Connor Jenkins
Race and Sexuality in US Legal History, History of the American South, Carceral and Surveillance Studies, Black Feminist and Queer Theory
Connor Jenkins (he/him) is a doctoral student in Black Studies and History and a certificate student in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His research examines the incidence and function of non-procreative and non-normative sexual violence in American slavery. A Dean’s Emerging Scholar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he hopes to historicize modern categories of sexuality by focusing on slavery and its afterlives in and beyond the American South. Before coming to Yale, he worked as a paralegal for the Criminal Appeals Bureau at The Legal Aid Society in New York City. A North Carolina native, he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2022 from Brown University in History and Africana Studies.