Ferentz Lafargue

Ferentz Lafargue is an Associate Dean of Students in Yale College and  Director Mellon Mays and Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowship Programs at Yale University. Dean Lafargue earned his PhD in African American and American Studies here at Yale and his teaching on nineteenth and post-twentieth century African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture. He is the author of Songs in the Key of My Life.  His writing has appeared in such venues as 215 Magazine(link is external), Americas Quarterly(link is external), The Huffington Post(link is external), Next American City(link is external), Social Science Research Council(link is external) and Social Text: Periscope(link is external). He is a 2020 recipient of the Linda Lorimer Award which celebrates Yale staff members who embody the university’s spirit of leadership, innovation, collaboration, and excellence.