Education
M.A. Fordham University, International Politics (1982)
Ph.D. Fordham University, Political Philosophy (1987)
About
Political theory
Human rights
Antiblackness and genocide
Feminisms
Abolitionisms
Courses
PSCI 210/AFR 210/AMST 210/INTR 210/WGSS 210 SEM
Culture and Incarceration (not offered 2026/27)INTR 219/AFR 217/AMST 217/LEAD 219/PSCI 219/WGSS 219 TUT
Women and Girls in (Inter)National Politics (not offered 2026/27)INTR 300/PSCI 300/WGSS 316 SEM
Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Critics (not offered 2026/27)INTR 301/AFR 300/REL 323 SEM
Liberation Theology: Martin Luther King, Pauline Murray, Cornel West, James Cone (not offered 2026/27)INTR 320/AMST 308/AFR 320/WGSS 320/PSCI 376 TUT
Angela Davis and Abolition (not offered 2026/27)INTR 322/PSCI 313/AFR 322/AMST 322 SEM
Race, Culture, Incarceration (not offered 2026/27)INTR 341/AFR 340/PHIL 341/PSCI 373 SEM
Black Marxism: Political Theory and Anti-Colonialism (not offered 2026/27)INTR 400/AFR 372/PSCI 379/AMST 400/GBST 400 SEM
Cuba, US, Africa, and Resistance to Black Enslavement, 1791-1991 (not offered 2026/27)Scholarship/Creative Work
Transcending the Talented Tenth
Resisting State Violence
Seeking the ‘Beloved Community’
Editor: The Angela Y. Davis Reader
Co-editor: The Black Feminist Reader
Anthologies on radical politics and abolitionism include:
The New Abolitionists
Imprisoned Intellectuals
Warfare in the American Homeland
Current Committees
- Committee on Diversity and Community
About
Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of Resisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Transcending the Talented Tenth and Seeking the Beloved Community. James has published numerous articles on: political theory, police, prison and slavery abolition; radicalizing feminisms; diasporic anti-black racism; and US politics; and writes on the Captive Maternal through the lens of “The Womb of Western Theory.” Creator of the digital Harriet Tubman Literary Circle at UT Austin https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/7828, James is editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals;Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and co-editor of the Black Feminist Reader. James’s most recent books include: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the Afterlife of Erica Garner.