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
	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		Maroon Studies; Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black diasporic literature; Archival Studies; Black radical movement histories
	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
	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.
	Sam Jones Graduate School Student sam.jones@yale.edu		Black Europe; Black transnationalism; African-American travel, particularly in Europe; postcolonial theory; memory studies
	Micah Jones micah.jones@yale.edu		African American History; Southern History; Black Women’s History, Social Movement History, History of Consumption
	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