Current Graduate Students

Status
Minali Aggarwal's picture Minali Aggarwal
Graduate School Student
minali.aggarwal@yale.edu
Kaelyn Apple's picture Kaelyn Apple
kaelyn.apple@yale.edu
Black British History, Motherhood, Body Politics, Racial Injustice, and Early Modern Legal History
Hamzah Baig's picture Hamzah Baig
hamzah.baig@yale.edu
Middle East and North Africa
Jorge Banuelos's picture Jorge Banuelos
Graduate School Student
jorge.banuelos@yale.edu
Ruthie Block's picture Ruthie Block
ruthie.block@yale.edu
Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black Diasporic Literature; Black Feminist Archival Studies; Black Print Culture
zoe blount's picture zoe blount
zoe.blount@yale.edu
Myles Bonadie's picture Myles Bonadie
myles.bonadie@yale.edu
Tyler Campbell's picture 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
Christina Cano's picture Christina Cano
Graduate School Student
christina.cano@yale.edu
Yohely Comprés's picture Yohely Comprés
Graduate School Student
yohely.compreshenriquez@yale.edu
Shefali Gauri Das's picture Shefali Gauri Das
shefali.das@yale.edu
Racial Capitalism, Policing, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, State Violence
Tyler Diaz's picture Tyler Diaz
tyler.diaz@yale.edu
Elizabeth Durrant's picture 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
Naomi Amenu-Fesseha's picture Naomi Amenu-Fesseha
Graduate School Student
naomi.fesseha@yale.edu
Niara Foster's picture Niara Foster
Graduate School Student
niara.foster@yale.edu
Sokeyra Francisco's picture Sokeyra Francisco
Graduate School Student
sokeyra.francisco@yale.edu
Endiya Griffin's picture Endiya Griffin
endiya.griffin@yale.edu
Kristine Guillaume's picture Kristine Guillaume
kristine.guillaume@yale.edu
20th and 21st century African American and Black diasporic literature, prison writing, Black political thought, life-writing
Rachael Hatchett's picture Rachael Hatchett
Graduate School Student
rachael.hatchett@yale.edu
Gabrielle Hill's picture 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's picture 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's picture Josie Hodson
josie.hodson@yale.edu
African Diasporic Art; Modern; Contemporary; African American Art
Makedah Hughes's picture Makedah Hughes
Graduate School Student
makedah.hughes@yale.edu
Connor Jenkins's picture Connor Jenkins
connor.jenkins@yale.edu
Sam Jones's picture Sam Jones
Graduate School Student
sam.jones@yale.edu
Black Europe; Black transnationalism; African-American travel, particularly in Europe; postcolonial theory; memory studies
Arabella Katz's picture Arabella Katz
Graduate School Student
arabella.katz@yale.edu
Sophia Lindner's picture Sophia Lindner
sophia.lindner@yale.edu
Race and racial ideology, culture and media, mechanisms of racial stratification
Phill M .Campbell's picture Phill M .Campbell
phill.mccoy-campbell@yale.edu
Jathan Martin's picture 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's picture 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's picture 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
Brooklyn Northcross's picture Brooklyn Northcross
brooklyn.northcross@yale.edu
Ozichi Okorom's picture Ozichi Okorom
ozichi.okorom@yale.edu
Katherine Ponds's picture Katherine Ponds
katherine.ponds@yale.edu
Performance Studies; American Studies; Classical Reception Studies; African-American Literature
Yasmina Price's picture Yasmina Price

yasmina.price@yale.edu
Afro-Diasporic Cinema, affect and flesh, Black Marxism, anti-colonialism
Jocelyn Proietti's picture Jocelyn Proietti
jocelyn.proietti@yale.edu
Visual art, literature, cultural history, and black feminist performances of self
James Ramsey's picture James Ramsey
Graduate School Student
james.ramsey@yale.edu
Teanu Reid's picture Teanu Reid
teanu.reid@yale.edu
17th and 18th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Economic History
Maurice Rippel's picture Maurice Rippel
maurice.rippel@yale.edu
Race, Gender; African Diaspora; Citizenship; Education; Multimodal Ethnography
Gabriel Rivera Cotto's picture Gabriel Rivera Cotto
Graduate School Student
gabriel.riveracotto@yale.edu
18th and 19th-century Puerto Rican History, Caribbean History and Literature, Slavery and Emancipation
Joshua Ro's picture Joshua Ro
Graduate School Student
joshua.ro@yale.edu
Asya Taylor's picture Asya Taylor
Graduate School Student
asya.taylor@yale.edu
Babette Thomas's picture 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
Taylor Thompson's picture Taylor Thompson
Graduate School Student
taylor.thompson.twt9@yale.edu
Black Feminism, Black Theories, Oral Histories, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies
Christopher Valentine's picture Christopher Valentine
Graduate School Student
christopher.valentine@yale.edu
Black Queer Studies, Black Feminism, Archival Studies, HIV/AIDS Scholarship
Devin Williams's picture 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's picture Connor Williams
connor.williams@yale.edu

Daphne Brooks
Director of Graduate Studies
daphne.brooks@yale.edu

Naomi McWilliams
Academic Support Assistant (Registrar)
203-432-1170
naomi.mcwilliams@yale.edu

Graduate Student Liaisons
Speak with a student about the program
Asya Taylor   Gabrielle Hill