Connor Jenkins
Research interests:
Race and Sexuality in US Legal History, History of the American South, Carceral and Surveillance Studies, Black Feminist and Queer Theory
Bio:
Connor Jenkins (he/him) is a first-year student in Black Studies and History. He studies the roles of slavery, sexuality, and the law in 19th-century American racial formation. A Dean’s Emerging Scholar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he hopes to focus on the rural American South to understand the afterlives of slavery. Before Yale, he worked as a paralegal for the Criminal Appeals Bureau at The Legal Aid Society in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2022 from Brown University in History and Africana Studies.