Crystal Feimster

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Associate Professor African American Studies, American Studies and History
Office: 
81 Wall St
Phone: 
203-436-3563
Fields of interest: 

African American studies; racial and sexual violence

Bio: 

Crystal Feimster, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000, is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies. Feimster’s academic focus is racial and sexual violence; currently, she is completing a project on rape during the American Civil War. Her book, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, focuses on two women journalists, Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.

Geography: 
US