Roderick Ferguson

William Roberston Coe Professor of WGSS, and Professor of American Studies and African American Studies; Chair of WGSS

William L. Harkness Hall, Room 318 -- 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511

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Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & African American Studies. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004). He is the co-editor with Grace Hong of the anthology Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University, 2011). He is also co-editor with Erica Edwards and Jeffrey Ogbar of Keywords of African American Studies (NYU, 2018). He is currently working on two monographs—The Arts of Black Studies and The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora.

Ferguson’s teaching interests include the politics of culture, women of color feminism, the study of race, critical university studies, queer social movements, and social theory.

Department:

FASGSS Womens,Gender and Sexuality Studies