson. | ||
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 | ||
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 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. | ||
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 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 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 | ||
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 jeaniaree.moore@yale.edu |
Religious Studies; Theology; Black Studies; Popular Romance Studies; Animals and Religion | ||
Tauren Nelson Graduate School Student tauren.nelson@yale.edu |
Second Year PhD Student; African American Studies and Anthropology | ||
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 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 | ||
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 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. | ||
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 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 Graduate School Student taylor.thompson.twt9@yale.edu |
Black Feminism, Black Theories, Oral Histories, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies | ||
Christopher Valentine Graduate School Student christopher.valentine@yale.edu |
Black Queer Studies, Black Feminism, Archival Studies, HIV/AIDS Scholarship | ||
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 |
Black Studies, Critical University Studies, Theories of Knowledge and Power, Disciplinarity and Difference, Social and Institutional Movements | ||
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