Vanessa Agard-Jones
Vanessa Agard-Jones is a doctoral candidate in the joint program in Anthropology and French Studies at New York University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at Yale University, a Master of Arts degree in African American Studies at Columbia University, and a second Master of Arts degree in French Studies at New York University. A National Science Foundation Research Fellow, her dissertation project focuses on sexual politics in the French Caribbean. With noted historian Manning Marable, she is editor of the volume Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and with anthropologists Dana-Ain Davis and Shaka McGlotten she is co-editor of a double issue of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (Summer/Fall 2009) on black genders and sexualities. Outside of academia, Vanessa is a former Board Chair and continued supporter of New York City's Audre Lorde Project.
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