zoe blount

• Black feminist carceral studies, 20th century social movements, queer theory, abolitionist thought, archival study
• B.A. in African American Studies, minor in Race & the Law
• Combined PhD with History

zoe blount is a first year doctoral student in the Black Studies and History combined departments at Yale University. zoe earned a B.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2025. Her honors thesis, advised by Dr. Nikki Jones and Professor Micah Khater, examined how Black feminist refusal challenged, undermined, and reshaped carceral logics during the 1960s to the 1980s in the Deep South. While at Yale, zoe aims to further explore incarcerated Black women’s histories of resistance against the prison system. In particular, she hopes to engage with archives that showcase how queer Black people navigated carcerality in the late twentieth century.